There are high caffeine content warnings now when buying energy drinks such as Redbull and Monster, but these contain less caffeine on average than coffee, so why is the info not there for coffee, given that 80% of UK households buy instant coffee, which I'm sure is a much bigger percentage than the amount of UK households that have cans of energy drink in the fridge? Obviously, I am not suggesting that Caffeine should be made illegal, and if it were then you may as well put the handcuffs on me right now cos I'm never going to stop drinking coffee! The only supermarket available brand I've discovered so far that does tell you the caffeine content is illy, who supplies the information that their caffeinated coffee contains no more than 1.5% caffeine, and their decaffeinated no more than 0.05%, again though this doesn't make it all that simple for a consumer to work out how much caffeine is going to end up in their cup. What About Cups & Glasses?? The size of the coffee grind has an effect on the quality of the flavour. You should always use the correct grind for the type of equipment you are using to enjoy your coffee at its best. However the Douwe Egberts Life style range is ground to work in both cafetiere's and filter machines, but not espresso machines. Sometimes when I make an instant coffee I notice tiny pieces of coffee that didn’t dissolve – what is this?

The most obvious group of people that caffeine really matters to of course is pregnant women, and the NHS recommends a limit of 200mg of Caffeine per day for women during pregnancy.

Which is the best supermarket instant coffee?

It just seems odd to me that this information isn't given, and that there is no legislation to cover it. Gov.UK states that there are special rules when it comes to the labeling of soluble coffee, in terms of what information needs to be displayed, and that these are covered in The Coffee Extracts and Chicory Extracts (England) Regulations 2000, and The Cocoa and Chocolate Products (England) Regulations 2003. This also applies to concentrated or dried drinks that will contain more than 150 milligrams per litre of caffeine when reconstituted. It doesn’t apply to tea and coffee drinks if ‘tea’ or ‘coffee’ are in the name of the food. Selling or possessing other naturally occurring drugs could land you in prison, so why is it that one naturally occurring drug is completely illegal in the UK, but another one can be sold in supermarkets within products without any information regarding how much of the drug it actually contains? A typical cup of decaf coffee has about 2 mg of caffeine, compared to a typical cup of regular coffee, which has about 95 mg of caffeine. How do Kenco Decaffeinated their coffee?

In fact, my son told me the other day (he's 17) that he was challenged for I.D when trying to buy a can of energy drink, based apparently on the fact that they're high in caffeine. I'll bet if he went in and tried to buy a whole trolley full of instant coffee, they wouldn't bat an eyelid. Just seems odd to me. Caffeine is a substance, which occurs naturally in a number of different plants, including those producing coffee, tea and cocoa. In coffee it is just one of more than 1500 constituents that food technologists have been able to isolate and which combine to give coffee its distinctive character.Indication of the amounts per serving/cup are given in the table: Some (not all) people with Epilepsy find that the amount of caffeine they consume appears to have an effect on the occurrence of seizures.When it comes to speciality coffee from small batch roasters, (like my own The Coffeeworks) we know exactly what coffee it is, most of the time it's 100% Arabica, which makes it easy to work out, and if it's an espresso blend with Robusta, roasters usually tell us what the % is, so we can work it out there or thereabouts.

I tip till it looks about right in the bottom of the mug. TWO HEAPED teaspoons is just right! one level 15ml measuring spoon, consistency is everything. How many cups of instant coffee are in a jar? I'm no doctor by the way so please don't take anything I'm saying as medical advice, if you think you should be limiting your caffeine intake then please speak to your doctor.I don't smoke it by the way (or anything else) in case you were thinking that I was biased in some way. I was researching another post about coffee being good for you or not when I stumbled upon what appeared to be a conspiracy involving the big coffee brands! For reasons of hygiene and safety, personal grooming products, cosmetics or items of intimate clothing cannot be returned. Neither of these makes any mention of caffeine, other than the restrictions on labeling a product as decaffeinated, at the time of writing.