28 Facts About Caffeine Everyone Ought To Know
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- Caffeine is a stimulant that temporarily wards off drowsiness and restore alertness. It is found commonly in the leaves and beans of :
- Coffee Plants
- Tea
- Yerba Mate (popular South American beverage)
- Guarana Berries (soft drink & energy shot ingredient)
- Kola Nut (cola ingredient)
- Cocoa (smaller quantities)
- Over 60 plants use caffeine as a natural pesticide that paralyzes and kill insects.
- Caffeine is the world’s most widely consumed legal, unregulated drug (psychoactive substance) estimated at 120,000 tons per year. 90% of North American adults consume caffeine daily.
- Dark-roast coffee has less caffeine than lighter roasts because the roasting process reduces the bean’s caffeine content.
- The color of tea cannot be used to indicate caffeine content.
- Arabica coffee normally contains less caffeine than coffee originating from Western Africa. Arabica coffee plants are less bitter but more susceptible to disease.
- Caffeine is COMPLETELY absorbed by the stomach and small intestine within 45 minutes of ingestion.
- A cup of tea contains half the amount of caffeine of an average cup of coffee.
- Caffeine in chocolate is insignificant to the point where a 28-gram serving of milk chocolate bar has as much caffeine as a cup of decaffeinated coffee.
- A study found out that 5.5 milligrams of caffeine per kilogram of body mass resulted in subjects cycling 29% longer during high intensity circuits.
- Animals like dogs, horses and parrots are unable to metabolize the compound thus caffeine is toxic to them.
- 80% to 90% of American adults consume caffeine daily, and their mean daily caffeine intake exceeds 200 mg/day which means that a large fraction of the U.S. adult population is completely tolerant to most of the effects of caffeine.
- A reduction in serotonin levels when caffeine use is stopped can cause anxiety, irritability, inability to concentrate, diminished motivation to complete daily tasks and even mild depression.
- Other side effects include dizziness, tachycardia, blurred vision, drowsiness, dry mouth, flushed dry skin, diuresis, loss of appetite, nausea and stomachaches.
- Caffeine intoxication happens at 3-4 cups of brewed coffee.
- Caffeine intensifies and prolongs the effects of epinephrine-like drugs such as amphetamine, methamphetamine, or methylphenidate.
- A small dose of caffeine taken with pain killers increase the effectiveness of relieving headaches and body absorption levels by 40%.
- Drinking 100 cups of coffee in a streak is another method of committing suicide.
- Extreme overdose starts at 2 grams of caffeine.
- According to British Journal of Addiction, caffeine addiction troubles 1 in every 10 of the population.
- Caffeine reduces the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease in men.
- Caffeine improves short term memory only when the information to be recalled is related to the current line of thought.
- Caffeine prevents dihydrotestosterone (DHT) from damaging hair follicles.
- Caffeine increases sperm movement.
- Caffeine significantly reduces the risk of heart diseases of non-high blood pressure patients.
- Caffeine causes excess release of stomach acids during ingestion. Valuable during buffets.
- Smoking can shorten caffeine’s half-life (time required to decay to half its initial value).
- Give a spider caffeine and and you will notice the speed of it’s web construction.
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Good stuff, caffeine can be wicked.