Café descafeinado

Consequently we end up with beans with no caffeine and no flavor in one tank, and caffeine-free “flavor charged” water (aka “Green Coffee Extract”) in another tank. The flavorless caffeine-free beans are then discarded, but the flavor rich water is reused to remove the caffeine from a fresh, new batch of coffee beans. Since this water already is saturated with flavor ingredients, the flavors in this fresh batch can’t dissolve; only caffeine moves from the coffee beans to the water.

The result is decaffeination without a massive loss of flavor. This method is almost exclusively used for decaffeination of organic coffee. Coffee decaffeinated using the environment-friendly Swiss Water Process undergoes regular caffeine level audits to ensure compliance to 99.9% caffeine-free.