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Sep. 16th, 2014 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI'm awake.
No, seriously, I'm awake. This weekend I went to the Boston Local Foods Festival and one of the vendors was Steem Caffeinated Peanut Butter, so today I went to Brueggers and got a bagel with nothing on it to test out the jar I bought, along with getting some regular iced coffee. The peanut butter is supposed to have 170ish mg of caffeine per two tablespoons, which puts in the same league as eight ounces of brewed ordinary Starbucks coffee (according to Caffeine Insider- I've seen several different numbers for Starbucks caff levels). I can't vouch for this, as I don't have the means to chemically analyze the PB and as I said I did get some regular coffee alongside it, but the PB did have that slightly bitter taste I've noticed in the past when I've bought high-caffeine food items like Sky Rocket flavor syrup, which had 100 mg of caffeine per ounce.
The point of the PB being caffeinated is supposed to be a slow release of the stimulant in conjunction with protein and vitamins, so as to avoid quite as much of a surge-and-crash scenario as you'd get if you just chugged the appropriate amount of coffee. That, and if you're the kind of person who gets caffeine withdrawal headaches, it's easier to bring a jar of peanut butter or to make some peanut butter sandwiches on a long trip than it is to bring a thermos of coffee, and if you're going camping or hiking or something, you won't have to lug a percolator or buy caffeinated energy jellybeans from the sporting goods store. Plus, well... this is the Boston area, and the area is riddled with colleges, and the colleges are heavy on the technogeek side. These are people who will caffeinate anything.
Anyway, it's decent peanut butter even if it's prominently labeled 'DO NOT GIVE TO ANIMALS, THIS IS PEOPLE FOOD ONLY', so I'm gonna keep it at work for use on breakfast foods.
No, seriously, I'm awake. This weekend I went to the Boston Local Foods Festival and one of the vendors was Steem Caffeinated Peanut Butter, so today I went to Brueggers and got a bagel with nothing on it to test out the jar I bought, along with getting some regular iced coffee. The peanut butter is supposed to have 170ish mg of caffeine per two tablespoons, which puts in the same league as eight ounces of brewed ordinary Starbucks coffee (according to Caffeine Insider- I've seen several different numbers for Starbucks caff levels). I can't vouch for this, as I don't have the means to chemically analyze the PB and as I said I did get some regular coffee alongside it, but the PB did have that slightly bitter taste I've noticed in the past when I've bought high-caffeine food items like Sky Rocket flavor syrup, which had 100 mg of caffeine per ounce.
The point of the PB being caffeinated is supposed to be a slow release of the stimulant in conjunction with protein and vitamins, so as to avoid quite as much of a surge-and-crash scenario as you'd get if you just chugged the appropriate amount of coffee. That, and if you're the kind of person who gets caffeine withdrawal headaches, it's easier to bring a jar of peanut butter or to make some peanut butter sandwiches on a long trip than it is to bring a thermos of coffee, and if you're going camping or hiking or something, you won't have to lug a percolator or buy caffeinated energy jellybeans from the sporting goods store. Plus, well... this is the Boston area, and the area is riddled with colleges, and the colleges are heavy on the technogeek side. These are people who will caffeinate anything.
Anyway, it's decent peanut butter even if it's prominently labeled 'DO NOT GIVE TO ANIMALS, THIS IS PEOPLE FOOD ONLY', so I'm gonna keep it at work for use on breakfast foods.
