Abstract

Fresh green coffee beans contain a rather high percentage of phosphatides in the light petroleum extract as well as in the subsequent alcohol-benzene extract. Nearly all these phosphatides are destroyed by roasting. By using alcohol-benzene as a solvent the major portion—if not all—of caffeine is extracted also and can easily be isolated in a pure state.

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