7 unexpected products containing caffeine
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Often caffeine is indispensable when you need to increase concentration, attention and relieve stress. According to experts, modern people consume caffeine in much larger quantities than they once did. A person sees in caffeine the ability to quickly tone up the body and get a charge of vivacity. Doctors say that for a healthy person the optimal dose of caffeine is 2-3 cups of coffee a day (250 milligrams). This amount is not dangerous and allows you to "wake up" the body.
However, excessive craving for caffeine causes dependence, which is fraught with such consequences as increased excitability, dehydration, sleep disturbance, anxiety and frustration of the gastrointestinal tract.
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If you want to reduce the dose of caffeine consumed, then you will be useful to know that caffeine is contained not only in coffee, but in some other products. Sometimes very unexpected.
Decaffeinated coffee
The name itself says that the drink promises to have the same taste and aroma, but not contain caffeine. However, this is only a nominal name. A typical cup of coffee contains 100 milligrams of caffeine, and in the so-called "decaffeinated coffee" - 20.
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Cola
Coke and all similar drinks made on its basis, contain caffeine. Per 100 grams of nourishment can account for 7 milligrams of caffeine.
Chocolate
In any chocolate there is this stimulant, because it is in cocoa beans. And the darker the chocolate, the more caffeine in it. And in some types of this sweet treats contain even more caffeine because of additional enrichment.
Ice cream
Ice cream in chocolate or with chocolate syrup - any where chocolate is present, also contains caffeine. 100 grams of the product accounts for 30 to 45 milligrams of caffeine.
Diet pills
Indeed, caffeine helps to make the figure slimmer, and the waist is thinner, but some manufacturers abuse its amount at a dosage, so be sure to pay attention to the composition of the drug.
Analgesics
Caffeine in small amounts helps to cope with a headache, but if you go too far, you get the opposite effect - painful migraines.
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Energetic drinks
It is on caffeine that the toning action of such drinks is based. The danger is that manufacturers do not always indicate the exact amount of caffeine in the drink.