Hey everybody, Caffeine Man here, today we're gonna be going over how much
caffeine is in chocolate, as well as doing a product review on caffeinated
chocolate. What?!?! You heard me right, caffeinated chocolate. A company called
Awake put extra caffeine in chocolate and needless to say I'm excited to go
over it. I'm also going to be going over how much caffeine is in Awake chocolate
as well as how much caffeine is in regular chocolate, all coming right up!
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Hello again everybody and thanks for joining me! Today we're gonna be going
over how much caffeine is in chocolate. Not only that but I'm also going to do a
product review on a company called Awake chocolate. Love the name by the way.
Very appropriate. I'll tell you a little bit about the company, let you know what
flavors they have and then we're gonna try them out to see if they actually
taste like chocolate, without that bitter taste like most chocolates with caffeine
have. I'll also include a coupon code at the end of the review, in case you want to
try them out. Since this is sort of a combo video, if you're here just to find
out how much caffeine is in regular chocolate, feel free to fast forward to
the timestamp listed below. You'll find all your information there. But if you
want to find out more about caffeinated chocolate, which I'm pretty sure you do!
It starts right now! And don't forget if you want stay
informed on all things caffeine related hit the subscribe button, I post new videos every Tuesday night.
Awake started selling it's energy amped chocolate in 2012 in Canada.
Since then, this company has had massive growth in its industry
and can be found in more than 20,000 locations across North America.
They started out hitting the college scene pretty hard, to try and get it's target
audience. Additional growth of the company happened when they employed a
new marketing strategy. I mean, they're still in colleges all over the place but
they also decided to purchase countertop space right near the register.
And it worked out great for them, because guess where I found all these?
I mean really, why pay for aisle shelf space when you can be put right next to the register?
Then again that probably cost extra too.
Anyway it comes in four different flavors: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, peanut butter and caramel.
Carmel? Caramel? Carmel?
It's caramel people! CA - RA - MEL.
A full-size bar has 101 milligrams of caffeine in it, therefore they're able to say that it
has about the same amount of caffeine as an average cup of coffee.
An average cup of coffee has between 80 and 120 milligrams of caffeine and it
varies widely based on brand name and where you get it. In today's caffeinated
chocolate product review, I'll be going over the bite sized ones which have 50
milligrams of caffeine in them. So why add caffeine to chocolate? Well there's a
lot of people out there... Well, about 30% or so, that don't actually like
coffee, but they still want to get their caffeine fix and tea just doesn't have
enough for them. Well, this candy bar can help out. I mean, also what's better than
chocolate? Caffeinated chocolate!
Overall, Awake is one of the most well known caffeinated chocolate companies out there
and that being said, it's still not widely known about. But what's one of the key components to its success?
Supposedly, it tastes just like regular milk chocolate without the bitter aftertaste
that most caffeinated chocolates have. Most caffeinated chocolate companies have
struggled to overcome this obstacle. Awake chocolate says they have. So let's
go ahead and see if it's true! First we're going to start out with the milk chocolate.
It's got a cute little owl on there.
it's very thick.
Very good! Tastes just like milk chocolate!
and I can't taste any caffeine whatsoever.
Another bite.
Wow! That... that's good! It makes me wish I'd bought the whole
full-size candy bar. Full sized candy bars, I'm coming your way. This is very good.
No caffeine aftertaste, full of caffeine in it but it tastes delicious! You got to get these.
Next up we'll try the dark chocolate I'm not a huge fan of
dark chocolate but I'm sure this is gonna taste delicious.
Once again it's pretty thick so you get a good bite out of it.
And it's a good dark chocolate. I've tasted stronger dark chocolates, which is
what I don't really like, but this is a... this is more of a lighter dark chocolate
flavor? You definitely know it's dark chocolate, but it's not too heavy, which
is very interesting because dark chocolate does taste a little more
bitter than milk chocolate, so you figured they'd get away with more of a bitter
taste but somehow it tastes just like dark chocolate without that bitter
caffeine aftertaste. It's really good.
Next up let's try the caramel. Im kind if excited. I like caramel and chocolate.
MMMMmmmmmm... Wow!!! That's good!
MMMmm ... I mean the closest relation I can say is like a
Caramello bar. This is Awake chocolate, not Caramello, but in comparison I'd buy
the Awake chocolate over Caramello any day.
I'm just gonna finish it up.
I mean, wow! These things are delicious. I should just do chocolate reviews. I might
have to rethink my channel. Last up is the peanut butter.
mmm that's good.
Obviously I need to relate it to Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and it's not exactly
like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. If I put them next to each other they'd be
very, very, very close but I might choose Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, but then again
this has caffeine.... very good.
