Be careful of the chemicals in decaf coffee and tea.
Coffee can be decaffeinated using one of several methods. With direct process decaffeinating, solvents such as formaldehyde :shock: are used to absorb the caffeine from the coffee in order to remove it. Water decaffeinating uses water to remove the caffeine by soaking the beans prior to roasting. Since water method decaffeinating does not use any chemical additives, some people prefer coffee decaffeinated with this method although most of the flavor is removed using the water method. Many coffee suppliers use inferior grades of coffee for their decaf product, since they assume flavor will be lost anyway.