I was thinking of saving myself the trouble of drinking coffee in the morning and instead grinding up some coffee beans and swallowing them with water. I know this is more caffeine than coffee itself, so how much caffeine is in a pure coffee bean?
I can handle the taste. It's basically chocolate covered coffee beans without the chocolate haha
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1 Just Thinking // Sep 28, 2008
That would probably taste disgusting and be very unhealthy
2 Tee // Sep 28, 2008
very little
3 Tiffany S // Sep 28, 2008
are you that bored
4 technicolorreyes // Sep 28, 2008
not a ton.
don’t do that you will regret it, it tastes like vomit.
5 Cribber // Sep 28, 2008
Not much, like 1 mg. Problem is that pure coffee beans, consumed regularly, can seriously raise your cholesterol.
6 Kimberly G // Sep 28, 2008
not sure, but figure that an entire pot of coffee is around, what, 50 beans? so one cup would be about 5? they make chocolate covered coffee beans which don’t taste too bad!
7 Casey // Sep 28, 2008
About 3.4 mg of caffeine per bean.
If you rationalize that a cup of coffee has approx. 120 mg of caffeine. It takes approx 35 ground beans to brew only one cup. Divide the two and you can figure that each bean is almost 4 mg.
I don’t recommend doing this though.
8 twrch // Sep 28, 2008
Save yourself the trouble of drinking coffee? I find the term ‘trouble’ offensice
You would probably be better off getting some sort of caffeine pill.
You usually have 100-150mg of caffeine in a cup of coffee, which I would suspect doesn’t take more than 10 or 15 beans to make (I am figuring 100-150 beans per 10-cup pot).
I have no idea how much is in one bean. You should continue to enjoy the creamy goodness of morning coffee. Get a thermos so you can enjoy it all day!!!
9 Michael I // Sep 28, 2008
How much Caffeine is in one cup of coffee? How many beans go into one cup of coffee? You do the math. Besides they make instant coffee that is already ground just use one heaping tablespoon.
10 BrownEyes1 // Sep 28, 2008
a trace, but do not eat a plain coffee bean it is pretty gross.
11 everythingspeachy2000 // Sep 28, 2008
There is only so much caffiene per bean. If there is 5 milligrams of caffiene/bean and you eat 30 beans or make espresso with 30 beans, the most caffiene you can get is 150 milligrams of caffiene. Caffiene is a very easy to extract compound, it goes into water very readily. This is an assumption, I have not checked it in the lab, that pretty close to 100% of the caffiene is received into the body with either approach. The difference lies in the metabolism of the caffiene carrier. A liquid is processed by the body in one fashion and a solid is processed another. I don’t believe there would be a difference in the caffiene content, just in the metabolic rate that it is absorbed into the body. As you can tell by body size, two people metabolism food of all sorts differently. That is why two people with different metabolisms can eat the same food and dramatically have different weight gains/loses. Caffiene intake is going to effect different people the same way. You might eat the beans and get a quicker buzz, or you might drink espresso and get a quicker buzz. It is based in your metabolism more than actual caffiene content.
12 shortgilly // Sep 28, 2008
It depends on the type of bean and the roast. Arabica beans will have a different amount than robusta beans. Darker roasts typically have less (counter intuitively!) than lighter roasts. Further, the amount of caffeine in coffee in rather inconsistent from bean to bean and plant to plant, even in beans grown on the same plant in the same location in the same season.
The logic that you can divide the number of beans per normal cup of brewed coffee is faulty. Water passes over the grounds and not all the caffeine in the bean is brewed into the liquid coffee.
Most available data is based on brewed coffee or chocolate covered bean eaten as a food item. You can factor it will be somewhere between the 2. Or if you feel real ambitious, once you know what kind of beans you’ll be eating you can visit the grower’s or distributor’s website to look for nutrional data.
13 koevolusi // Sep 28, 2008
What do you mean with how much? Is it the percentage of the caffeine or what?