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Espresso And Caffeine Experiment

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In this experiment 10.0514 g of espresso yielded 1.1178 % of crude caffeine. The average data of caffeine from black tea with the average weight of 9.5195 g had a 3.60% yield of caffeine. The average data of coffee with the average weight of 9.5306 g had an average yield of 1.4875% crude caffeine. The average data of espresso with the average weight of 9.4636 g had an average yield of 4.19% crude caffeine. The green tea with a weight of 9.6489 g had a yield of 2.4022% crude caffeine. According to Caffeine Content, the average caffeine content of regular coffee is 13.5 mg per gram of coffee, which means the crude caffeine recovery yield would be 1.35% (Coffee's Caffeine). The caffeine informer sates that green tea has about 10-20 mg of caffeine per 1 gram of leaves meaning that it has recovery yield of about 1-2% crude caffeine, and black tea has about 22-28mg of caffeine per 1 gram dried matter giving a recovery yield of about 2.2% -2.8% (Caffeine informer). …show more content…

My data seems to match up with the class data, there is very little difference in the percent yield in the other espresso tests, and the one that I had done, other than one that had a high yield of 15.23% of crude caffeine, which could have been an error in the experiment. The class average of the crude caffeine from espresso came out much higher than expected results, but this is probably because of the one result that had a very high recovery

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