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Decaffeination

Decaffeination is the process of removing caffeine from coffee beans, tea leaves, and other materials, with a requirement of at least 97% caffeine reduction in the U.S. Various methods exist for decaffeination, including organic solvents, supercritical CO2, and water-based processes like the Swiss Water method. Decaffeinated products still contain some caffeine, with studies showing that decaf coffee can have varying caffeine levels, sometimes equating to several cups of regular coffee.
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Decaffeination

Decaffeination is the process of removing caffeine from coffee beans, tea leaves, and other materials, with a requirement of at least 97% caffeine reduction in the U.S. Various methods exist for decaffeination, including organic solvents, supercritical CO2, and water-based processes like the Swiss Water method. Decaffeinated products still contain some caffeine, with studies showing that decaf coffee can have varying caffeine levels, sometimes equating to several cups of regular coffee.
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Decaffeination

Decaffeination is the removal of caffeine from coffee beans, cocoa, tea leaves, and other caffeine-
containing materials. Decaffeinated products are commonly termed by the abbreviation decaf. To ensure
product quality, manufacturers are required to test the newly decaffeinated coffee beans to make sure that
caffeine concentration is relatively low. A caffeine content reduction of at least 97% is required under
United States standards.[1] According to a study decaffeinated drinks contain typically 1–2% of the
original caffeine content, but sometimes as much as 20%.[2]

Decaffeinated coffee
Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge performed the first isolation of caffeine from coffee beans in 1820, after the
German poet Goethe heard about his work on belladonna extract, and requested he perform an analysis
on coffee beans.[3] Though Runge was able to isolate the compound, he did not learn much about the
chemistry of caffeine itself, nor did he seek to use the process commercially to produce decaffeinated
coffee.

Processes
Various methods can be used for decaffeination of coffee. These methods take place prior to roasting and
may use organic solvents such as dichloromethane or ethyl acetate, supercritical CO2, or water to extract
caffeine from the beans, while leaving flavour precursors in as close to their original state as possible.[4]

Organic solvent

Direct method
The first commercially successful decaffeination process was invented by German merchant Ludwig
Roselius and co-workers in 1903, after Roselius observed that a consignment of coffee beans accidentally
soaked in sea water had lost most of their caffeine content while losing little of their flavour.[5][6] The
process was patented in 1906, and involved steaming coffee beans with various acids or bases, then using
benzene as a solvent to remove the caffeine.[7][8] Coffee decaffeinated this way was sold as Kaffee HAG
after the company name Kaffee Handels-Aktien-Gesellschaft (Coffee Trading Company) in most of
Europe, as Café Sanka in France and later as Sanka brand coffee in the United States. Café HAG and
Sanka are now worldwide brands of Kraft Foods.

Methods similar to those first developed by Roselius have continued to dominate, and are sometimes
known as the direct organic solvent method. However, because of health concerns regarding benzene
(which is recognized today as a carcinogen),[9] other solvents, such as dichloromethane or ethyl acetate,
are now used.[10] The unroasted (green) beans are first steamed and then rinsed with the solvent which
extracts the caffeine, while leaving other constituents largely
unaffected. The process is repeated between 8 and 12 times until
the caffeine content meets the required standard (97% of caffeine
removed according to the US standard, or 99.9% caffeine-free by
mass per the EU standard).[4]

Indirect method
Another variation of Roselius' method is the indirect organic
solvent method. In this method, instead of treating the beans
directly, they are first soaked in hot water for several hours, then
removed. The remaining water is treated with solvents (e.g.
dichloromethane or ethyl acetate) to extract the caffeine from the
water. As in other methods, the caffeine can then be separated
from the organic solvent by simple evaporation. The same water is
recycled through this two-step process with new batches of beans.
An equilibrium is reached after several cycles, wherein the water
and the beans have a similar composition except for the caffeine. 1914 American newspaper advert
After this point, the caffeine is the only material removed from the for Kaffee HAG decaffeinated coffee
beans, so no coffee strength or other flavorings are lost. [11]

