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Scientist Develops Caffeinated Baked Goods
Zephyros writes "The AP is reporting on a scientist who has found a way to get caffeine into donuts, bagels, and other baked goods without the bitter flavor. Each piece has as much caffeine as two cups of coffee. No word on when or where they will be available, but for those of us that just don't get the same kick from the morning cuppa that we used to, this may be another tasty delivery vector to look forward to for that jump-start."
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"You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
...that this was an American scientist?
DURHAM. N.C. (AP) -- That cup of coffee just not getting it done anymore? How about a Buzz Donut or a Buzzed Bagel? That's what Doctor Robert Bohannon, a Durham, North Carolina, molecular scientist, has come up with. Bohannon says he's developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods, without the bitter taste of caffeine. Each piece of pastry is the equivalent of about two cups of coffee.
While the product is not on the market yet, Bohannon has approached some heavyweight companies, including Krispy Kreme, Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks about carrying it. Not much of an article.. No substantial information regarding caffeine content. I was looking forward to comparing this to Sky Rockets and Bawlz.
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Given how many products are suddenly having caffeine added to them, I wonder how long it will take before somebody does something really stupid with all of these products, and deliberately or inadvertently manages to harm themself or someone else. It doesn't take all THAT much caffeine to cause some pretty nasty side effects, especially if you don't drink it all that often.
Gee, just what the world needed. At least the donuts won't just promote diabetes anymore.
"The AP is reporting on a cop who has found a way to get caffeine into donuts... Thats better
Of course, ThinkGeek has probably already placed their order....
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Caffeinated Bacon is what I'm waiting for. I hope to see the Transgenic Speedpig flying to a future breakfast table.
Just what the world needs.
/. doesn't have an "Only in America" tag?
As if sugar-soaked foods like donuts and those goddawful "Twinkies" aren't bad enough, some moronic scientist has to discover another addiction vector to get weak willed and stupid plebians hooked on their diabetes and heart disease industry recruitment products.
How come
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His jazzed donuts actually paid off, then. (I didn't say "jizzed", so don't git any stupid ideas.)
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Still no cure for cancer. Good to know research money is well spent.
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...people have been doing this with Marijuana for years.
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Great! Now we can get both fat and high!
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My normal morning brew:
4 heaped tea spoons of instant espresso mixed with half a cup of boiling water. Repeat on the hour every hour.
This isn't sufficient to keep me awake in meetings. Caffeine is rubbish, any effect is has is psychosomatic at best. Fortunately these days I *run* meetings and generally manage to keep them to 15 minutes or less. Anyone who can't get to the point and make a decision inside 15 minutes isn't worth employing anyway.
Beep beep.
It's a stimulant, right? Sometimes the war on drugs just makes me shake my head. We flip out about baseball players taking greenies, and then say "well, they can just drink coffee or Coke instead!" Truly bizarre.
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It's time Slashdot introduced a new icon for stooopid bad science. Maybe Einstein with wearing a dunce cap? Or Homer Simpson wearing lab coat?
Is this sig nificant?
This gives coffee cake a whole new meaning.
Caffeine-aholics rejoice!
Do all those Japanese green tea flavored cookies and ice cream and such have caffeine in them, I wonder? (They're made using matcha, which is ground dried tea leaves...)
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1) You were always able to dunk your doughnuts in coffee - thus adding both a pleasant flavor and caffine to the doughnuts. (Hence the name Dunkin' Donuts).
2) WTF! Really!?!? What is so totally wrong with our food that we have to add stimulants. We've already f'ed up chicken to the point where almost all of it is covered in a bacteria because it's washed in it's own s**t! Your milk and beef is so full of hormones and anti-biotics we're passing them into the sewage system and it's making mutant fish! WTF! What's next? Prozac bacon? Tylenol bagels? Or how about chocolate cake with appetite suppressants?
Hmm... Why do I seem so upset and uptight about this? Maybe it's because, like most Americans, I drink caffine all friggin' day!
On a side note - I don't think Mormons can eat caffinated foods.
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I never knew of caffeine as being bitter by itself until this article. I believe we already have donuts with caffeine, its called chocolate.
I saw the headlines on the news sites, and I thought... surely slashdot will pick this one up... this is certainly news that matters! This could get interesting... I mean, sure it starts with donuts... but in the future I imagine pokey office space looking endorser testimony about how they can't get going in the morning without their spiked tofu... "Man this 'jolt(tm) yogurt' really keeps me awake!"
Speak for yourself.
It's called "dunking your donut in your morning coffee"
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Caffeinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? Admiral Crunch?
Wasn't ENHANCING flavor Coca-Cola's excuse for putting caffeine in nearly all their products?
Freaking rats.
"Caffeinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? ADMIRAL Crunch?!?"
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I'm telling you true, what I really want is caffeinated milk, that's what to do. Man, I love skim milk, and if it were wired, I'd be racing around just like a cow siren yelling, "MoooOOOoooOOOoooOOOoooOOOoooOOO!!!"
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I wouldn't draw conclusions about the caffeine content of matcha (powdered green tea) from the content of brewed leaf green tea. One of them is the stuff that readily dissolves into hot water from dried tea leaves; the other one is the whole of the leaves, ground into a fine power, and then dissolved in water.
Googling is only giving me contradictory claims as to which has more caffeine, so far.
Are you adequate?
