How Do They Get Caffeine Out of Coffee Beans?

in Food & Drink | September 10th, 2014 2 Comments

It’s one of those ques­tions I’ve always won­dered about. And maybe you have too. Just how do they extract caf­feine from cof­fee beans? In the first episode of a new Men­tal Floss series, “Big Ques­tions,” a guy named Craig, rock­ing a tight t shirt, gives us some answers. If I’m guess­ing right, the video relies fair­ly heav­i­ly on this Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can arti­cle from 1999. It helps demys­ti­fy the process a lit­tle more.

Relat­ed Con­tent: 

The (Beau­ti­ful) Physics of Adding Cream to Your Cof­fee

Men In Com­mer­cials Being Jerks About Cof­fee: A Mashup of 1950s & 1960s TV Ads

Hon­oré de Balzac Writes About “The Plea­sures and Pains of Cof­fee,” and His Epic Cof­fee Addic­tion


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