Do they make Sanka, the original decaf, anymore?
Decaf is oxymoronic, anyway.
Methylene chloride is a pretty useful solvent, but you can’t buy it because it was banned. The EPA said. “Long-term health effects include a variety of cancers, including liver cancer and lung cancer, and damage to the nervous, immune and reproductive systems”.
So, yeah. Decaf is terrible. If you can’t handle caffiene, just drink water.
Decaf coffee sounds like sex without nerve endings.
Oh, is this an even numbered week so that science has again proven that coffee is bad for you? I guess next week it will be again proven that it is good for you. Trust the science!
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Methylene chloride has a boiling point of about 40 degrees C (about 103 degrees Fahrenheit) - a drop of it on a counter would boil away on a hot day, and since it has a really high vapor pressure at any ambient temperature, it readily evaporates. That’s not to say you can be sure there’s not a single molecule of the stuff in your decaf crystals, but the chances of any substantial quantities of it present are pretty small. Even with carcinogens, the dose makes the poison; it’s not something I’d lose any sleep over.
Despite the high volatility of methylene chloride and its miniscule concentration in the decaf coffee (most likely, just trace amounts), consuming it for a long time may have unpredictable consequences, as all chlorinated hydrocarbons are teratogenic. On the other hand, use of liquid carbon dioxide for caffeine extraction from coffee beans under pressure should be totally safe, as it becomes a gas under normal pressure. It is also widely used in all carbonated drinks and no one has ever claimed that they are detrimental to the public health (sugar-yes, carbon dioxide - no).
If I have caffeine after noon it ruins my sleep. Decaf fills a void.
This same info is regurgitated every few months.
Most decent decaf coffee uses the Swiss water process, so this is a non-issue.