Random Question 14: Caffeine

[disconscious]

As a follow up to RQ7: Caffeine in chocolate?, here is:

RQ14: Is decaffeinated coffee a diuretic? If so, then why?

I thought it was caffeine that was the diuretic.

Comments

[disconscious]

Do you think it is indeed caffeine that is the diuretic, and that what is left in decaffeinated coffee is sufficient to act as such?

[cispt2]

nono. they don't extract caffeine using dichloromethane anymore. they have a gene knockout plant that doesn't make ANY caffeine, so it shouldn't be a diuretic. :)