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Caffeine Database

Coffee (Brewed): 13.4 MG of caffeine/Fluid Ounce

Tea (Brewed): 5.9 of caffeine/Fluid Ounce

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Most of the drinks in question are not the functional equivalent of a rum and coke. We're talking more along the lines of a no-doze with a shot of rum as a chaser.

Thanks, you pushed me to look up the numbers.

Bud Extra seems to have 54mg of caffeine in a 10-oz can (CSPI settlement document.)

A No-Doze has 200mg of caffeine.

Coke Classic is 2.8mg/oz, or in a half-can mixed drink 16.8mg, so that's indeed not equivalent.

However, drip coffee is 18.1mg/oz (I know, overly precise for an average).

The top two google recipes for Irish Coffee call for 6 or 8 oz. Taking the conservative 6, that nets 109mg caffeine and one oz whisky, which should be about the same alcohol as a can of beer.

So, Irish coffee is double the concentration of caffeine to alcohol as the Bud product. If you can figure out when coffee beans were first imported to Ireland, you'll know when the first Irish coffee was made (perhaps without the sugar and cream - that appears to be a US thing from the mid 20th century.)

How much caffeine do you drink per day? I think a lot of the disparity is due to the fact that we (rightly) keep younger people from using caffeine and other stimulants.

You might want to take a look around you - teenagers now seem to be way, waaay more caffeinated than I was at that age - I would have a coke now and again, and the occasional coffee before school, but dem-darn-kids-nowadays guzzle energy drinks like Monster and Redbull at an alarming rate. Not a particularly scientific observation on my part, but others seem to have noticed. Also, check out the caffeine database.

Bawls kind of sucks for caffeine content, try Mana, it has more caffeine per ounce than any other energy drink.

Check out this chart, and plan accordingly.

I personally stay away from energy drinks and soft-drinks. I've noticed that sugar is far more likely to give me insomnia and the jitters than caffeine. That and the other side effects of too much sugar intake of course. Most energy drinks taste like ass, as well. Bawls is pretty good, much better than Redbull, but it has far less caffeine than a grande drip from Starbucks.

Well, according to this: If you weigh 160 lbs, coffee is okay unless you drink 101.58 cups of it.

According to 'death by caffeine', for a 200 pound person:

Pepsi: Death after 359 cans
Coke: 401.47 cans
Dr. Pepper: 332.93 cans
Jolt: 62.05 cans

Espresso has about half the caffeine of coffee due to the dark roast.

Espresso seems to have a lot higher caffeine density than normal coffee... at least twice.

http://coffeetea.about.com/library/blcaffeine.htm

Double Espresso (2 oz): 45-100mg (22 to 50mg per ounce)
Brewed coffee (8 oz): 60-120 mg (7.5 to 15mg per ounce)

http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database/

Coffee (Brewed) 13.44 mg/oz
Coffee (Decaf, Brewed) 0.70 mg/oz
Coffee (Decaf, Instant) 0.31 mg/oz
Coffee (Drip) 18.13 mg/oz
Coffee (Espresso) 51.33 mg/oz

To answer the original question: 315 to 720 mg total!
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Not sure about the accuracy of this page, but it's got almost all of the drinks I've ever seen. http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database/

You must pop a lot of pills. Diet Coke has 46mg of caffeine per 12 ounce can. Your 4 liters is about 11 cans, or 500mg of caffeine. Unless you guzzle coffee, instead of enjoying it, and use far less milk than you indicate, you aren't getting your 2g by drinking it.

Try this page: Death by Caffeine to give you an idea of how much you would have to drink to reach lethal levels of caffeine. It will take 300 cans of Diet Coke to reach a lethal dosage for a 200 pound person; for Starbucks Double Shot - 105 cans; for espresso 177 shots. Since you mentioned drinking a lot of Diet Coke, that translates into 28 gallons or 106 liters of Diet Coke.

