BBC News Magazine: Coffee addiction: Do people consume too much caffeine?

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Originally Posted by STEED

I too agree people can not tell if they are drinking caffeine or not, as for flavor well you can no question as cheap coffee has a twang about it.

Oh, you can, no doubt on that, but many people have ruined their tongues with industrial food for too long, maybe. Extracting the caffeine inevitably comes at the cost of reducing the level of aromes and oils a tiny little bit - and you taste that. I for sure do, no matter which brand. Oil, like fat, is a taste carrier. And missing aromes: well, are missing aromes. So far no caffeine extraction method is known that avoids these losses.