It’s a drug, it effects your behaviour/mood, you must have done some weird shit on it
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I hate to be that guy, but, “source?” The espresso number “feels” a bit off, and some Internet searching agrees better with intuition:
According to USDA, 1oz of espresso is 63mg and 1C coffee is 92mg.
Just googling around, and both DDG and Google summary report 64mg/shot (with the obvious disclaimer about trusting AI summaries).
The chart is wrong on a couple things. Honestly, I’d argue this post should be removed or edited with the correct numbers.
Almost as much caffeine in hot chocolate as in expresso? This chart doesn’t look plausible.
expresso
Ahhhhh!!! Stop it. Please.
Also, it feels odd to compare them all by concentration. Red Bulls come in a specific size.
Also what roast of coffee? How long of a brew? How hot was the brewing water? What elevation did the beans grow? Way too many variables with coffee (and tea for that matter) to be this general
“affects” *
How is espresso so low? I assumed it would be comparable to a cup of coffee.
This scale is bullshit a good espresso shot is like 100 mg or more. Minimum like 65
Apparently 100g of espresso contains 212mg, 30g (or one fluid ounce) has 63mg. I think that ties in with what I can remember from James Hoffmanns channel for the average espresso size. So at least double what’s shown on the chart.
This scale is bullshit
is it? if you got a better one, happy to swap
I don’t I just know it’s bullshit because of the espresso quantity.
Weirdly, my sensitivity to caffeine has gone through the roof in my 40s. I just turned 48 and, if I drink just one cup of coffee after mid-day, I’m not going to get to sleep until about 3am.
I thought green tea has more coffee than black?
I also thought that black tea had more caffeine that coffee. I guess I was wrong.
I have never in life had tea that was even close to the caffeine content in any given coffee.
This is a random image on the web with no sources. Don’t take it for fact. Checking your beliefs is good, checking them with other beliefs is circular logic and doesn’t result in a more objective understanding of the world. Based off Kagi searchs black does on average have more caffeine, but also it varies and they’re close.
Oh for sure, I did check a couple of sources before I posted. Thanks for looking out for us!
Brewed coffee has more caffeine than an espresso?
Never thought of this. Thought they were relatively the same concentration.
Espresso is smaller and these are absolute amounts, if they were percentages I’m sure the espresso would be higher.
Googling around and one oz (=1 shot as far as I can tell) of espresso seems more like 60mg caffeine.
I’m a little skeptical of the number in the graphic, especially since I don’t see a source.
The liquid you drink with filtered coffee has had much more time to steep in all the caffeine from the crushed beans compared to the espresso machine where the liquid travels though the crushed beans under high pressure. This graph might also consider size, but an americano is usually a double espresso with more water so i think they are refering to the brewing method and not the size.
filtered coffee has had much more time to steep in all the caffeine
True, but I think it’s more complicated than that. Filtered coffee is typically a coarse grind, espresso is fine—and fine grind has a larger surface area to volume ratio, which helps with extraction.
I have also heard that caffeine leaches out fairly quickly, so it gets to be diminishing returns pretty quickly.
it’s more complicated than that
Totally, i believe the bean and the burning process also matter in how much caffeine a cup of coffee has in the end. Also i believe espresso coffee is fattier wich influences the flavour and caffeine amount because a filter let’s less particles true or something.
They’re probably using “cup” in the container sense, not the measurement sense. So it’s shot of espresso vs mug of coffee.
If I have too much coffee, I get irritating eye twitches and feel unpleasant.
TIL: Cocoa contains a significant amount of caffeine…
Could be Theobromine?
Nope, contains both, checked Wikipedia:
The beans contain theobromine, and between 0.1% and 0.7% caffeine, whereas dry coffee beans are about 1.2% caffeine.
Drank three pots of strong coffee in 8 hours on the day I got my coffee machine during covid lockdowns.
Proceeded to code for 36 hours and have very distracting auditory hallucinations.
Good times.
pot of coffee every day
Oof yeah. My mum has a good coffee machine, and when I moved out she offered it to me. I had to refuse because I knew that if it was just me in the house I would a) drink it to the point I would never sleep again, and b) it made me way more likely to visit her often if I know she has good coffee
My freshman year of college i drank one of the largest cans of red bull and a big coffee right before heading to a math class. I was tweaking scribbling absurd doodles in my notebook.
Did it help you math better, or were the doodles largely untethered to reality
The only thing I remember drawing was a stick figure ripping itself in half. For sure I was not at all paying attention to the professor.
Work
Discovered that the caffeine in soda is the cause of bad munchies and not the same as coffee. Drink decaf soda and coffee now, lost weight, lol’d.
I tried decaf Coke Zero and I have to admit it makes me miserable. Can’t work out if it’s my head expecting the caffein high and not recieving it, or if it’s something in the chemicals itself that acts as a depressant
Isn’t caffeine in soda added in a relatively pure form in the end of the proces, unlike coffee/tea/cacao where it part of the ‘source’ of the end product? I don’t think they have to substitute the caffeine for some decaf ingredient. If that’s true, that would rule out your second guess.
Huh - that’s actually good to hear. I thought they had to do the same creepy stuff they do to coffee to decaffeinate it, rather than just not adding it at all.
In that case I guess I’ve just got to train my brain to not immediately expect the caffeine high when drinking it
It’s a chemical, so what’s the difference? Anyway, yeah, people vastly underestimate how many calories they’re drinking.
Back in the day, when I would hang out all day every day at a coffeehouse, I drank like three pots of coffee in two hours. I ended up standing up on a chair and flailing around, then completely crashing out and feeling like I was going to die.
I’d get blackout buzzed on caff (street name for caffeine) and go on a murderous rampage. You know, since caffeine is a drug and all.
yeah nice. my fave is to go to Starbucks and boof a double frappucino while everyone just stares in awe. then I recite the first 2 million digits of pi before having sex with one of the stools.
Took caffeine pills, stayed up 4 days, saw strange colours, broke down and slept
Luckily made it home, the snow was looking really cosySleep deprivation will scramble your brain.
After three days I got vivid hallucinations while driving. Traffic was coming straight for me on my side of a divided highway. Never again.
Longest I’ve stayed up is a 3 and bit days. I didn’t hallucinate, because I wasn’t drinking caffeine (you can stay surprisingly alert and mellow on just fruit), but I definitely had massive lapses in judgement when crossing the road
