Saturday, April 14, 2012

Facts About Decaffeinated And Caffeinated Coffee

By Cailyn Mieler


We all know that the beverage business is truly a money generating enterprise. As such, there are thousands of advertising companies competing to be the one to ply the manufacturers' wares. Of course, coffee is one of these significant beverages and just like bottled water, sodas and teas, they're all marketed around at least one major ingredient; caffeine.

Yet typically, when dealing in the non-caffeine segment of the marketplace, a consumer might notice that you will find numerous terms which are used to describe the drink including caffeine free, naturally decaffeinated and just plain decaffeinated.

Normally, a beverage is regarded as caffeine free only if it by no means contained caffeine from the start. Needless to say, this would rule out the tea leaves and coffee beans because they each have caffeine content material in their unprocessed, natural form.

Actually, there is a specific amount of caffeine that is contained naturally in various coffees and teas, so in case you truly require your cup of coffee or tea to be non-caffeinated, then pay attention to the natural amount of caffeine that's in the product and then find out how the remainder of the caffeine is removed from a specific type or brand.

Even in this day of modern day technology there is no way that any method can completely eliminate all caffeine content from the product. In the United States there's no "law" about removing caffeine but the standard indicates a beverage might be sold as decaffeinated if 97% of it is removed.

In Europe, they've a higher standard that indicates it may be termed decaffeinated if 99% of the caffeine is eliminated. There are certain things that influence the content of caffeine which are actually out of the producers control and that contains the steeping times and methods of brewing, which both drastically impact the amount of caffeine that you end up consuming.

Should you were to do an online search about how the decaffeinated approach work, then you may well find some fascinating things, including conflicting, diverse, misleading or just plain confusing outcomes.

One reason for this is simply because of the amount of money that customers spend on these beverages. It is so much that manufacturers don't wish to take any chances of risking that revenue.




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