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Maybe the extracted caffeine has some market value that can make up for some of the cost of extracting it.


Dry Arabica beans are about 1.5% caffeine by weight. Synthetic caffeine costs maybe $40 per kilogram, wholesale. A kilogram of beans could have perhaps $0.60 worth of caffeine extracted from it, unless there's a price premium for "all natural" caffeine extracted from beans.


I’ve seen it marketed as “organic caffeine” in some beverages. Organic coffee was the base.

Bit of an eye roll from me, but hey whatever.




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