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The Caffeine Count In Your Morning Fix [Tobacco lawyers-listen up]
Wall St Journal ^
| 4-13-04
| Michael McCarthy
Posted on 04/13/2004 2:35:29 PM PDT by SJackson
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:51:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Jolt From Gourmet Brews Is 56% Greater Than 7-Eleven's; Waking Up in 'Withdrawal'
It isn't just the long lines and high prices that are outsized at Starbucks and other specialty coffeehouses. There's also the issue of caffeine.
In pursuit of a bolder taste, coffeehouses typically brew their blends much stronger than a trusty old cup of Folgers. But a powerful side effect is unusually high levels of caffeine, according to a national test of ready-made coffee run by a laboratory for The Wall Street Journal. House blends at Starbucks Corp., Gloria Jean's and other gourmet coffee chains have an average 56% more caffeine than samples tested at 7-Eleven Inc. stores and 29% more than those at Dunkin' Donuts nationwide.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: addiction; drugpushers; health
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To: blackdog
OK, I've got a mass spec and a gas chromatograph here where I am too. Email me the data you got and your protocol and we'll see if it's reproducible. I'm just the computer guy but the scientist who is sort of my partner in coffee crime will get a kick out of it, I think.
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posted on
04/13/2004 4:07:10 PM PDT
by
johnb838
("I really don't care; they're all gonna die," Lance Cpl. Ryan Christensen)
To: Skooz
"I can't drink it past 7:00 pm or I'll be up all night"
I can drink a 12 cup pot of coffee and lay down and i'll be asleep within 5 minutes, even when i'm trying to stay awake and watch something on TV!
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posted on
04/13/2004 4:23:10 PM PDT
by
dalereed
(,)
To: johnb838
I used to think there is no snob like a wine snob, until I met coffee snobs.
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posted on
04/13/2004 4:36:45 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
To: johnb838
When the Mrs. comes home I'll aks her for the particulars. I know the one test not run was charge potential.
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posted on
04/13/2004 4:45:00 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(I feed the sheep the coyotes eat)
To: johnb838
I used to work saturdays doin overtime in the shop refurbing copiers and fax machines in the 80's. Everyone brought a bottle of wine, deli, greek olives, good crusty bread and we drank all day.
These draconian actions against enjoying life are just unrealistic. Life is to be enjoyed, not litigated or spent worrying about what you ingest or consume.
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posted on
04/13/2004 4:50:04 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(I feed the sheep the coyotes eat)
To: johnb838
I think the reason your lips get all tingly from drinking espresso is because of all the VOC's that don't cook off since it's produced so quickly and the isoflavanoids that are in espresso too. Perking or dripping your brew burns off those complex compounds.
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posted on
04/13/2004 4:55:57 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(I feed the sheep the coyotes eat)
To: jimbokun
what the heck does that mean? I didnt advocate govt control of coffee- I was just relating a personal experience
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posted on
04/13/2004 9:35:23 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
To: SJackson
customers are habituated to a drug, albeit one legal and relatively harmless.
Oh, no. Don't show this to Ashcroft, or it won't be legal long.
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posted on
04/13/2004 9:48:02 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
To: blackdog
The best tasting (and incidentally, the highest caffeine) is from soaked coffee. If the fine ground coffee is soaked for at least 12 hours (up to 24) and then strained out, it is very tasty but doesn't have some acids since they are released by heat. If the coffee is made super strong, hot water can then be added. I used to make it that way in the summer, and add cold milk and ice cubes.
Once people try it, they really like it. It's easier on the stomach.
I try to avoid drinking coffee now though, makes me nervous.
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posted on
04/13/2004 10:02:03 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(...men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.)
To: Mr. K
Sorry, didn't mean to reply to you personally, just the topic in general.
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posted on
04/14/2004 2:51:36 PM PDT
by
jimbokun
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