Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR) is engaged in the specialty coffee and coffee maker businesses. The Company roasts Arabica bean coffees, including single-origin, Fair Trade Certified ...

If you come across a decaf coffee that claims to be totally caffeine-free, beware. Like most tea, all coffee contains caffeine. Samuel Klein, green coffee buyer for Brooklyn-based Partners Coffee ...

During the manufacturing process, decaf producers add solvents like methylene chloride or ethyl acetate (an alternative derived from sugarcane) to bind to the caffeine in green coffee beans.

Decaf coffee is made by stripping green, unroasted coffee beans of their caffeine content and relies on the fact that caffeine dissolves in water. Three main methods are used for removing caffeine ...

Bob Stiller, the longtime CEO of Green Mountain Coffee, always had an eye for offbeat opportunities. In the 1970s, he launched E-Z Wider rolling papers to cater to marijuana smokers who wanted ...

The resulting sparkling water is drained and the now-decaf beans are roasted. In the Swiss water method, green coffee beans are soaked in hot water to release soluble compounds and caffeine.