Health and Medicine Does chocolate help you sleep?

[Stanthropical]

I've read somewhere that chocolate helps people sleep, which makes no sense, because chocolate contains caffeine and other stimulants—and chocolate generally has sugar added to it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/health/13real.html

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https://www.confectionerynews.com/Article/2021/04/02/The-benefits-of-chocolate-as-a-sleep-aid

Bonus:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-health-benefits-dark-chocolate

What's your experience?

 

[Siren23]

Chocolate produces serotonin. Which boosts brain positivity. Positive brain waves= a good night sleep. An increase in serotonin can also lead to an increase in adenosine activity in certain parts of our brains, bringing our overall level of adenosine up to a place where we're feeling sleepy.

In addition to that, it contains trytophan. The same neurotransmitter that causes that Thanksgiving turkey coma.


So yes. Chocolate helps you sleep.

 

[J0DIE]

Dunno but it sure tastes good

 

[SexyAsianBitch]

Chocolate produces serotonin. Which boosts brain positivity. Positive brain waves= a good night sleep. An increase in serotonin can also lead to an increase in adenosine activity in certain parts of our brains, bringing our overall level of adenosine up to a place where we're feeling sleepy.

In addition to that, it contains trytophan. The same neurotransmitter that causes that Thanksgiving turkey coma.


So yes. Chocolate helps you sleep.

while you come to the correct answer you have come to it incorrectly.

Eating turkey alone has such small amounts of tryptophan to help you sleep. Tryptophan supplements that help people sleep come in 5 gram pills. By comparison two servings of turkey only contains 410 milligrams of tryptophan. So in order to actually fall asleep because of turkey you will need to eat 20 servings of turkey just to equal one supplement pill.



Chocolate containing 85 percent cocoa has the most serotonin, with 2.9 micrograms per gram, and chocolate containing 70 to 85 percent cocoa has the most of the serotonin precursor L-tryptophan, with 13.3 micrograms per gram, according to a study published in "Journal of Chromatography A" in April 2012. Choose this type of chocolate if you are seeking health benefits from serotonin.

According to the New York Times chocolate does not help you fall asleep because of caffeine.


Chocolate contains caffeine, as many people know, but in varying amounts depending on the type. A 1.5-ounce Hershey’s milk chocolate bar, for example, contains nine milligrams, about three times as much caffeine as a cup of decaffeinated coffee. But a dark chocolate Hershey's bar has far more: about 30 milligrams. That is the same as a cup of instant tea, and slightly less than a typical cup of brewed tea, about 40 milligrams

If you look at a large, 3.5-ounce bar of very dark chocolate (70-85% cocoa), you'll find around 80 milligrams of caffeine. A similar bar of plain milk chocolate averages 20 milligrams of caffeine.

So I would say that is false that chocolate makes you sleep.

https://www.healthline.com/health/why-turkey-make-you-sleepy#other-contributors

https://legacychocolates.com/about-...buzz-caffeine-facts-about-chocolate-vs-coffee

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/health/13real.html