How is caffeine added to energy drinks?

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Caffeine is a chemical that occurs naturally in drinks like tea and coffee. It can make you feel wide awake and energetic, so it’s also often added to other things like sodas and energy drinks. But how do energy drink manufacturers put caffeine into their products? We asked food scientist Adam Johnson to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. Moment of um. Um, comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Johnny Jitterbug and I'm a fiend for caffeine.
0:16.2	Um.
0:19.4	Hey, hi there friends, it's so good to see you isn't it a beautiful morning it's a really
0:25.1	beautiful morning the sun is shining the birds are singing the trees are doing tree
0:29.4	stuff and I'm working on the recipe for my latest amazing energy beverage,
0:33.6	Kapow!
0:34.6	It'll come in three flavors.
0:38.4	Pomegranate Power Punch,
0:40.0	Go-Go-Go-Go-Grape,
0:41.2	and Lightning Laser Lemon Lime!
0:45.5	When people drink these fabulous fizzy flavors,
0:48.2	I want them to feel like they could back-flip
0:50.0	over their neighbor's minivan,
0:52.1	like they just smooched in electric eel, like they want to
0:55.1	high-five the moon, I've got all the flavors mixed. But how do I add a little extra
1:00.1	zip and zas? Most energy drinks have caffeine,
1:05.0	a special chemical that can make you feel super energetic.
1:08.0	How do I add that to my formula?
1:12.0	Carson was just asking about this too.
1:15.0	Hi my name's Carson and I'm from Houston Texas and I was wondering how they put caffeine and energy drinks. Caffeine can be added in a number of ways to energy drinks.
1:27.0	Hi, I'm Adam Johnson, I'm a product developer and a food scientist.
1:34.4	Synthetic pure caffeine, which is made in a factory,
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