• Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social
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      11 months ago

      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.

    • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      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.

      • CatoPosting [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        11 months ago

        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.

        • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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          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