Posted on 04/28/2024 4:16:51 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Health advocacy groups are petitioning the FDA to ban methylene chloride, a chemical compound used in the decaffeination process. Here's what you need to know.
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Decaf = sacrilege
What the hell is the point of taking caffeine out of the coffee beans that Mother Nature has blessed us with? It’s like taking chocolate out of cocoa beans and throwing it away.
I don’t drink coffee, though I love the smell of it. That said, I’ll never touch it. I tried once, and one sip later Dr. John got a visit within moments.
Or drinking 3.2% beer.
I agree with this. It seems everything will kill you.
Decaf coffee to me never tastes the same as the real stuff regardless of what process was used to remove the caffeine or the quality of the beans. Lite beers and now reduced calorie wines are also nasty in my book.
My daily coffee is made from fresh beans from a family owned coffee roaster in my hometown in South Dakota (www.cherrybean.net) ground immediately before making using purified water heated to 185 degrees and a French press coffee maker.
I can’t stand the taste of the stuff.
I drank it once on a camping trip out of desperation because it was hot and I was cold.
It smells absolutely AWESOME, but I’ll pass on the taste.
Fellow Peetnick! Peet’s “Major Dickanson is a great choice!
There’s no cure, there’s no answer
Decaf coffee is like kissing’ your sister.
I like coffee.
I can only drink decaf
I buy Water decaf beans in a variety of roasts and these day sm perking them in a Pyrex vintage percolator
Yum.
No Sanka for 59 years now!
I probably do 12 cups of coffee per day. I can’t work without it. Been doing it for near 30 years now. 53 years old and thankfully still a clean bill of health.
Swift River coffees
They actually have a number of different decaf roasts. Not flavors but beans and roasts!
I always thought that the caffiene was the point.
I’ve noticed that it seems all new drugs have a suicide tendency warning.
Not sure if they can’t find test groups that aren’t suicidal. Or if there is something seriously wrong with all new drugs.
I used to wake up in the middle of the night with heart palpitations from drinking too much coffee. Switched to decaf about 40 years ago. I’ve never had any problems!!
I signed on to a 2 week commercial fishing trip when I was a teenager. The captain told the crew of eleven to not bother buying cigarettes because he had a case of 24 cartons of cigarettes so no one brought cigs. The things he brought were non nicotine, non tobacco lookalikes a brand called True. Disappointment was immense and mutiny threatened until the captain passed out a few bottles of wine he carried, heretofore carefully hidden from he crew, enough for us all to forget the Truly not cigarettes until we got to the fishing ground whereupon everybody was too busy or too tired to care.
Prop 65 in California should trigger the ban of decaffeinated coffee in the state as a cancer causing agent. I wouldn't drink it.
Also....do not cook your food in a microwave on or inside paper towels. They are loaded with wet strength resins (epichlorohydrene) to the tune of 15kg. per ton of paper towels. Not to mention the defoamers, release agents, creaping adhesives, and biocides.
Toilet paper isn't too bad, but not great. Facial tissue is pretty bad as well.
I drank several cups a day until I figured out that it was giving me my migraines that would disable me for three or four days. It wasn’t the caffeine because I still drink Maté without headaches. Maté is the Argentinian caffeine drink of tradition down there and it’s cheap.
No caffeine
No protein
No booze or nicotine
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