Does eating chocolate cause acne?

I cannot tell you how many times I have experienced acne directly related to my having eaten chocolate the night before. In fact, I am currently suffering from an outbreak which is what prompted my interest to look up the subject; hence, finding this web site. It could possibly be allergy-related which would explain different reactions with different people.

People with no skin problems will tell you chocolate does not cause acne.

People WITH skin problems will tell you it does.

I have skin problems, and if I eat chocolate I note that my skin problems worsen -- no doubt about it. This is a pattern I have seen many, many times over.

But it might be a food allergy thing, that is, I may be allergic to chocolate. But I don't swell up, but I do get a headache. (MSG gives me a headache too, as does wine, which I think is caused by the sulfites, though it may just be the wine.) So I am very sensitive, especially in the skin. People with better, tougher skin don't have any problem with chocolate.

Choclate doesn't cause acne, it's a proven fact that acne isn't caused directly by what you eat.
BUT..
eating a large amount of chocolate w/o healthy foods also( like eating a chocolate bar FOR dinner, instead of AFTER dinner) is very unhealthy for your body. and it's the same with any foods that arn't healthy.
What happends is your body starts lacking the vitamins and minerals it needs, and therefore your immune system isn't 100%. If you've ever had acne in your life, even just once, it has the full ability to comeback because the bacteria that causes it stays in your skin. With a strong immune system your body has absolutely no problem dealing with the bacteria, but if you start eating junk foods... indirectly yes you will get acne. it's cause and effect.
hope that helped.

For me it does thats why i dont eat it anymore (which sucks cause i love chocolate). I am also tired of hearing that crap about chocalte not causing acne cause it totally does. But i read this article in the paper which said we dont get acne from chocolate but from touching are face after eating greasy food. I dont know if its true but someone should try it and see if thats right.

I'm 36 and can definately say that I have linked chocolate consumption to painful acne breakouts on my back, face and upper neck, etc.

I maintain a healthy lifestyle, work out 7 days a week, drink lots of water, low sugar, low fat but as soon as I eat chocolate, dark or white, I break out and the pimples can be large and painful, may times containing puss and blood>>>

I wish someone could help with this situation as I love chocolate.

I'm tired of reading all the articles regarding the face that chocolate does not cause acne!

I read all this crap about chocolate not causing acne and I can tell you, the studies are soooo incomplete.

Chocolate for MOST people does not cause acne. Some people however ARE allergic to it. I am one of those people. I can prove to anyone, any time that chocolate causes me to break out. I can eat zero grams of fat for 2 weeks, drink lots of water, soak and scrub my face and number of times a day, and I will be perfectly fine for weeks, until I eat one piece of chocolate... then I get at least a couple pimples within 16 hours, guarenteed every time, no exception.

Would the candy industry stop misinforming people already? I know you guys are desperate now that people are on health kicks, but misinformation is just wrong. You guys already caused me enough grief when I had to patch a few hundred servers for your stupid lobby to change the timezone information yet again to allow more people to trick-or-treat during Halloween. Now I have to go crawl the web to fix all the misinformation of yet another topic.

I would be happy to meet with any scientist in Northern California to prove this to you beyond any shadow of doubt.

never heard of it.know for sure tends to put on weight eating chocolates cause i had to stop chocolates for reducing.

No food has been proven to be the cause of acne.Recent research has been done suggest that chocolate boost serotonin in the brain that produces calm effect and stability. Stress can be related to acne outbreaks and chocolate found to relax our body. Thus, chocolate can be used to calm our nerves and can help us to prevent acne outbreaks.

No. This is an old myth. Oil on the face and puberty cause acne. Keeping your hands and face clean can help reduce any incidence of acne.

No iodide does.

Sometimes, but most of the time it doesn't. It might, though, because it depends on the person.

There are some studies (such as at the Harvard School of Public Health) asking whether milk might be a contributor to acne.

E.g., http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18194824

It's always something...

dont know but i know that drinking milk does

I think it can if you eat it all the time or a lot.I think greasy foods dont help with skin completion problems and I do belive it show up we are what we eat in some cases pizza cheese and things fried, pork salt retains water to clog pores and just water is good to clean the skin and sweating and cardo etc.life cycles puberty,periods,stress,genitics,.etc.

They say it doesn't but i like to disagree with that. Many times whereby i've eaten lots of chocolate and the next day i've broken out with acne. I wouldn't say that's a coincident. I can't be that lucky (in my case, unlucky) all the time!

