You can get decaffeinated coffee beans, so are they grown w/o caffeine in the bean or taken out afterwards?

Question

If you know if they use chemicals to get the caffeine out of the bean before they package it, please tell me. Thanks.

Answer 1

There are a few ways to decaffeinate coffee. The first, and original, is with Methylene Chloride a chemical which is also used for dry cleaning. The FDA has labeled this process as G.R.A.S. (generally regarded as safe) but it’s certainly not the favorite method.

Another method is the swiss water method. This method takes the green, unroasted coffee and passes pure water over it. The process removes 99.9% of the caffeine without the use of any chemicals. The finished result is a cup of coffee that tastes as good as regular, caffeinated coffee.

I would assume most companies use the second method, but you may want to check the packages carefully. The cheap "value" brands may be made with chemicals (as cheap food generally are)

Answer 2

the best answer i can give you and i reserched this the best i could and didnt find much but tid bits of info but here it is anyway. i would say it depends on the company i have found that foldgers uses ethyl acetate which if you put that word in the serch program on dictionary.com you end up finding that it is a very flamable liquid used in most solvents but foldgers will tell you something differend go to thier site check out foldgers coffee and decaff you will see what they tell you it is at the bottom of the page. now i found a forum online that had many posts it was an i hate starbucks forum but one person said that starbucks uses "methalyne-chloride to decaffinate the beans it retains more of the flavor of the bean as opposed to Swiss Water Process, which is the main reason Starbucks uses it. There is no detectable amount of methalyne-chloride in the coffee, because the boiling point of methalyne-chloride is lower than the rosting temperature of the coffee, so any that is not removed through the chemical process is removed there." but i cant find any info on this exact chemical. as far a i can tell the big coffee companys use chemical prccess to remove the caffine and the small buisnesses probably use the water method or something else of course i cant say this for sure. i hope this helps. i went to the starbucks site they dont seem to say anything about thier decaff coffee that will tell me that they dont want us to know!!! spelling and grammer may not be great except for the company names and chemicals those are spelled correctly please excuse this the spell check wasnt working thank you.

Answer 3

if you are trying to get away from caffeine why drink coffee in the first place sorry that's a question instead of answer

Answer 4

Your local grocers has decaf coffee beans. Read the label.

Answer 5

not sure