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What is Guarana?

30 Sep 2021

The Amazon is a dangerous place, with jaguars, anacondas and piranhas in constant search for their next meal, but you would not have anything to fear from guarana.聽It isn鈥檛 a predator, it鈥檚 a woody...

My Dog Ate Chocolate and He Was Fine, so What鈥檚 the Big Deal?

23 Aug 2019

If you ask a dog owner what dogs cannot eat, they鈥檒l list some foods like onions, garlic, rhubarb, grapes and chocolate. (As an aside, if they say grains, don鈥檛 listen to them.) Dogs' inability to...

Should we be worried about theobromine in chocolate?

20 Mar 2017

Only if you are a dog. Theobromine was first isolated from cacao beans back in 1841, which explains the name. Cacao beans grow on a tree named Theobroma cacao in 1753 by the Swedish naturalist...

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