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FDA Warns Against "Coffee Aphrodisiac"
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Jaya Saxena
Published Jun 20, 2010
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The FDA has issued a warning, saying anyone who has used Magic Power Coffee should stop. Magic Power Coffee advertises that "your 'special moments' can increase to a level you only dreamed" by drinking the instant "Passion Coffee," but the FDA says the coffee can significantly lower blood pressure. Wait, this coffee is supposed to make you relaxed?
The "all natural dietary supplement" includes ingredients like horny goat weed and goji berry that apparently get users in the mood. The FDA says that there haven't actually been any reports of adverse affects of the supplement, but that the coffee contains a chemical similar to the active ingredient in Viagra, and that could be dangerous when mixed nitrates. So be careful, but do us a favor and watch these six couples describe using the coffee. You'll go for the overacting, but stay for couple so aroused they did it on a Tuesday night.
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