Does Starbucks put an addictive substance in their coffee?

Answer 1

Its called caffiene and sugar!

Answer 2

Coffee contains caffeine - which increases the levels of dopamine in the brain.

Dopamine is the same nuerobilogical chemical that is found in substances like cocaine and amphetamines. Researchers believe that the firing of dopamine neurons produces a "motivational chemical" - hence the addiciton.


so.. YES!
all coffee (starbucks or not) that has caffeine i chemically addictive. Because Starbucks only uses top grade / gourmet beans - its taste is more preferred by most caffeine addicts.

Answer 3

No, almost everybody is addicted to coffee, there's no such thing as an addictive substance. Most people just can't live without coffee,- called addiction

Answer 4

Definitely caffeine... a lot of ppl get headaches or get sick if they're used to having lots of coffee or tea, or even soda's and then suddenly don't get to drink it. I get headaches if I go to long without my coffee, but No, Starbucks doesn't add anything extra... but they do have the best coffee, it's my fave!

Answer 5

no they dont, I totally feel like that too i adore starbucks i just think it is soo good and you always want more and more i totally love carmel frappuccino's but that wont help any, anyway so go ahead drink as much starbucks as your heart desires bcuz i do and i am totally fine i get it everytime i pick my little bro up from school which ios well every other day!

Answer 6

No they don't. It's the blend of beans that may seem great. Just a note for someone that said they put caffine in their coffee. Caffine: There are two main species of the coffee plant, Coffea arabica being the older one. Coffee is thought to be indigenous to south-western Ethiopia, specifically from Kaffa, from which it may have acquired its name. While more susceptible to disease, it is considered by most to taste better than the second species, Coffea canephora (robusta). Robusta, which contains about 40–50% more caffeine, can be cultivated in environments where arabica will not thrive and probably originated in Uganda. This has led to its use as an inexpensive substitute for arabica in many commercial coffee blends. Compared to arabica, robusta tends to be bitter and has little flavor, with a telltale "burnt rubber" or "wet cardboard" aroma and flavor. Good quality robustas are used in some espresso blends to provide a better "crema" (foamy head), and to lower the ingredient cost. In Italy, many espresso blends are based on dark-roasted robusta. The large industrial roasters use a steam treatment process to remove undesirable flavors from robusta beans for use in mass-marketed coffee blends. Other species include Coffea liberica and Coffea esliaca, believed to be indigenous to Liberia and southern Sudan respectively.

Arabica coffees were traditionally named by the port they were exported from, the two oldest being Mocha, from Yemen, and Java, from Indonesia. The modern coffee trade is much more specific about origin, labeling coffees by country, region, and sometimes even the producing estate. Varietal is a botanical term denoting a taxonomic category ranking below species, a designation more specific than arabica or robusta and unrelated to the coffee's place of origin. Coffees consisting entirely of beans from a single varietal, bourbon, for example, are generally referred to as such, along with a reference to their place of origin (as in: Rwanda Blue Bourbon). Coffee aficionados may even distinguish auctioned coffees by lot number.

Most arabica coffee beans originate from one of three growing regions; Latin America, East Africa/Arabia and Asia/Pacific. Beans from different countries or regions usually have distinctive characteristics such as flavour (flavour criteria include terms such as "citrus-like" or "earthy"), aroma (sometimes "berry-like" or "flowery"), body or mouthfeel, and acidity. Acidity refers to a tangy or clean-tasting quality, typically present in washed or wet processed coffees. It does not refer to a coffee's pH level. (Black coffee has a pH of around 5). These distinguishing taste characteristics are dependent not only on the coffee's growing region, but also on its method of process and genetic subspecies or varietal.

A peaberry, (also sometimes called a "Caracoli" bean) is a coffee bean that develops singly inside the coffee cherry instead of the usual pair of beans. This situation occurs 5–10% of the time. Since flavour is concentrated when only a single bean is grown inside the cherry, these beans (especially Arabica) are highly prized.
So you can see where starbucks can indeed have a great cup of coffee.

Decafinated coffee is a process to remove the caffine.

They don't need to put additives into their coffee. It has enough already! Many of which is used in the processing.

Answer 7

No, they do not add anything other than water to brew the coffee.
The coffee bean naturally contains caffiene, which is addictive.

Bigdog
Good answer but is it in your own words?

Answer 8

Its called caffiene. But I think they use a higher grade of coffee bean then we can get in a folgers can

Answer 9

No, there coffee just tastes very delicious and your addicted to it.

Answer 10

no! its just like the best coffee in the world!