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! 🙏
I remember reading somewhere that most of the caffeine used in things that don’t usually have caffeine, comes from the byproduct of making decaf coffee.Not sure how true that is though.
That makes sense to me and is what I was thinking when I had this thought at the grocery store earlier. Then I wasn’t sure since so many things have caffeine in them these days – would the byproduct caffeine be enough? Another person said it’s synthesized on an industrial scale, and that also makes sense, at least enough to satisfy my curiosity.
Caffeine is extracted from coffee using carbon discuss to make decaf coffee.
I’m only guessing, but this would be a decent source of caffeine for other foods/drinks
Synthesis as most of all the “added” products. Even vitamin-c is synthesized, we can and do synthesize anything basically (wild guess here).
Its cheaper and doesn’t require to start from any vegetal product which will be vastly wasted.
Also, the molecule of coffee (or vitamin) is identical if synthesized or extracted. Its the same chemical compound which bears no memory of where it domes from.
Synthesised.
Global Synthetic Caffeine Market, By Product
• Powder\ • Granular
Global Synthetic Caffeine Market, By Application
• Food & Beverages
• Pharmaceutical
• Cosmetics & Personal Care
• Dietary Supplements & Functional FoodGlobal Synthetic Caffeine Market, By Geography
• North America
— U.S.
— Canada
— Mexico
• Europe
— Germany
— UK
— France
— Rest of Europe
• Asia Pacific
— China
— Japan
— India
— Rest of Asia Pacific
• Rest of the World
— Latin America
— Middle East & AfricaGlobal Synthetic Caffeine Market, Key Players
• BASF SE
• Kudos Chemie
• Cambridge Commodities Limited
• Aarti Industries Limited
• Spectrum Chemical Manufacturing Corp
• CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Limited
• Foodchem International Corporation
• LobaChemie Pvt.
• Stabilimento Farmaceutico Cav. G. Testa
• Central Drug House