Want to find out how much caffeine can kill you? Try this site:

Death by caffeine

Many of the waste substances, including plutonium-239, emit alpha radiation, which travels for only very short distances (barely a few hundredths of a millimeter) in the ceramic, but creates havoc along the way.

Here's the text of the review of Redline, though.

Quite Possibly the Most Powerful Energy Drink Ever
October 7th, 2005 3:34 pm

Seriously, the drink may mean the end of this blog. In the before time, conversations generally went a little something like this:

So, whats a good energy drink in terms of strength?

Well theres a lot to choose from, based on caffeine content, taurine, ginseng, green tea extracts

Well what if Im just interested in caffeine content?

Well just go to The Caffeine Database and look around!

The point, probably lost, is that theres a lot of drinks, in varying sizes and caffeine contents, that also contain a lot of other things.

So then this new thing came out. Its called VPX Redline Fat Burner. Amazon is lacking a little information, so heres a little more:

Check out this freaky scientific VPX breakthrough: RED LINE®: is the only matrix ever developed to shred fat through the shivering response in the body. By shivering the body burns huge amounts of stored bodyfat for energy in an effort to keep the body warm. Thats not all! In addition to shivering, youll also be sweating up a thermogenic storm. The combined mechanisms of these two processes results in unparalleled fat loss!

What fun. Now, its pretty obvious looking at the ingredients that theres caffeine. But get this: all of the aforementioned goodness, and the serving size is FOUR ml. About one TENTH of an ounce. The whole bottle has 240 ml, or 60 servings. Basically, a bottle of this, less than the size of a normal can of coke, WILL kill you. This is nothing to be playing around with.

I have friends. Not just normal friends, mind you. The kind of friends that voluntarily live on the streets. The kind of friends who, when drinking, race to forgetting. The kind of friends who take caffeine pills, ephedrine pills, and asprin.. all at once. One, in particular, drinks and consumes over a gram of caffeine daily, to stave off the headaches. So you know this is a serious review:

oh yeah, its definately 90% caffeine. the aftertaste is unmistakeable. the best part is that since i didnt have my normal dose this morning, i probably wont actually feel sh*t.

[10 minutes later]

the caffeine kicked in a lot faster than i expected. though in retrospect, it normally does when its in syrup form and tastes like ass.

feel oddly cold too. took me a minute to realize that while i still was warm, it was that shiver reflex kicking in. its a lot like when
you get a chill at the back of your neck, but somewhat continuous.

So whats in this magical bottle of awesome? Caffeine, Green Tea, Yerba Mate, 5-HTP (5 hydroxy-1-tryptophan), cAMP, Yohimbe, Evodiamine, and Vinpocetine. And a few other things.

I know, I know, so heres some more info:

cAMP is cyclic adenosine monophosphate. It supposedly sparks many intercellular processes. Whatever that means. Increased concentrations supposedly raise thyroid horomone levels, and help fat burning (would help explain why its in a fat-burning supplement).

Yohimbe is a bark extract from a tree in Africa. Its considered a natural aphrodisiac, and sold here to treat imotency, dialate pupils, and stimulate fat loss. It can also mess with your blood pressure, so watch out.

Evodiamine is derived from some Chinese fruit called Evodia Rutaecarpa. Supposedly burns fat.

Vinpocetine is an alkaloid derived from some periwinkle plant. It is used in Europe, Japan, and Mexico to treat crebrovascular and cognitive disorders. Some people claims it elevates metabolism, but with no proof.

And the interesting one in the group: 5-HTP. I made sure to spell it out, so the smart ones in the group have already figured out the key: Tryptophan. It

How many do I have to drink before I'm dead?

You are going to die soon.

But have you notice how many drinks of coffee it takes to kill you?

Well, how much caffeine drinks DOES it take to kill you though? Ha! For me it's 100.31 cups of Brewed Coffee.

You would'nt make it. According to Death by Caffeine, it would take 269.41 cans of Pepsi or 102.38 shots of espresso to kill a 150 pound person.

I assume this uses the LD50 rating for caffeine, which is 192 Mg / Kg when orally administered to rats.