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The Wall Street Journal earlier this year sent samples of coffee from Starbucks, 7-Eleven, and Dunkin’ Donuts to Central Analytical Laboratories. The lab reported that a 16-ounce Starbucks house blend coffee contained 223 milligrams of caffeine, compared with 174 and 141 milligrams in comparable amounts of Dunkin’ Donuts and 7-Eleven coffee, respectively. According to the Journal, the average Starbucks coffee drink contains 320 milligrams of caffeine.

One of the big findings in the 1990s during the assault on Big Tobacco was how decades ago the companies knowingly and with purpose began secretly adding extra nicotine to their tobacco products, thereby increasing their addictive potential. And coincidentally eliminating their defence that they were merely making a “natural” product but were in fact manufacturing and distributing a synthetic drug product.

Why is Starbucks’ coffee so much stronger in caffeine than any other brewed coffee?

Earlier here.