Ants cannot eat chocolate due to the high amount of cocoa powder and caffeine; this last ingredient is particularly toxic for their small digestive system, mainly because they simply cannot digest it properly like we, humans, can do. Is worth to remember we are used to eating highly processed food, thus meaning the chocolate bars you can buy, for example, on convenience stores is filled with a great variety of chemicals and ingredients in order of making the chocolate more delicious and pleasant to our taste; some stimulants like theobromine, phenylethylamine, and others are added to induce cravings in humans, but they are not suitable for insects, and yes, this includes ants.
For all those reasons, ants can potentially die by merely eating chocolate, and that explains why one of the ants is nervous and why the other is pushing the chocolate aside and is on the verge of tears.
Ants cannot eat chocolate due to the high amount of cocoa powder and caffeine; this last ingredient is particularly toxic for their small digestive system, mainly because they simply cannot digest it properly like we, humans, can do. Is worth to remember we are used to eating highly processed food, thus meaning the chocolate bars you can buy, for example, on convenience stores is filled with a great variety of chemicals and ingredients in order of making the chocolate more delicious and pleasant to our taste; some stimulants like theobromine, phenylethylamine, and others are added to induce cravings in humans, but they are not suitable for insects, and yes, this includes ants.
For all those reasons, ants can potentially die by merely eating chocolate, and that explains why one of the ants is nervous and why the other is pushing the chocolate aside and is on the verge of tears.
Interesting. Thanks.
Pity, though ( if one wants to give them a treat... )
Pity, though ( if one wants to give them a treat... )
I think in this particular comic we shouldn't think so much of them as real ants with the aversion to and intolerance for chocolate that real ants would have. After all, she looks interested in the chocolate to begin with, and the artist has been more than happy to show the ants enjoying human food in the past. Also, that doesn't really seem to fit the "punchline" of the comic. Rather, note the prominent reveal at the very end of the last panel: this chocolate is very pure, 96% cacao. There's a good reason for that reveal: chocolate that pure is bitter as hell.
It's an ant.Let me give them somethingChocolateThey can't eat chocolate
