Naturally Caffeine Free

Coffee News from around the World of Coffee (Winter 2007)

Reports have come in that coffee trees which are naturally free of caffeine are about to be brought into Australia for the first time. Linda Jacques, a coffee grower from Mareeba in Far North Queensland, has secured the rights to bring the first natural caffeine-free coffee trees into the country. The trees were apparently discovered by Brazilian scientists in Ethiopia some years ago and Jacques says she will bring them in once they are cross-bred with a higher yielding strain.

Currently, caffeine is extracted from coffee beans via a chemical process [injecting with carbon dioxide at high pressure] or through treatment with hot water, but both of these methods affect its taste. Theoretically, naturally caffeine-free coffee beans are the ideal solution, as they would give a full-flavoured espresso, without the caffeine hit. (ABC News Online)

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