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Thursday, December 09, 2004  Lesspresso  I was very excited to find chocolate-covered espresso beans at Chef's Market yesterday, and bought a half-pound container to keep in my desk as a pick-me-up. After snarfing down five of them about half an hour ago, I decided to look up the caffeine content to see how many I could eat without getting overly jittery—five, ten, fifteen?—and made the depressing discovery that they don't have nearly as much caffeine as I expected: only 3-5 mg per bean. (Via the Caffeine FAQ at coffeefaq.com.) You'd have to eat 30 to 50 of them to get the same amount of caffeine you'd get from drinking a 7-oz. cup of coffee. Humph, some waker-upper these are turning out to be. (Tasty, though. And without the risks of hot liquids that can burn you or stain your clothing or the inconvenience of pills you have to take with water.) [ at 5:02 PM • by Abby • permalink •   ]

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