• Food science
  • Caffeine extraction

    Caffeine Extraction

    Having pure caffeine is essential if you want to prepare your personalized energy drink. You can buy it or, even better, make caffeine extraction yourself. By extracting it from coffee or tea you will probably extract also other substances, which would further personalize your drink. Maybe even enhance the kick-start-me effect. There are several ways […]

  • Food science
  • Caffeine from coffee, tea, matcha, mate, guarana and soft drinks – is there any difference?

    Caffeine differences

    There are many natural sources of caffeine. The problem is that it is called by different names. Either because people want to sound more special (especially when advertising their product) or they simply don’t know. Guaranine, theine, and mateine are all the same substance – caffeine. They just differ in their plant of origin: guarana, […]