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Hello, welcome from the newscast coffee bar.

A little sight hustle I've got going.

No, we've set this up because there is an amazing story today from which the consumer group,

who have sampled how much caffeine is in various high street coffee drinks and the results

are quite startling but not as amazing as the fact we've got a health correspondent called

katherine de costa hello hi i bet you've heard all the jokes today katherine i'm sorry to be adding to them

right so which you put out this table which you and I both have in front of us.

Nothing like going out for a virtual coffee and bringing a spreadsheet.

So basically, they looked at how much caffeine is in an espresso by volume

and how much caffeine is in a cappuccino by volume from Caffineero, Costas, Greggs, Pratt and Starbucks.

How would you sum up what which found?

Well, huge variation. So if you take the espresso to start with, Pratt had the highest amount of caffeine at 180 milligrams,

and down at the bottom was Starbucks with 33 milligrams. that's less than half a cup of tea.

And then if you look at cappuccino, so a regular-sized cappuccino, the highest

amount of caffeine was at Costa that had five times more than if you bought it in Starbucks.

And interestingly, so at Costa, it was 325 milligrams in a cup.

And that's kind of over the average recommended amount of 300 milligrams per person per day.

So it makes a huge difference depending on where you go.

And it matters because some people like me are quite sensitive to caffeine.

So I tend to have one cup of coffee first thing in the morning and I make sure that it's a really good coffee that tastes great. Because too much, really, you know, it affects my sleep. It makes me feel quite agitated. Some people might feel quite anxious or have heart palpitations. It can even give you a bit of an upset tummy. And it particularly

is important for pregnant women, actually, because they're recommended to have no more than 200

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