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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

ok intresting! that tracks but what is "pure caffeine"? because i saw it called green coffee extract, like what they have at starbucks. is this a marketing term for pure caffeine?

edit. yeah googling and im not sure its the same type of caffeine as in energy drinks. do you mean synthetic caffine? when you say pure caffeine? really trying to learn more. becaue just looking online it says that synthetic caffine is the one your body absorbs faster and this is not synthetic caffine. so the lemonade still may be in the clear lol.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pure caffeine was pure wording on my part. "More refined" is what i should have said instead. Coffee and green tea extracts get mashed up and boiled, same as when we use them for regular coffee or tea, but then they will use a series of solvents to further break down the cell walls and further extract the caffeine.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i don't think there would be a chemical difference between synthetic & extracted caffeine. as near as i can tell "green coffee extract" is homeopath for the byproduct of water treated (possibly other methods) decaffination.

however the bioavailability stuff i can't verify, seems like we're doing our best to penetrate those cell walls with coffee/tea preparation, lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All I have is anecdote, but a 16oz monster doesn't get me any more wired than the ~18g of coffee beans in my morning cup. Caffeine estimates for my beans sits at about 144mg vs 140mg in a monster.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

i've never really noticed any significant differences either. maybe bioavailability isn't the correct term for looking this up but i can't find any studies comparing ingestion methods vs. effects