Douwe Egberts Pure Indulgence Dark Roast Instant Coffee 190g (Pack of 6 Jars, Total 1.14kg)

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I'm focusing on instant coffee here because such a high percentage of the UK population consumes it, and because it's usually a blend of Arabica and Robusta, and since we don't know what the % is, it's difficult to work out the approximate caffeine content per cup. It just seems odd to me that this information isn't given, and that there is no legislation to cover it. Actually, they made a mistake initially and told me there were 3.4 grams of caffeine in Nescafe Original, 2.3 grams in Gold Blend, and so on – which would be an insanely high caffeine content, but it seems they just made an error when trying to convert from mg to g.

The majority of ground or whole bean brands available from the supermarket though don't provide much more info than the instant brands do. I was also trying to work out how much caffeine in Nescafé Original too, so I can use it to wean myself off coffee. In another post (link [1] below), they cite 170mg per 5g serving, which would equal 34mg per 1g.Flavor: Mild enough that the bitterness is not overwhelming, very little flavor at all, quite bland, subtle roasted grains. They list decaf among the alternatives along with water and fruit juice, which would seem to imply that decaf has no caffeine? Decaf isn't caffeine-free, it's reduced. In Europe, it has to be 99% caffeine-free, i.e. no more than 1% caffeine. But I did discover something very surprising, and this is the apparent disregard by the big coffee brands when it comes to communicating the content of caffeine in instant coffee brands to their customers, and the fact that there appears to be no obligation for them to do so. By the way, if you're ready to leave the instant behind and up your coffee game, see:

But what about clear labeling with regards to caffeine per serving, in a way that is easy to measure, such as xxmg per heaped teaspoon? How about ground coffee & beans? Thinking of grinding your own beans? This is one of the best ways to dramatically improve the quality of coffee at home: I tip till it looks about right in the bottom of the mug. TWO HEAPED teaspoons is just right! one level 15ml measuring spoon, consistency is everything. How many cups of instant coffee are in a jar? Obviously, I am not suggesting that Caffeine should be made illegal, and if it were then you may as well put the handcuffs on me right now cos I'm never going to stop drinking coffee!Caffeine content matters because caffeine is a stimulant, and there are people who are advised to limit how much of it they consume.

Drinks that contain more than 150 milligrams per litre of caffeine with the words will have ‘High caffeine content. Not recommended for children or pregnant or breast-feeding women’ written on the label. They all tell you how much fat there isn't, how much sugar there isn't, how much salt there isn't, but the one thing coffee certainly DOES contain, is caffeine, they completely ignore. Strange? In fact, my son told me the other day (he's 17) that he was challenged for I.D when trying to buy a can of energy drink, based apparently on the fact that they're high in caffeine. I'll bet if he went in and tried to buy a whole trolley full of instant coffee, they wouldn't bat an eyelid. Just seems odd to me.If it said for example xxmg of caffeine per heaped teaspoon of coffee approx, that would make sense. So that's great, tell me how much there is of stuff which of course instant coffee granules are going to contain hardly any of, but leave out the most important active ingredient in coffee, the DRUG caffeine, and leave me to guess how much of that each serving contains. The same is true of Tesco's own brands of coffee, and Mellow Birds. Nescafe shares the fact that they use a blend of Arabica and Robusta for instance, at least with some of their coffees, although they don't share the percentage of Robusta vs Arabica which would be helpful information if you were trying to figure out how much caffeine is in each cup since Robusta contains a lot more caffeine. Thinking of buying a coffee machine? Read Mugs can vary in size from about 6 ounce to 17 ounce or even bigger, so if I were making a 12 ounce cup of coffee, for instance, I'd probably use double the amount of coffee, and therefore caffeine, than I would if I were making a 6-ounce cup.