This handbook is designed to provide general understanding to the health care practitioners and consumers of the purpose of caffeine as a food and beverage ingredient and as a flavoring agent, discuss caffeine content in foods and beverages and briefly describe the effects of caffeine on the body systems. Finally, it provides consumer education regarding the safety of caffeine.
Over 80% of the US population consumes caffeine-containing products (not including caffeine in medications) and the misinformation regarding the agent has persisted since the beginning of its discovery. Additionally, even many medical/pharmaceutical scientists and clinicians are no better informed about caffeine. When it comes to comes to caffeine as a food and beverage ingredient and as a flavoring agent, that ignorance is multiplied many times over. This publication attempts to dispel some of that misinformation with facts from well-conducted research studies. Dispel the caffeine myths today!
