2006-10-23 05:33:00 · 7 answers · asked by Maryam N 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
Decaffeinated coffee is made from normal coffee and accounts for about 10% of the world market, but it is expensive to manufacture. It tastes different from normal coffee because solvents used to extract the caffeine also remove some of the compounds that give coffee its flavour.
2006-10-23 05:36:49 · answer #1 · answered by richard_beckham2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Decaffeinated = de-caf
As I understand it, the coffee bean is treated with alkali, in order to dissolve the xanthine compounds out of it.
Caffeine is a "xanthine", along with its "cousins" theophylline and theobromine.
Probably more information than you wanted.
I believe the other person is correct in attributing this "leaching process" (where caffeine is "leached out" of the coffee beans) as being responsible for changing the flavor of the end product.
(I have heard others say that the flavor is different, as a result.)
I, myself, am nauseated by even the smell of coffee:
(Just like that tv personage, Rosie O'Donnell)
(She and I don't share any other personal views, though, if you know what I mean).
2006-10-23 07:18:05 · answer #2 · answered by hohobankhamen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was discovered when a ship got caught in a storm at sea and the salt water took most of the caffine out since then they have refine it down to a science.
2006-10-23 05:58:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eh" dont you think they would remove the caffine?
2006-10-23 06:07:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
tea. sweet with milk and a stick of cinnamon
2006-10-25 06:20:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its something they do to it with salty water not sure what
2006-10-23 05:44:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they take the caffeine out,lol, sorry
2006-10-23 05:39:00 · answer #7 · answered by strawberry delight 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