Archive for December, 2008
Is decaffeinated coffee safe or does the chemical processing eventually cause harm?
This is a bit like side effects from medication wich are sometimes worse than the actual medical problem that required the medication.
The removal of caffeine occurs at the expense of newly added contamination and pollution which probably makes it a greater health hazard than caffeine.
Try a search for "decaffeinated coffee" + "health hazards" and hopefully you will learn more.
French Vanilla Coffee or Irish Cream Coffee- Which is better ?
Irish Cream Coffee .
Are caribou coffee's smoothies healthy?
Me and my mom love to stop at caribou coffee for a smoothie right now in the summer. I was just wondering if they're healthy? We get a small with no whip cream, too. Thanks! 
umm, it's a smoothie, not coffee
Yeah, I thought they'd be terrible for you, but it looks like they're actually healthy!
http://www.cariboucoffee.com/page/1/beverage-food-detail.jsp?id=1460&type=drink
No fat and only about 250 calories!
How dose coffee get decaffeinated?
Is it filterd? Prepared differently?
For most coffee beans, it begins with a nice, long soak. This submersion draws the caffeine from its beans, leaving us with a bushel of decaffeinated java seeds ready to be roasted, brewed, and slurped down.
But hold that cup of joe. This tastes like sludge!
The caffeine isn't the only thing lured from the beans during their decaffeinating bath. The coffee's flavor also seizes that moment to beat a hasty escape. So brewers need to coax the coffee's good taste back. We'll lay out the three primary methods of maintaining taste while separating a bean from its caffeine…
In one practice, the beans' post-soak water is mixed with a solvent that separates the caffeine from the liquid. Alternatively, the caffeinated water can be forced through activated charcoal or carbon filters, which also separates the caffeine from the solution. After either method, the coffee beans are re-submerged in the now-totally-caffeine-free watery extract where (hopefully) they reabsorb their flavor.
Another method that immerses the beans in one heck of a strong steam bath, and then dunks them in carbon dioxide. The CO2 scares the caffeine away, but keeps the beans' taste intact.
So, how successful are these processes? To be called "decaffeinated," caffeine levels must remain below 2.5 percent. And that dictate has the long arm of the law behind it. So bring on the big mug of soy-mocha-latte-ccino — and make it a decaf.
is french vanilla coffee fatning?
im kind of on a diet right now and sometimes i like having coffee for dinner instead of eating a whole meal. is that bad?
If its black coffee, no it's not fattening
and it is kinda bad that your drinking coffee instead of a meal, you should look into that