Healthy, Sleeping, Coffee

Excerpts from an article by the Sleep Doctor, Michael J. Breus, PhD

“…coffee can be a healthy part of life–it doesn’t have to mess with your sleep.” There are a multitude of benefits that accompany coffee drinking, and now we have one more reason to add to the list: it can cut the risk of stroke in

Water, water in Coffee and water with Coffee

About water we may speak volumes and much more than what we might read in books, we may experience ourselves with all we have – skin, hairs, kidneys and more…

About Water there was an interesting documentary film I saw some time ago from Udo Maurer. Very different approaches and needs are the topic of this cinematic work, simply called “About Water” (translated from the German original – “Über Wasser”). Three different stories are told: about flood, drought and pollution and we are able to see the very different needs

Caffeine

Caffeine is found in several products. Its scientific name is Trimethylxanthine and it was isolated as such for the first time by Friedrich Ferdinand Runge, a German chemist towards the beginning of the 19th century. However, since the stone age people have been using this “drug”, at first as a medicine.

The amount found in coffee depends especially on the type of brewing chosen

Here is a list of the caffeine content on different drinks and products.

1 – 4 mg = coffee without caffeine

2 – 6 mg = cocoa cup

15 mg = milk chocolate bar (100 g)

20 – 50 mg = black tea (cup)

23 mg = Coca-Cola (bottle)

25 mg = Pepsi-Cola (bottle)

32 mg = Red Bull (100 ml)

37 mg = Mountain Dew

50 – 80 mg = 1 Espresso

65 – 100 mg = 1 cup of instant coffee

80 – 115 mg = 1 cup of filter coffee (u

up to 90 mg = Bitter dark chocolate (100 g)

up to 130 mg = 1 Mokka

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in dried state:

- unroasted coffee beans (0,7 – 2,5%)

- roasted coffee beans (about 20% mehr)

- black tea (1 – 4,5%)

- Maté (0,3 – 1,5%)

- Guaraná (4 -  9%) by 100 g

- cola nuts (about 1,5%)

- cocoa seeds (about 0,2%)

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sources:
www.tee.org
www.kaffeeverband.de
www.kaffeewiki.de