Satiate my curiosity, please. I know caffeine is naturally occurring in many plants (coffee and tea being the most notable). But for things like energy drinks, soda, drink flavorings, and whatnot that we add caffeine to, where does it come from?
Do we synthesize it all , is it recovered from the decaffeination process we use for decaf coffee/tea? Something else?
There’s a lot of caffeine left over from decaffeination, but It’s also synthesized on an industrial scale.
Exactly this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj0A6iJIcuU . James Hoffman did several videos on different decaff processes. He discussed this. (Note, this might not be the right video of the three, I just shared the first one I found).
So a little from column A, a little from column B then. Thanks! 🙏