More caffeine than I expected.

Hey hvedra! Welcome to my world!lol I do drink way too much caffeine and know what that feels like! So for you to not be used to caffeine and eating chocolate you must be super sensitive to it! I don't ever think about my reaction to eating chocolate since I drink diet coke just about 24/7 anyway! But, not being used to caffeine at all I can definitely see it having that kind of affect on the two of you! So, I guess the next time you want to have a nice "sugar high" you should start it a bit earlier in the day! I hope you were able to "cope" today without feeling to sleep deprived!

Does that go for chocolate ice cream too? I don't eat that much candy, but ice cream is a different story.

yep. fact chocolate sometimes has MORE caffiene in it than coffee/tea. never understood why it was HORRIBLE to give kids coffee because of "alll the caffiene" but it was perfectly acceptable to give them hot chocolate lol

I must be ammune to caffeine. I can drink or eat anything with caffeine and fall asleep during and/or after intaking it. Seems to have no affect on me what so ever. But if i dont get it i get haedaches. Im trying to break the habit or at least cut way down.

oh,oh,oh ,oh ......i really didn't reasise that the chocolate including so much caffeine.on,my god! 0 and i drinked so much caffeine unconsciously. after saw the dicsussion, i will eat chocolate as less as possible. especially for my baby. thanks for your topic.

I always eat chocolate before sleeping, I wanna gain weight, but it never work and affact my sleep

We are accustomed to caffeine, so when we eat one Dove Promise at bed time it does not affect us. On the other hand, I ate a chocolate energy or power bar instead of supper one night and it must have had a lot of caffeine, as I did not sleep.

Wow.. I didn't realise that chocolate would do that! As kids me and my sister used to drink that stuff before bedtime. But perhaps kids are not so effected by caffeine as adults. I stopped drinking coffee because I was a bit of an addict and switched to tea. I drink the caffeine-free tea after lunchtime, but ordinary first thing in the morning. _Derek

You are so right because the other day I made a dessert and I put 3 to four big spoons of organic cocoa in it and wow I could not sleep either. I guess it served me right for having had it so late at night but I had no clue that it would just keep me up all night. Wow it was like a coffee hit. So people seriously should be warned or made at least aware.

I have always heard that but i have never thought eating chocolate affected me that way.

The better the chocolate the more the caffiene. I would think dark would have more but I don't know that for a fact. I would still enjoy it just not so late in the eveing. I love chocolate but am rather picky. I have never noticed a problem like what you describe and I eat it late in the evenings too. I just don't care for the dark.

This is why I have only one piece a day. I buy the big bar of Hersey's Special Dark Chocolate and it last for about a week or more. I love dark chocolate and the great thing about it, that its good for you but in moderation like everything else.

I am a lover of chocolates. Luckily, I am not affected by the caffeine. I can still sleep soundly after having one.

I know its very stimulating, its can raise your mood. I am big fans of a chocolate I ate it almost every day, its really help sometime when you feel blue. I realize its contain caffeine but I think it not more than coffee. I say this because when I drink a cup of coffee I will get dizzy but if I eat a bar of chocolate I will not feel dizzy.