# Caffeine...how do we get rid of it?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 11, 2000, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-how-do-we-get-rid-of-it/10105 "2000-04-11T15:58:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![TrayJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@TrayJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TrayJay)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-how-do-we-get-rid-of-it/10105/1 "2000-04-11T15:58:00Z")

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How do they de-caffeinate coffee beans?

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**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-how-do-we-get-rid-of-it/10105/2 "2000-04-11T16:02:00Z")

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One word…  
Chemicals.

And not the mind expanding kind.

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Sex is like bridge: If you don’t have a good partner, you better have a good hand.  
– Charles Pierce

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**Author:** ![Zor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/848f3c/32.png) [@Zor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zor)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-how-do-we-get-rid-of-it/10105/3 "2000-04-11T16:12:00Z")

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And a quick search on the web for “decaffeination process” turns up…  
[http://www.frontiercoop.com/coffee/notes/coffee.notes.no5.html](http://www.frontiercoop.com/coffee/notes/coffee.notes.no5.html)

and  
[http://crystal.biol.csufresno.edu:8080/projects98/554.html](http://crystal.biol.csufresno.edu:8080/projects98/554.html)

and etc. etc.