How much chocolate does it take to kills a human?!
Question:
How much chocolate does it take to kills a human?
i heard it on QI, i just cant rem how much
Answers:
The two toxic substances in Chocolate are Caffeine and Theobromine.
LD50 - Theobromine ~ 1000 mg/kg
LD50 - Caffeine ~ 175 mg/kg
Theobromine 1.3% in chocolate
Caffeine 0.02% in chocolate
Therefore Theobromine is the most dangerous toxin in chocolate.
Given an average weight of a human of 80kg
LD50 theobromine = 80,000 mg
6.15 Kg of chocolate would kill half of people of average weight
Those massive bars of cadburys dairy milk are 200g - so approx 31 of those would have a 50% chance of killing you of theobromine poisoning if you are of average weight.