Extracting the theobromine from cocoa powder
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 Published On Mar 15, 2017

Theobromine is an interesting molecule and is very similar to caffeine. It appears in a high concentration in cocoa (a small amount of caffeine is also in cocoa).

In this video, I am extracting theobromine from cocoa. In the future, I might prepare cocoa powder from raw cocoa pods.

Link to procedure: https://goo.gl/o7uvc3
Other reference (Chemplayer):    • Video  

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