Thank you Cypher. This is what they post
Those of you saying chocolate is toxic - PLEASE take a moment to reference the following scientific sources for the information about how chocolate is not toxic. As in peer-reviewed, scientific studies. Google searches are not scientific evidence.
Now for the science:
Chocolate is NOT toxic for hamsters. Here is my proof:
"Hamsters and mice were much more resistant to theobromine than were rats. A decrease in growth and in thymic weights occurred only at the highest dose levels of theobromine and testicular and thymic changes were completely absent in hamsters. "
Short-term effects of graded levels of theobromine in laboratory rodents - ScienceDirect "...more resistant than rats, while hamsters were almost completely
resistant to the effects of high doses of theobromine (Tarka et al., 1979)."
Effects of short-term and long-term theobromine administration to male dogs - ScienceDirect
This one studies the issue in hamsters-
Comparative theobromine metabolism in five mammalian species. | Drug Metabolism & Disposition
And this one says-
"Theobromine shows moderate acute toxicity and the dog is more susceptible than rodents."
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/defa...uments/725.pdf