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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England)
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Subject: Re: caffeine content (long)
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Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 12:43:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 30 12:43:24 1984
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 > The following chart is provided by the Center for Science in
 > the Public Interest. Figures supplied by individual companies
 > and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
The numbers provided by the Food and Drug Administration don't quite
match the ADA numbers.  I have shown the FDA numbers here.

PRODUCT			 	    Caffeine Content
				     (milligrams)
				ADA	FDA
Coffee (5 oz.)
 Regular brewed
   percolated			110.0   40-170 (80 nom.)
   drip				150.0 	60-180 (115 nom.)

 Regular, instant		66.0	30-120 (65 nom.)

 Decaffeinated
   brewed			4.5	1-5 (3 nom.)
   instant			2.0	1-5 (2 nom.)

Soft Drinks (12 oz.)
 Dr. Pepper			61.0	39.6
 Sugar Free Dr. Pepper			39.6
 Mr. Pibb			57.0	40.8
 Sugar Free Mr. Pibb			58.8
 Mello Yello			52.0	52.8
 Mountain Dew			49.0	54.0
 Tab				45.0	46.8
 Coke				42.0	45.6
 Diet Coke				45.6
 Shasta Cola				44.4
 Shasta Cherry Cola			44.4
 Shasta Diet Cola			44.4
 RC Cola			36.0	36.0
 Diet Rite				36.0
 Big Red (regular/sugar free)		38.4
 Pepsi				35.0	38.4
 Diet Pepsi			34.0	36.0
 Pepsi Light				36.0
 Aspen				33.0	36.0
 Kick					31.2
 Canada Dry Jamaica Cola		30.0
 Canada Dry Diet Cola			 1.2


Tea (5 oz.)
 Brewed for 5 min.(dom.)	45.0	20-90 (40 nom.)
 Brewed for 5 min.(imp.)	    	25-110 (60 nom.)

Cocoa (5 oz.)			13.0

Milk Chocolate (1 oz.)		6.0

Drugs (1 tablet)
 Vivarin			200.0
 Nodoz				100.0
 Excederin			65.0
 Vanquish			33.0
 Empirin Compound		32.0
 Anacin				32.0
 Dristan			16.2*

 *The Dristan I buy nowadays have a new, caffeine and
 aspirin free formula.
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The FDA numbers came from an AP news release on 3/15/84.

Allen
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