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Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction

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170 points derbOac | 3 comments | 02 Apr 25 10:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.774s | source
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ndsipa_pomu ◴[02 Apr 25 14:26 UTC] No.43557060[source]▶
What puzzles me about the reported birth of coffee is that I wouldn't expect that just eating the cherries would give you that much of a caffeine kick to be noticeable. Yes, there's a little bit of caffeine in them, but far more in the "beans" (seeds).
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iteria ◴[02 Apr 25 14:51 UTC] No.43557355[source]▶
If you truly detox from caffeine even extremely small amounts will be noticeable. I knew a woman who couldn't eat chocolate because she found the amount of caffeine to be too high. I didn't even know there was caffeine in chocolate.
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recursive ◴[02 Apr 25 14:56 UTC] No.43557395[source]▶
> I knew a woman who couldn't eat chocolate because she found the amount of caffeine to be too high.

I think the causality went the other way in that case. I've been roughly caffeine free at certain intervals. Never felt anything from chocolate.

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1. bryanlarsen ◴[02 Apr 25 15:07 UTC] No.43557528[source]▶
I went almost caffeine free at one point. I once got a good buzz from 300g of 90% chocolate.

I say "almost" caffeine free because I still regularly ate chocolate. So I still had a little tolerance. Yet the difference between 50g of milk chocolate and 300g of 90% was very noticeable.

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2. isoprophlex ◴[02 Apr 25 15:36 UTC] No.43557889[source]▶
Not judging but to me 300 grams of chocolate, dark or otherwise, is an outright obscene amount
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3. bryanlarsen ◴[02 Apr 25 16:31 UTC] No.43558489[source]▶
Go ahead and judge. It was an obscene amount.