I have decided to take up decaf coffee. I have always been unable to tolerate t0o much coffee,and I only have 1 cup of weak instant coffee in the morning.

I then drink 2-3 cups of green or black tea, throughout the day,and 1 cup of chammomile tea before bed.

Since I like the taste of coffee, but not the strong caffiene jolt, I thought I'd give decaf a go.

Even after a cup of decaf, I feel a bit of a jolt. I can tell because my appetite goes away altogether.

I was wondering if decaf coffee is really caffiene free? If it is what could cause the appetite supression and mild jolt of energy?

Why don't you go to the health foods store and buy what they call a coffee substitute?. I can't recall the name. It's just like instant coffee and it tastes the same. It has no caffeine. I used to drink it all the time. But then they opened a Dunkin Donuts around the corner. I'm hooked. Just one cup in the morning but it's lovely.

Mel

I may end up having to do this. I called Nestle today regarding the decaf coffee I drink Nescafe. They have not returned my call as yet, so the verdict is still out on weather decaf coffee is truly caffeine free.

--at least here in the US, companies are allowed to label their coffees "caffeine free" if certain processing is used to remove 97% or more of the caffeine in a standard measurement. Of course, that may still leave a bit left over, and if one is more sensitive to it than most, one may still notice a jolting effect (though presumably not as strong as with a regular cup!).

In the program I was in they said decaf had small amounts left. Look at other things too in your diet you may not think like tea or even hot chocolate. Good luck. I wish I could give up caffeine but the hang over right now is not on my list and I get huge ones.Maybe a long term goal.

Many years ago I talked with a coffee broker about de-caf coffee and he told me never buy the junk on the shelf, they chemically extract the caffiene and it truly isn't caf-free. He said only buy buy the coffee that says water-extracted caffiene free, which is usually done by Tullys, Seattle's Best or any other smaller coffee retailer.
Just sharing this b/c God knows we don't need more chemicals in our bodies.

Many years ago I talked with a coffee broker about de-caf coffee and he told me never buy the junk on the shelf, they chemically extract the caffiene and it truly isn't caf-free. He said only buy the coffee that says water-extracted caffiene free, which is usually done by Tullys, Seattle's Best or any other coffee ony business.
Just sharing this b/c God knows we don't need more chemicals in our bodies.

Jannaw:

You said: "Many years ago I talked with a coffee broker about de-caf coffee and he told me never buy the junk on the shelf, they chemically extract the caffiene and it truly isn't caf-free. He said only buy the coffee that says water-extracted caffiene free, which is usually done by Tullys, Seattle's Best or any other coffee ony business."


Many MANY years ago, when I was working at a secretary (I must have been 21 or so), there was an executive drinking coffee. Now I'm not a big coffee drinker. I drink one cup in the a.m. and one cup after dinner and that's it. Never got a jolt, hangover or anything.

So this man and I were talking about decaf coffee (you know how your short term memory might be bad but you REMEMBER every conversation from when you were 21), well that's me. I can reproduce every episode of Star-Trek, I can, word for word, tell you conversations I had with my mother and my father during my 20's. Don't know why this is, probably I have a good long term memory thing going on.

Anyway, this is exactly what he said when I asked him what de-caf coffee was. I had never heard of it and he explained it to me. He said, and I quote "Never buy any decaf coffee from the stores, only purchase the coffee from a company that use the swiss-process of water extracting that takes out the caffeine".

I remember this sentence word for word. I never understood swiss-process but we were talking about Sanka Brand and I believe he said "don't drink it'. In those days, if you wanted de-caf, you had to go to a special coffee store and buy it. This was WAY before the internet and this was when Robert Young was doing the Sanka Brand commercials. I remember Robert Young never said 'I love Sanka", Robert Young said "I love Sanka Brand".

I remember thinking "why is he saying Sanka Brand?

God, I wish my short term memory was that good.

You should see me when "Who wants to be a millionaire? is on. Alan goes nuts.

Some of these questions, well you just know the answer, it pops up in your mind, you don't have to think about it. Alan's been trying to get me on the show for years. I laugh m head off. I tell him 'oh sure, get me in that chair and I'll go complete off kilter, I won't remember anything." I'll never forget one question was about Roman Numerals. Before Alan could even think about it, I blurted out, the answer is C. XI. Alan just looked at me and said "now how do you know roman numerals? I reminded him that I won the Latin Medal in High School. I took Latin because in catholic school it was required in those days. The teacher asked us to write a paragraph in Latin about anything. I chose Clark Gable. I believe I wrote Cark Gable est mortis, blah, blah. Can't remember the latin part. I was 14 when this took place. I will never forget what Sister Mary Cletus did when she got all the papers from all 66 of us students (that's right) 66 girls in the class and no one moved out of their seats. She was reading all the papers then she came to my paragraph.

She looked at the paper, looked at me, opened up the drawer (this was one month into the school year), she took out the Latin Medal and said "Melody, here, there's nobody else in this class that's going to get this but you".

So I got a Latin Medal. Only medal I got, but I got it!!!

So (and sorry to go off topic), why do they allow SOME caffeine in a coffee that's caffeine free? Reminds me of the board of health that allows so many rat turds in a restaurant before they can cite it. I saw this on tv. They are allowed a certain amount of "those things". Can you imagine?

So why can't they take all the caffeine out???

Mel

P.S. It would be nice to be a millionaire.

Dear Melody:

Here's a Medal from me for your very interesting and informative posts! They brighten my day.

Shirley H.

Now aren't you a cutie patootie!!!!

You know, I watched the Shaq special last night (with the obese kids).

jeez. I knew there was an epidemic, but really, why did they take gym out of the schools? Don't they know that kids need to run around for one hour in the afternoon. I mean, earth science, and geography are nice subjects, but what is more important??? learning about worms, or getting your body ready for when you go out into the world???

I think Shaquille O'neal should be commended.

Anybody see this last night??

Mel