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Is it possible to die from eating too much chocolate? Asking for a friend.

It would take 7,084 Hershey chocolate kisses to get chocolate poisoning
By Claire Maldarelli February 14, 2018


It might give you a stomach ache, but you can safely eat it all.

If you were a kid in the ‘90s, or had a kid in the ‘90s, you probably remember the Matilda scene—the scene—where the loathsome Miss Trunchbull made Bruce Bogtrotter eat an 18-inch chocolate cake in one sitting, in front of his classmates.

The punishment is torturous to watch, and the act is probably illegal. But if this were real life, would Bruce have died? No, he would not have suffered any sort of chocolate toxicity from it. A conservative estimate would have him eating probably only about a pound of pure chocolate. That’s not enough to kill somebody.

https://www.popsci.com/chocolate-theobromine-toxic-amount