I know that this is a 2 year old thread and all, but cocoa isn't caffeine-free in the powder ordinarily made for consumers. It has low levels of caffeine, yes, but not caffeine-free. I think that you might be implying that caffeine is added to the powder to raise the low caffeine content to substantial levels for supplementation use as chocamine.
At least that's what I gather because it seems that all the chocamine powder I just received is - is cocoa powder with white bits of something in it. I thought chocamine was supposed to be a purified cocoa before I bought it, but honestly the only difference between it and the cocoa powder I'd been taking for months prior was course granules of white bits strewn about what tasted like ordinary unsweetened cocoa. After this first and only bottle of chocamine is consumed, then I'm going back to cocoa powder - same thing as far as I can tell taste-wise and efficacy-wise.
Who knows, maybe the thread starter actually received a genuine cocoa extract over 2 years ago and was trying to voice his complaints about the difference... Seriously, it's like they took caffeine tabs and put them in a blender, then bought some Hersheys cocoa powder and mixed the two.
Extracts don't have course off color granules strewn about in the powder, and they should taste different than the untreated plant material that it was made from because the unwanted materials that count towards the overall flavor/texture should have been removed!! |