{"id":3977,"date":"2013-12-09T12:51:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2022-10-21T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T20:44:01","slug":"theres-chocolate-in-my-toothpaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/chocolate-news\/theres-chocolate-in-my-toothpaste\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s chocolate in my toothpaste"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or to be more exact, there\u2019s theobromine in that $12 tube of toothpaste.\u00a0Theobromine occurs naturally in cacao; it gives chocolate its bitter taste. More importantly, it\u2019s been found to offer a lot of health benefits, one of which is that it\u2019s better than fluoride in healing tooth enamel, according to a recent study.<\/a><\/p>\n

Add to that the important fact that it is not toxic like fluoride, and it looks like it might be time to replace your regular toothpaste with toothpaste made from chocolate.<\/p>\n

Chocolate in the bathroom<\/h2>\n

Theodent fluoride-free toothpaste with Rennou (that\u2019s their branded theobromine extract) is available through their website<\/a> or at Whole Foods Stores nationwide. That\u2019s where we found ours. Unfortunately, while cacao is used in the making of Theodent, it doesn\u2019t taste like chocolate \u2014 instead it\u2019s got a typically minty toothpaste taste (with a little bit of a floral perfume, almost soapy undertone).<\/p>\n

Theodent also comes in a higher-strength version ($100 a tube), only available through dentists or their website, and a version aimed at kids that is chocolate flavored. We didn\u2019t find the kids\u2019 version at our Whole Foods, but if anyone has tried it, I\u2019d love to hear a report. It seems like an awesome idea to me: Instead of worrying about your kids accidentally ingesting toxic fluoride when doing what they are supposed to, you might have to worry about them sneaking into the bathroom and eating all the expensive toothpaste in the house.<\/p>\n

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So pretty, you will want to leave this toothpaste tube on the sink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lather, rinse, repeat<\/h2>\n

Besides coming in the prettiest tube I\u2019ve ever seen toothpaste in, Theodent has another unique aspect: It\u2019s the only toothpaste I know of that recommends the tooth brushing version of shampooing: brush your teeth once with Theodent to remove food particles, rinse, then brush with Theodent again for the whitening\/enamel hardening effects.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a nice, unusual chocolate-themed gift this year for anyone on your list, Theodent might be just the thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chocolate toothpaste: what a concept!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,169,50],"tags":[201,125,54,411,462,412],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chocolate-news","category-reviews","category-vitamin-ch","tag-gifts","tag-health","tag-theobromine","tag-theodent","tag-toothpaste","tag-whole-foods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35638,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/35638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}