Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!convex.csd.uwm.edu!duncan From: duncan@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Shan D Duncan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Nothing, really... (Caffeine) Message-ID: <8880@uwm.edu> Date: 12 Jan 91 17:41:51 GMT References: <17430@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: duncan@convex.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 69 Originator: duncan@convex.csd.uwm.edu From article <17430@cbmvax.commodore.com>, by daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie): > In article <641@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes: >>In article <6836@crash.cts.com> hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson) writes: >>> Jolt is kids' stuff too :-) Real men take Vivarin. >>Yeesh. I swore off that stuff when I was an undergrad senior... > > We've been waiting for Diet Jolt. We figure it would have Cyclamate in it. > >>> Each little capsule >>>has 200 milligrams of caffeine. About the same as two cups of coffee, >>>but when taking 2 capsuls I'd swear it's a lot more than 4 cups! This >>>brings up another question: how much caffeine is in Coke or Pepsi? >>>Milligram-wise or coffee equivilent-wise, whichever way you might know. > >>I've heard that 2 12oz Cokes == 1 cup coffee. > > Back in the foggy reaches of my brain, I used to know the caffine numbers. As > I recall, a cup of coffee maxes out at about 160mg of caffine, depending on > who made it. Soda (Pop, Tonic, etc) has some legal limit (since in all cases > the caffine is added, not subtracted, to make up for the fact that Coca extract > is no longer legal), maybe around 80mg. Teas vary greatly, but never get over > 120mg or so. Again, that's from memory, and could even be out of date; I > don't know the latest in caffine technology. I do recall that, in college, > Vivarin were preferable to NoDoze -- NoDoze claimed to be the equivalent of a > cup of coffee, at 150mg, while Vivarin was 200mg, and often cheaper (not being > such a name brand). > >>Dave Schaumann | You are in a twisty maze of little > > > -- > Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" > {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy > "Don't worry, 'bout a thing. 'Cause every little thing, > gonna be alright" -Bob Marley This is from an article by Ted Bahr in Computer Language April 1989 pp. 123--125. Classic Coca-Cola Diet Coke Mouantain Jolt Pepsi Dr. Pepper Coca-cola Dew Cal. 144 154 0 129 170 159 144 Sugar 37.2 40 .3 44.4 NA 39.6 38 (grams) Caffeine 46.0 46.0 46.0 54.0 71.2 38.4 40.8 (mg) all are per 12 fl. oz. His recommendation for Unix programs is any Coke product. Pepsi lacked the punch, as did Dr. Pepper. Mouantain Dew while having the next highest punch then Jolt was too sweet. Jolt although the clear winner in performance was too "jarring" fro prolonged use but excellent for short bursts or quick patches. -Shan Duncan Department. of Biological Sciences University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI. 53201