10 Things You Need to Know About Coffee Posted: 3 months ago by karenben
#7. Decaffeination Uses Chemicals.
Beans are steamed, so that dissolved caffeine rises to the surface, where it is washed off using an organic solvent called methylene chloride.
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Posted: 3 months ago by clscott645:
They forgot one:
11. Coffee is good.
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Posted: 3 months ago by Moe:
OH MY GOD NOOOOOOOOO NOT ***CHEMICALS***!!!!111
*Ahem*
Some information for you:
Look around. EVERYTHING you see is a chemical, m'kay?
Yes they use methylene chloride to decaffeinate coffee. And YES methylene chloride is a nasty chemical to drink! It is KNOWN to cause cancer, NOT suspected, but KNOWN.
BUT guess how much methylene chloride is IN decaf coffee? None.
Why? Because it boils at 103.5°F. So all you have to do is heat the beans up after they wash them with it and guess what? It's all GONE! Hot water from your TAP would boil it away!
I get tired of seeing people use the word chemicals like it is some horrible uber curse that will kill us all.
/rant
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Posted: 3 months ago by Killerbean:
Why oh why would you drink decaf?!?
It's like drinking non-alcoholic beer ... why?!
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Posted: 3 months ago by Moe:
Indeed...decaf is the devil
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Posted: 3 months ago by psycmoe:
5. Caffeine Can Indeed Keep You Up at Night
Really? No, REALLY? You mean caffeine is an upper? It keeps you awake, not only at night, but during the day?
I never would have known.
*sips coffee
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Posted: 3 months ago by CleopatraReborn:
Methylene chloride is also used for beer (to prepare hops). So is this trying to convince me to stop drinking beer too? Pah. Ridulous.
Just because it's a chemical doesn't mean it's bad.
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Posted: 3 months ago by psycmoe:
« Killerbean : Why oh why would you drink decaf?!?
It's like drinking non-alcoholic beer ... why?! I LOVE coffee. Really, I adore it. But I between work and school, I have to strictly schedule my sleeping hours. So... decaf if I'm just having a psychological craving, and I have to nap soon.
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Posted: 3 months ago by Killerbean:
« psycmoe : I LOVE coffee. Really, I adore it. But I between work and school, I have to strictly schedule my sleeping hours. So... decaf if I'm just having a psychological craving, and I have to nap soon. Do you want to know what I find extremely odd? and most of my family does this. They have their nice, warm cup of joe at night about an hour before bed and it never bothers them. I, of course, cannot do this without staying up an extra 3 hours or so ... idunno, different people, different tastes, different reactions.
Let's just be grateful we don't drink blood or something ... unless of course it's laced with splenda!
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