Now that I had the second bite, I have to admit it doesn't taste exactly like that
peanut butter candy flavor. You know how the Reese's peanut butter
has a little bit of grit to it? This actually tastes more like real peanut
butter. I always differentiate real peanut butter with the candy flavored
peanut butter. The peanut butter in candy always tasted different. It didn't
actually taste like real peanut butter... THIS tastes more like real peanut butter
than the Reese's does, which now makes me like it a little bit more than the Reese's.
Now for all those creative people out there who like to think
outside the box, I actually did a review on caffeine water and I went over all the
other ways that you could use caffeine water. If you're interested in that I'll
include a card above. The reason why I say that is, you can think outside the
box with these chocolates as well. Do you want to make a cup of coffee into a
chocolate latte? Just add Awake chocolate.
Do you want to make your chocolate chip cookies just a little more energized? Well go ahead and add some Awake chocolate.
How about your brownies? Do you want your brownies to have just a little more buzz to them?
Well, add some a weak chocolate AND some caffeinated water!
Or are you just going camping and you want to be able to stay awake for all those campfire stories
at the end of the night? Well just make your Smores with Awake chocolate and that should help.
So, want to try them out? I'll include a link in the description box below that will take
you to their website and when you check out use coupon code Caffeine Man 15.
That's Caffeineman, all one word, a space, 15 and you'll receive 15% off your entire purchase.
Personally I picked these up at a local store called Newsbreak in
Swansea Massachusetts, if you're in the area. It's actually a pretty amazing
store. They got all sorts of magazines, like magazines I didn't even know existed.
They had magazines on coffee and tea, not that you're interested in that but if you are
they had it and if you're interested in anything else they have magazines on it.
They also have sports cards and non-trading sports cards so if you're
looking to pick up some magic cards or even some sports cards you can go there.
They'll have them. They have comic books, regular books, they have all sorts
of stuff. If it's made out of paper, I think they have it. They just got tons of stuff.
Actually, come to think of it, I'm just going to include a link down below if
you want to go check them out, feel free to check them out.
So how much caffeine is in chocolate? In general, chocolate is naturally caffeinated because
it comes from the cocoa bean, but there's not much caffeine in it. Chocolate also
has theobromine in it which is sometimes been known as caffeine's cousin. Being
related to caffeine, it acts as a mild stimulant in the body and although I
could do a whole video just on theobromine, I'm Caffeine Man so I have
to try and stay in focus on caffeine. So how much caffeine is in chocolate? Your
average milk chocolate bar is gonna have between nine and ten milligrams of
caffeine in it, plus or minus one here they're based on a lot of other factors.
What are those other factors? Well basically how much milk chocolate
is in it. Plenty of candy bars have other things like caramel, peanuts, nouget, therefore
a full milk chocolate bar will have more caffeine in it then, let's say,
a Twix. So how much caffeine is in those other chocolate bars? Almond Joy, Three
Musketeers, Twix and Milky Way, will all have between three and four milligrams
of caffeine, so not much at all, but there's not really a ton of chocolate in
there either, since a regular milk chocolate bar is gonna have between nine
and ten milligrams in it. Dark chocolate is a little bit trickier. On average, it
has about 12 milligrams of caffeine because it's got more cocoa in it but
this can vary widely depending on the brand. Hershey's has a special dark
chocolate bar that has just about 30 milligrams of caffeine in it and there
are also other companies that have dark chocolate candy bars that range between
25 and 35 milligrams the caffeine in it. Do you wanna know how much caffeine your
favorite candy bar has in it? I'm going to include a link down below to a
website called caffeine Informer. It's who I rely on to get a lot of my
caffeine information and then usually double-check it with the actual company
who makes the product. They are always on the mark. Go ahead and check it out.
And I almost forgot, how much caffeine is in white chocolate? Yeah, trick question.
There isn't actually any real chocolate in white chocolate therefore it's a caffeine free treat.
That's all I got for you! If you want to try out Awake
chocolate i'll include a link in the description box down below to their
website. Just use coupon code Caffeineman 15 to receive 15% off your entire
purchase. That's Caffeineman, all one word, space,
then the number 15. If you want to stay informed on all things caffeine related
feel free to hit the subscribe button. I post new videos every Tuesday night and
hope to see you there. Until then have a great day...
...or night.
I'm just gonna finish it up.
Need to rinse out with something, my goodness.
I'm just surrounded by caffeine everywhere.
Avitae caffeine water.
Looks like I'm washing down with some caffeine water.
90 milligrams. Good stuff.
I'm editing this out anyway so I'm not sure why I'm talking to you. Just keep myself entertained, as usual.