Tea & Coffee 03/03 - Comments on the Decaf Coffee Market (#)

„Frank Dennis, Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company, Inc.’s c.e.o. and president, noted that his company’s business has also been growing steadily over the past year. “We’ve taken great care not only to understand how best to decaffeinate coffee with 100% pure water, but we’ve also invested a lot in understanding the decaffeinated coffee drinker so that we can work with our roaster/customers in helping them communicate with those coffee drinkers.” Asked about the newer entries into the ‘100% water’ decaffeination arena, Dennis had this to say, “We’re flattered to see our competitors introducing “100% water” and “pure water” processes but we’ve been decaffeinating with pure water using our patented process for a long time - we believe the quality of our product reflects that experience.…our plant, by the way, has been open to tours since the day it opened.”“

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | GM decaf coffee plant created (#)

„Bitter battle Pablo Dubois, from the ICO, said: "The global market for coffee is about $70bn a year, and decaf makes up about 10% of that. "The main issue would be the economics - is it going to be cheaper to buy GM seeds and grow them than to decaffeinate coffee as we do now?" Other researchers, some in commercial companies, have been working on GM decaf for several years. But Professor Alan Crozier, from the biochemistry department in Glasgow University, UK, says this is the first credible evidence that the GM decaffeination concept actually works. "They've got the caffeine level down by about 70%.“

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illy caffè North America (#)

„Metheleyne Chloride is highly effective for removing caffeine; it does not strip the coffee of its aromas, flavor or body as some other methods do. Illycaffè does not decaffeinate coffee in the Trieste factory. The blended green coffee (the same blend as in the regular coffee) is sent to an outside company that is specialized in the decaffeination process. For each lot of illy coffee that is processed the decaffeination company supplies a certificate verifying the caffeine content is at or below 0.05 caffeine content, well below the European Standard of 0.10%.“

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Amazon.com: Gourmet Food: Decaffeinated Ground Gourmet Coffee (#)

„With Britt Decaffeinated, you can enjoy the taste of Costa Rican export quality coffee, without caffeine. Among coffee gourmets, Costa Rican coffee is famous for being one of the finest coffee varieties to decaffeinate. It's really hard to tell this is decaf, due to the dark roast we give it, ensuring an improved and unique taste, not normally found in any other decaf beverage.“

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CoffeeGeek - Espresso: Espresso Blends, Decaf revisited (#)

„Fortunately this is changing. I'd particularly like to mention Royal Coffee Importers in this respect, who are having some of their best Single Origin coffees decaffeinated in Mexico. These are sometimes labelled "Royal Select" decafs by resellers (Royal doesn't sell diret to the public), and are usually a great cup.“

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It's All About Coffee (#)

„[Health India]: Washington, Oct 9 (ANI): Emory University chemists have suceeded in harnessing the ability of bacteria to make new molecules, which could eventually lead to the creation of naturally decaffeinated coffee plants and produe theophylline, a producte used in treating asthma.“

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illy caffè North America (#)

„illy uses the Metheleyne Chloride process, the most common method used to decaffeinate coffee and one that is highly effective in removing caffeine. And, unlike some other methods, it does not strip the coffee of aroma, flavor or body.“

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LIGHT & SWEET: Move Over Botox -- Training Bacteria To Flatten Caffeine - National Coffee Association (#)

„Gallivan. After that, it’s simply a matter of applying “directed evolution’ to speed up the caffeine-busting enzyme before unleashing the supercharged bacteria to decaffeinate a coffee plant near you.“

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CoffeeGeek - Espresso: Espresso Blends, Black Cat Decaf... (#)

„We take the green coffee that we normally use in Black Cat, blend it green and send it to the Swiss Water Company in Vancouver. They decaffeinate the green coffee for us and send it back. We then roast it as a blend.“

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Amazon.com: Books: The Farmer From Merna: (#)

„How bad is it? If you tear out the pages and use them as filters for your coffee maker, it will decaffeinate your coffee!“

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Caffeine Nation (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

„Thinking you may be overdoing it a bit and would like to decaffeinate yourself? Here are a few more facts that may help.“

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