Anyone tried coffee with l-theanine?
How do you decaffeinate coffee?
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Re: How do you decaffeinate coffee?
#22It would be cool if someone genetically engineered decaf coffee beans. In theory you just disable one gene, no?
Re: How do you decaffeinate coffee?
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ehh, the whole premise there seems to be "chemicals bad," while acknowledging that the amount of solvent left in the coffee is negligible.
I'm not sure about you, but I prefer the amount of solvent in my food and drink to be "none", rather than "negligible".
Some additional bad news about water if you don't like solvents in your food.
Re: How do you decaffeinate coffee?
#24Seems similar to the process of removing alcohol from beer while still keeping the taste.
I don't drink but I was always under the impression that alcohol-free beer doesn't quite taste the same (i.e. that the process of removing alcohol doesn't only remove the taste of alcohol, but somehow additionally damages the overall beer taste and makes it inferior).
Beer has a incredible variety of tastes. Don't compare alcohol free beers with the alcoholic beers of the same brand, just view it as a separate family of beers. Try some and pick your favorite.
Re: How do you decaffeinate coffee?
#25Coffee has way more active ingredients than just caffeine, so removing just that does not really negate majority of the effects. This would be similar to removing nicotine from cigarettes.
Better just go to tea instead of decaf if you're sensitive. Another alternative that allows you to keep using coffee would be to go to your grandparents' coffee cups. They're 2-10 times smaller than the current ones!
Re: How do you decaffeinate coffee?
#26Wait ... but ... why? (in jest) I understand why, though some of us think of decaf "coffee", much the same way others view white "chocolate". At some point, the thing you modified it to be, isn't representative of the original thing. IMO, it should not be called coffee or chocolate, even with a descriptive adjective up front. This is a minor nit to pick, but still, for those of us with a strong love of (addition to)…
The flavour is the same
Re: How do you decaffeinate coffee?
#27Wait ... but ... why? (in jest) I understand why, though some of us think of decaf "coffee", much the same way others view white "chocolate". At some point, the thing you modified it to be, isn't representative of the original thing. IMO, it should not be called coffee or chocolate, even with a descriptive adjective up front. This is a minor nit to pick, but still, for those of us with a strong love of (addition to)…
They're both still coffee and chocolate, though. That reminds me of my college roommate who tried to argue that gelato isn't ice cream, using light beer vs dark beer as an analogy!
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have some unpleasant news for you, literally everything you have ever eaten has some level of adulterants in it. It's allowed: https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packagin...
I'm reasonably sure the moose I shot 200km from a paved road and the vegetables I grow in my backyard are pretty free and clear.
You would be incorrect. Your backyard soil is not free from contaminants, nor is the foot that the moose ate.
Re: How do you decaffeinate coffee?
#29It would be cool if someone genetically engineered decaf coffee beans. In theory you just disable one gene, no?
There is such a variant and numerous attempts are under way to breed such a plant. There are many hundreds of natural coffee plant variants and some do produce almost no caffeine but also do not produce good fruit. So far there hasn't been much success on combining the properties, there is a commercial bean out of africa naturally low in caffeine but its not great or very available.
I think it will happen at some point.
Re: How do you decaffeinate coffee?
#30Wait ... but ... why? (in jest) I understand why, though some of us think of decaf "coffee", much the same way others view white "chocolate". At some point, the thing you modified it to be, isn't representative of the original thing. IMO, it should not be called coffee or chocolate, even with a descriptive adjective up front. This is a minor nit to pick, but still, for those of us with a strong love of (addition to)…
They're both still coffee and chocolate, though. That reminds me of my college roommate who tried to argue that gelato isn't ice cream, using light beer vs dark beer as an analogy!
TIL gelato isn't ice cream. I'm from Italy, where "ice cream" is the translation of gelato, and by that I mean the sweet and icy milk-based stuff people eat during the summer, however you English speakers decide call it.