Because water is used in the initial phase of this process, indirect


method decaffeination is sometimes referred to as "water-processed". This method was first mentioned in
1941, and people have made significant efforts to make the process more "natural" and a true water-based
process by finding ways to process the caffeine out of the water in ways that circumvent the use of
organic solvents.[12]

Swiss Water
An alternative method for removal of caffeine from coffee is the
Swiss Water process. This process uses no organic solvents, and
instead only water is used to decaffeinate beans. It is a technique
first developed in Switzerland in 1933, and commercialized by
Coffex S.A. in 1980.[6] The Swiss Water process was then
introduced by The Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company of
Burnaby, British Columbia, in 1988.[13]
Sack of green coffee beans
The process uses green coffee extract (GCE) for the caffeine decaffeinated by the Swiss Water
extraction mechanism. Green coffee extract is a solution process
containing the water-soluble components of green coffee except
for the caffeine, obtained by soaking green coffee beans in hot
water, then filtering through an activated charcoal filter to remove the caffeine molecules.[6] Fresh beans
containing both caffeine and the other components are added to the GCE solution, where the gradient
pressure difference between the GCE (which is caffeine-lean) and the green coffee (which is caffeine-
rich) causes the caffeine molecules to migrate from the green coffee into the GCE.[14] Because GCE is
saturated with the other water-soluble components of green coffee, only the caffeine molecules migrate to
the GCE; the other water-soluble coffee elements are retained in the green coffee. The newly caffeine-
rich GCE solution is then passed through the activated carbon filters to remove the caffeine again, and the
process is repeated. The continuous batch process takes 8–10 hours to meet the final residual
decaffeinated target.[15]

Food engineer Torunn Atteraas Garin also developed a process to remove caffeine from coffee.[16][17]

Triglyceride
In this process, green coffee beans are soaked in a hot water and coffee solution to draw the caffeine to
the surface of the beans. Next, the beans are transferred to another container and immersed in coffee oils
that were obtained from spent coffee grounds and left to soak.

After several hours of high temperatures, the triglycerides in the oils remove the caffeine, but not the
flavor elements, from the beans. The beans are separated from the oils and dried. The caffeine is removed
from the oils, which are reused to decaffeinate another batch of beans. This is a direct-contact method of
decaffeination.

Supercritical CO2
Food scientists have also turned to supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) as a means of decaffeination.
Developed by Kurt Zosel, a scientist of the Max Planck Institute, it uses CO2 (carbon dioxide), heated
and pressurised above its critical point, to extract caffeine.[6] Green coffee beans are steamed and then
added to a high pressure vessel. A mixture of water and CO2 is circulated through the vessel at 300 atm
and 65 °C (149 °F). At this pressure and temperature CO2 is a supercritical fluid, with properties midway
between a gas and a liquid. Caffeine dissolves into the CO2; but compounds contributing to the flavour of
the brewed coffee are largely insoluble in CO2 and remain in the bean. In a separate vessel, caffeine is
scrubbed from the CO2 with additional water. The CO2 is then recirculated to the pressure vessel.[4][18]

Caffeine content of coffee

Caffeine content of decaffeinated coffee


To ensure product quality, manufacturers are required to test the newly decaffeinated coffee beans to
make sure that caffeine concentration is relatively low. A caffeine content reduction of at least 97% is
required under United States standards.[19] There is less than 0.1% caffeine in decaffeinated coffee and
less than 0.3% in decaffeinated instant coffee in Canada.[20] Many coffee companies use high-
performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to measure how much caffeine remains in the coffee beans.
However, since HPLC can be quite costly, some coffee companies are beginning to use other methods
such as near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy.[21] Although HPLC is highly accurate, NIR spectroscopy is
much faster, cheaper and overall easier to use. Lastly, another method typically used to measure the
remaining caffeine includes ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy: useful for decaffeination processes that
include supercritical CO2, as CO2 does not absorb in the UV-Vis range.[22]

