Ohh Theobromine how much I love you! You are there to comfort me when I am stressed and be my lunch buddy. I look forward seeing you every single day. You might think that I am talking about a person but actually, theobromine is a methylxanthines that is found in cocoa products, tea plant, and in kola nut. It is a bitter alkaloid with a molecular formula of C7H8N4O2 it is caffeine's cousin but has a mild affect to the human body. Theobromine in a way relaxes and calms the human body. Thus it can increase urine production slightly as well as it loosens up the smooth muscles the bronchi in the lungs. It also excite the nervous and cardiac system by reducing blood pressure and the use vasodilatation in the body.
The
first encounter of theobromine was in 1841 in cacao beans by Russian chemist
Alexander Woskresensky. Soon a man by the name of Hermann Emil Fischer synthesized
theobromine from xanthine.
Additionally,
chocolate can vary in different amounts of theobromine. For example, dark
chocolate has a higher level of theobromine. Meanwhile, most milk chocolate has
a low amount of theobromine. You can say that I do love theobromine because I
am a dark chocolate fanatic.
Although
Theobromine in chocolate products hardly harm humans, it can greatly affect
domestic animals. Domestic animals such as dogs can have serious affects to the
heart, central nervous system, and kidneys. This is caused because animal
metabolize theobromine more slower than humans. Therefore think twice when
feeding your pets something that can be tasty and fulfilling to you, but can be
harmful to your pet.
http://chemistry.about.com/od/factsstructures/a/theobromine-chemistry.htm
https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Theobromine.html
http://www.chocolate.org/articles/health-benefits-of-chocolate.html
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00734/dogs-poisoned-404_734397c.jpg
http://wholespice.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/cocoabean3.jpg
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