As in, WHO FRICKIN CARES?? OOh, caffeine, we are nerds and somehow are linked to caffeine, so this is SO NEAT. WOW!! Morons.
It's just something else to keep me awake and make my butt bigger....
Now, if they can do it in a calorie-free version, I'll be impressed.
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What is so new about that? Just go and visit your grandma and ask her for some her delicious coffee cake...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Maybe they should have asked a baker, instead of a scientist?
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But only in situations where having a cup of coffee is not plausible. I love the smell and taste of coffee too much, you can't really replace that or reduce it to a caffeine pill.
That said, I do sometimes drink energy drinks as a replacement for coffee (for example, when driving longer trips, and leaving early). I could see some edible form of caffeine intake replacing the energy drinks: I don't like them that much, but I need my caffeine. But it would have to be something even remotely healthy and filling, I can't really imagine eating donuts first thing in the morning.
Any more caffeine and this is what your next interview with Dick Cheney will sound like.
What?
Double breve and two caffeinated doughnuts.
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
to paraphrase father guido sarducci, it's an insult to both coffee and cake!
Parent wouldn't be flamebait if it came with a source, since this is one of the scare tactics used in the anti-drugs moral panic of the 1930s. Racism, prohibition, fear and ignorance are all intimately linked.
...a caffeinated birthday cake!
I already have a high blood pressure, thank you, and am using pills to regulate it a bit. These days, I'm drinking only green tea. Eating something like these "goods" (or rather "bads" for me...) would be a death wish. Which I really really don't have. I hope that products like these will be clearly marked as containing caffeine or similar substances.
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Uhm.. if you aren't getting that "same kick" anymore, it's likely that you've built up a tolerance to caffiene. Switching from coffee to a "caffienated donut" isn't goint to help your problem at all. Either drink more coffee/caffienated bevarage or quit cold turkey for a few days then try again.
For the a while a couple cups of joe weren't doing anything for me. I quit for a week, then was wired off of half of a cup. I'd say try that instead of this silly caffeniated food business.
Coffee is good, caffeine is just a side effect. But then again I pay 0.30-0.60 for a nice espresso.
I was one of those persons. I had had some racing heart problems for some time before my Atrial Fibrullation kicked in. The evening before I had the serious problems, I had a super-sized cup of iced-tea.
I see one problem as the oversizing of food portions in general. I have found that we simply don't need to eat nearly as much as we do - and all the overweight people I see around me are proof of that. I eat about 1/3 what I used to eat. I desire to eat more because I love food. When I was little, I was always taught to eat what was on my plate. No more. The portions served at restaurants are ridiculous (I travel a great deal). The waitresses typically ask me if I didn't like the food. I generally do, but I only need about 1/4 to 1/3 of what they serve.
For the purposes of this story, I don't think anybody needs caffeine. At all. Yes, it's my opinion, live with it. Since my bout with a-fib I have cut out all intake of caffiene, with the exception of a bite of chocolate (about 1/6 of a bar of chocolate at a sitting). At the beginning, this was hard. It was about a week of tourture (and frankly wasn't all that bad in the overall scheme of things). Since then, while I would like to have a drink of Dr. Pepper on occasion, I have been just fine. I don't need a pick-me-up to get me started, or get me through the day. Proper sleep and eating small portions will perk you right up. Don't forget a little exercise goes a long way.
I'm waiting for the next best thing!! Donut's flavoured coffee!
I knew there were ways to misuse caffeine I hadn't found. If I get my back/knees in order enough to do heavy lifting, I'll remember this...
(I modded this up, but I just needed to say thanks for reinstating my belief in humanity.)
I also think the grandparent had good attitudes to meetings.
If adopted by these large companies, it will be a liability morass.
They are going to add an addictive stimulant into cheap, unhealthy
food, and then sell it to the public? Sounds just peachy. Cha-CHING!
This idea makes the fast food and the tobacco industry look a lot less evil.
Have people gone completely insane?
You are doing it wrong. Donuts should be fried.
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It seems to me that the addition of pharmaceutical grade caffeine to food items that ordinarily have none is one step down the slippery slope toward its eventual demonization and illegality. I am surprised it didn't happen a lot sooner, considering that cola drinks are likewise "spiked" unnecessarily. I have to imagine this is an historical artifact of the Coca-Cola switch from cocaine to caffeine. The dangers are not so overt, so it was ignored for so long as to become entrenched.
Of course, cannabis also is fairly short on dangers, but you can thank Reefer Madness and yellow journalism for that one. Opium was likewise entrenched, but the dangers of addiction and overdose have been known for almost as long.
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You will give me your baked goods for my bunghole!
A girl I knew in my hometown OD'ed on caffeine and died. Basically the story that I got was she was taking too many pills, drinking coffee and worked herself to death.
There sounds like there could be a lot of confounding factors at work there besides caffeine. It's not unheard of for people to "work themselves to death" due to lack of sleep and the associated immuno-compromising effects, coupled with a high-stress environment; I think the caffeine use there is probably more likely a symptom than the actual cause.
I think the lesson here is not that the substance per se is unsafe, but that almost anything that makes it even slightly easier for people to exceed their physical capacities or ignore their body's warning signs can lead to disaster, when used improperly.
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WTF is this news? I occasionally mix instant coffee into my brownies for excellent results. It's even more fun when I mix instant coffee into pot brownies; wired stoners are so funny!
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