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Coffea Charrieriana
As it is common knowledge, decaf coffee has caffeine maybe not as much as regular coffee, but it does have caffeine. A lot of people who are sensitive to caffeine continue searching for alternatives to coffee without caffeine. There are substitutes like roasted chicory root which is naturally caffeine free that some people use that as a substitute to coffee. The good news is that a newly discovered solution has presented itself in the form of a naturally caffeine free coffee!
It’s often said that, like tea and chocolate, coffee naturally contains caffeine. But there’s much more to it than that. It turns out that different coffee varieties have naturally differing amounts of caffeine. For example, Arabica coffee has about 2/3 the amount of caffeine that Robusta coffee has. But there’s one coffee plant that’s especially unique in this regard, because it has NO CAFFEINE.
It’s called Coffea charrieriana, or Charrier coffee, and it’s a naturally caffeine-free coffee. Coffea charrieriana is a species of flowering plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is a coffee plant from Cameroon that is newly discovered. Unlike the many popular types of Arabica and Robusta beans we find in commercially produced coffee, Charrier coffee is from a different variety of the coffee plant which is not yet commercially produced. It was only discovered in the year 2008 by Professor André Charrier, whose focus for 30 years was gathering and researching different varieties of coffee at the French research institute ‘Institut de Recherche pour le Développement’ and it is accordingly named after him. At present, Charrier coffee is the only known caffeine-free coffee plant from Central Africa.
We gather that development on growing this plant for commercial purpose is in progress and we can only hope to see this ‘caffeine’ free coffee available to us in the next few years! After all, ‘TIS’ (This is Africa)!
