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Super coffee, congratulations. Could you please let me know as soon as possible which method was used to produce the coffee - decaffeinated using chemicals or the Swiss method? Please reply by e-mail to honegger.barbara@swissonline.ch. Thank you very much for your prompt reply.
Hello BarbHo, thank you for your question. The steps of the decaffeination process are: Steaming, decaffeinating and drying. All steps are carried out with the green coffee bean, i.e. the green coffee. First, the green coffee must be steamed or treated with water to make the bean surface and cell structure permeable to the crystalline caffeine stored in the cell walls. In a second step, the caffeine is removed by the extraction agent in accordance with European Directive 2009/32/EC. The extraction of caffeine is not a chemical but a physical process. The extraction agent selectively absorbs the caffeine from the green coffee bean. When the extraction agent is saturated, it is separated from the coffee and the absorbed caffeine is removed in a further step. The process is repeated until almost all the caffeine has been absorbed from the bean. Dichloromethane is used as the extraction agent in this product. The residues of the extraction agent are low, are monitored, comply with European directives and are harmless to health. Finally, the wet, caffeine-free coffee is dried to the normal moisture content of green coffee and can be roasted and processed as usual. Best regards, your M-Infoline team
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