Nescafe Original Extra Forte Coffee

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Confusingly, gold instant coffee blends are different to ‘gold coffee’. Pioneered by an American company called Golden Ratio, gold coffee is a type of ultra-light roasted coffee It’s said to be up to five times less acidic than regular coffee and it comes in pouches, just like tea. What is different about NESCAFÉ Gold? The same is true of Tesco's own brands of coffee, and Mellow Birds. Nescafe shares the fact that they use a blend of Arabica and Robusta for instance, at least with some of their coffees, although they don't share the percentage of Robusta vs Arabica which would be helpful information if you were trying to figure out how much caffeine is in each cup since Robusta contains a lot more caffeine. Thinking of buying a coffee machine? Read

Some brands of ground coffee or whole coffee beans available in supermarkets list what coffee is used i.e Robusta or Arabica, while some just tell you that it's “Columbian coffee”, and leave you guessing. I was researching another post about coffee being good for you or not when I stumbled upon what appeared to be a conspiracy involving the big coffee brands! If it said for example xxmg of caffeine per heaped teaspoon of coffee approx, that would make sense. Unless I'm expected to drink dishwater-style coffee, surely how much instant coffee I would add to a mug would depend on the size of that mug?

Gov.UK states that there are special rules when it comes to the labeling of soluble coffee, in terms of what information needs to be displayed, and that these are covered in The Coffee Extracts and Chicory Extracts (England) Regulations 2000, and The Cocoa and Chocolate Products (England) Regulations 2003.

Interestingly, the smaller the grind, the more caffeine the blend contains. Incredibly fine ground coffee boasts the highest extraction and thus, the most caffeine content. Coffee usually comes ground as one of the following: So that's great, tell me how much there is of stuff which of course instant coffee granules are going to contain hardly any of, but leave out the most important active ingredient in coffee, the DRUG caffeine, and leave me to guess how much of that each serving contains. I'm no doctor by the way so please don't take anything I'm saying as medical advice, if you think you should be limiting your caffeine intake then please speak to your doctor.Actually, they made a mistake initially and told me there were 3.4 grams of caffeine in Nescafe Original, 2.3 grams in Gold Blend, and so on – which would be an insanely high caffeine content, but it seems they just made an error when trying to convert from mg to g.

But I did discover something very surprising, and this is the apparent disregard by the big coffee brands when it comes to communicating the content of caffeine in instant coffee brands to their customers, and the fact that there appears to be no obligation for them to do so. By the way, if you're ready to leave the instant behind and up your coffee game, see: I'm focusing on instant coffee here because such a high percentage of the UK population consumes it, and because it's usually a blend of Arabica and Robusta, and since we don't know what the % is, it's difficult to work out the approximate caffeine content per cup. Let’s dispel the most common myth right off the bat: A dark-roasted bean contains more caffeine than a light-roasted bean due to its stronger flavor. Not true. Actually, the caffeine content in both is virtually the same. What is intensity in Nescafe Gold? The majority of ground or whole bean brands available from the supermarket though don't provide much more info than the instant brands do. By the way – If you're struggling with acid reflux and you drink Nescafe Original, keep in mind that Nescafe Original is (as far as I can tell) 100% Robusta. It's thought that a cause of acid reflux could be a higher caffeine content and/or a higher acidity coffee – and a 100% Robusta is going to contain up to double the caffeine, and generally speaking, is going to be much more acidic than a 100% arabica. Douwe Egberts Caffeine ContentSince caffeine is also beneficial in some cases and could be a negative thing in some cases if overused, depending on the individual, doesn't that in some ways put caffeine in a similar realm to marijuana? They also said they can't divulge the Robusta to Arabica percentages in any of their coffees as it's confidential recipe information, fair enough. They have given thought to warn consumers about the caffeine content present in any product which isn't labeled as coffee or tea, which contains over 150mg of caffeine per litre, assuming that most people will know that tea and coffee contain caffeine so no warning is required, fair enough. Drinks that contain more than 150 milligrams per litre of caffeine with the words will have ‘High caffeine content. Not recommended for children or pregnant or breast-feeding women’ written on the label. But I do think that there should be legislation that makes it an obligation for jars of coffee, something that can be found in 80% of British households, to display the caffeine content, in a simple to understand format, so that consumers have a much better idea of how much caffeine they are consuming. What about speciality coffee?