Yes and no, most people don't get acne just from eating some chocolate. However if you are intolerant to some thing in chocolate or you have a poor diet yes you may well end up with spots/acne.

I think too much of it could cause acne. Buf if you eat just a bar, and drink lots of water afterwards, I don't think it would lead to acne (based on my experience).

Yes, but you don't need to stop eating chocolate at all. Just don't eat too much, ok? :)

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No, it does it. http://ezinearticles.com/?Does-Chocolate-Cause-Pimples?&id=5258750

Chocolate does trigger spots, i'm 35 and if i eat chocolate then within 2 days i break out with big PAINFULL spots and my skin turns oily. If i lay off the choc then my skin settles down with just the odd spot but my spots are only painfull after eating chocolate. I think after about 20 years of this cycle of getting spots after eating chocolate then i can say that eating chocolate does give some people like me spots. People that say it does'nt cause spots are talking out of there bum holes.

no its just been proven

I get average acne throughout the year, I don't think any of my face pimples or black heads would be caused by it.....BUT THEN

At Christmas time and easter time I'm given a lot of gooooood creamy quality chocolate. And I can resist but binge on it. EVERY TIME I binge on quality chocolate, I get BLIND pimples. Not more face pimples, but ones behind my ear, or on my shoulder, or even on my bum. They are the painful kind. And I am 99% sure its the chocolate. May be the sugar/milk combo. maybe I'm alergic. I dont know! but it HAPPENS every time I binge. A little here and there doesn't hurt me though.

No but if you have acne and eat chocolate containing cows milk it can make it much worse.
Should avoid dairy products with acne. Take a calcium pill instead if you need.

Yes, it does. I don't know who these people are using for their researches, but they are indeed wrong. I'm 21 and I can tell you that for the past at least 11 years, my acne has been DIRECTLY connected to the amount of choclate consumed.
If I don't eat any for a while, my skin is almost completely clear, maybe a pimple or two, but as soon as I have a couple of pieces of chocolate, I get break outs EVERYWHERE! On my face, back, chest.. it's hard to not notice the corrolation..

I'm a 55-year-old female with three decades of experience on this. YES, oh so definitely YES there is a direct correlation for me. I've wondered, too, if it's some form of allergic reaction. However, acne is the only result after eating chocolate for two days in a row, or even just twice in the same week. I break out in open, painful acne and now with menopause, the painful deep kind that I never had when I was younger. But it all follows any indulgence in chocolate. Like one other writer said, around Christmas and Easter, when chocolate is found just about everywhere (and many people bring their excess into work to get rid of it--creating a constantly present temptation), I suffer the most. I love chocolate, but I can no longer allow myself to eat it more than on a rare occasion. I wish researchers would do a better job of canvassing acne sufferers. We DO know what we're talking about when it comes to how our own bodies react to what we eat.

YES!!
For alot of people including myself. Chocolate can make you break out.
I ate chocolate one night next morning i had breakouts. I Thought to myself na but then a week later i had more chocolate and had breakout the next day. But it various for different people and different skin types

i don't eat chocolate at all but still i have acne for the past six years. moderatley severe for the past 2.
it's not just one food itme that can cause acne. there are a lot of reasons. some say oily skin and puberty cause it (well i have dry skin and i'm 22 now). hormones can be a pretty good reason for acne. its different for every one.
i think spices trigger my acne breakout more than anything else.i believe chilli pepper has the effect on me as chocolate has on lipme001.

well,if you eat alot of junk food,you do i think.

I moved to Ukraine right after it seceded from the Soviet Union. For what it's worth, there were two things I never saw at first: chocolate and acne. All the young people had perfect and beautiful complexions. Now both are everywhere. That doesn't prove anything, but it's a coincidence worth taking into account.

No it does not.

I heard that was a myth. I cant really think of a connection between skin problems and chocolate.

I get average acne throughout the year, I don't think any of my face pimples or black heads would be caused by it.....BUT THEN

At Christmas time and easter time I'm given a lot of gooooood creamy quality chocolate. And I can resist but binge on it. EVERY TIME I binge on quality chocolate, I get BLIND pimples. Not more face pimples, but ones behind my ear, or on my shoulder, or even on my bum. They are the painful kind. And I am 99% sure its the chocolate. May be the sugar/milk combo. maybe I'm alergic. I dont know! but it HAPPENS every time I binge. A little here and there doesn't hurt me though.