A controlled study in 2006 at Florida State University of ten samples of prepared decaffeinated coffee
from coffee shops showed that some caffeine remained.[2] Fourteen to twenty cups of such decaffeinated
coffee would contain as much caffeine as one cup of regular coffee.[2] The 473 ml (16 ounce) cups of
coffee samples contained caffeine in the range of 8.6 mg to 13.9 mg. In another study of popular brands
of decaf coffees, the caffeine content varied from 3 mg to 32 mg.[23] In contrast, a 237 ml (8 ounce) cup
of regular coffee contains 95–200 mg of caffeine,[24] and a 355 ml (12 ounce) serving of Coca-Cola
contains 36 mg.[25]

Decaffito
As of 2009, progress toward growing coffee beans that do not contain caffeine was still continuing. The
term "Decaffito" has been coined to describe this type of coffee, and trademarked in Brazil.[26]

The prospect for Decaffito-type coffees was shown by the discovery of the naturally caffeine-free Coffea
charrieriana variety, reported in 2004. It has a deficient caffeine synthase gene, leading it to accumulate
theobromine instead of converting it to caffeine.[27] Either this trait could be bred into other coffee plants
by crossing them with C. charrieriana, or an equivalent effect could be achieved by knocking out the
gene for caffeine synthase in normal coffee plants.[28]

Decaffeinated tea
Tea may also be decaffeinated, usually by using processes analogous to the direct method or the CO2
process, as described above. Oxidizing tea leaves to create black tea ("red" in Chinese tea culture) or
oolong tea leaves from green leaves does not affect the amount of caffeine in the tea, though tea-plant
subspecies (i.e. Camellia sinensis sinensis vs. Camellia sinensis assamica) may differ in natural caffeine
content. Younger leaves and buds contain more caffeine by weight than older leaves and stems. Although
the CO2 process is favorable because it is convenient, nonexplosive, and nontoxic,[29] a comparison
between regular and decaffeinated green teas using supercritical carbon dioxide showed that most
volatile, nonpolar compounds (such as linalool and phenylacetaldehyde), green and floral flavor
compounds (such as hexanal and (E)-2-hexenal), and some unknown compounds disappeared or
decreased after decaffeination.[30]

In addition to CO2 process extraction, tea may be also decaffeinated using a hot water treatment. Optimal
conditions are met by controlling water temperature, extraction time, and ratio of leaf to water.
Temperatures of 100 °C or more, moderate extraction time of 3 minutes, and a 1:20 leaf to water weight
per volume ratio removed 83% caffeine content and preserved 95% of total catechins.[31] Catechins, a
type of flavanol, contribute to the flavor of the tea and have been shown to increase the suppression of
mutagens that may lead to cancer.[32]

Both coffee and tea have tannins, which are responsible for their astringent taste, but tea has around one
third of the tannin content of coffee.[33] Thus, decaffeination of tea requires more care to maintain tannin
content than decaffeination of coffee in order to preserve this flavor. Preserving tannins is desirable not
only because of their flavor, but also because they have been shown to have anticarcinogenic,
antimutagenic, antioxidative, and antimicrobial properties. Specifically, tannins accelerate blood clotting,
reduce blood pressure, decrease the serum lipid level, and modulate immunoresponses.[34]

Certain processes during normal production might help to decrease the caffeine content directly, or
simply lower the rate at which it is released throughout each infusion. In China, this is evident in many
cooked pu-erh teas, as well as more heavily fired Wuyi Mountain oolongs; commonly referred to as
'zhonghuo' (mid-fired) or 'zuhuo' (high-fired).

A generally accepted statistic is that a cup of normal black (or red) tea contains 40–50 mg of caffeine,
roughly half the content of a cup of coffee.[35]

Although a common technique of discarding a short (30 to 60 seconds) steep[36] is believed to much
reduce caffeine content of a subsequent brew at the cost of some loss of flavor, research suggests that a
five-minute steep yields up to 70% of the caffeine, and a second steep has one-third the caffeine of the
first (about 23% of the total caffeine in the leaves).[37]

See also

Technology portal

Coffee portal

Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola
Caffeine-Free Pepsi
Coffee substitute
Health effects of caffeine
Health effects of coffee
Health effects of tea
Low caffeine coffee

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