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- From: jpalmer@onetouch.COM (John Palmer)
- Subject: Re: Bearcats (was: T-Bear replies!)
- Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:57:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.175751.15867@onetouch.COM>
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- Just a word on soft drink caffeine:
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- The max the FDA allows is 6 milligrams of caffeine per fluid ounce of a
- soft drink. Any more and it'd be considered a drug. Jolt has this maximum;
- Mountain Dew is pretty close behind. That means that the two of them have
- almost 96 mg per 16 oz bottle/serving. Most of the rest are about 3 mg per
- ounce. Coke, for example, is almost exactly 3 mg per ounce, so it has 48 mg
- per 16 oz bottle. (16 oz is close to 500 ml.) (Actually, it's 30 ml make up
- one ounce. . . never mind.).
-
- Now, a cup (6, note, SIX ounces of coffee) has approx 100 mg caffeine,
- which is one 'low power' caffeine pill, or half of a high power one. The
- normal mug is 12 oz, which means 200 mg of caffeine.
-
- That means that coffee, ounce for ounce, is close to twice the level of
- caffeine in jolt or mountain dew, and four times the level of cafeine in coke
- or pepsi. Just something to keep in mind.
-
- Final note: Caffeine has a halflife in the average body of 3.5 hours. Keep
- this in mind when studying late. . . :-)
-
- John
- "I was a GRAD student! Of course I knew my caffeine!"
-
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