What are the differences in the taste of decaffeinated coffee available in Japanese supermarkets?

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For friends who want coffee and black tea but are worried about too much caffeine, consider buying low (non) caffeinated beverages. Mothers who are pregnant or breastfeeding can also use these decaffeinated drinks to still enjoy the good times of coffee and black tea. In recent years, low (non) caffeinated drinks are popular in Japan, and many well-known brands have also launched some good products. Let's take a look at these products right away.

You can buy it in Japanese supermarkets: Ogawa coffee

Let's take a look at what low-caffeinated drinks are readily available in Japanese supermarkets. Supermarkets sell many different brands of coffee, brewing convenience bags, brewing filter, coffee powder and coffee beans, which are dazzling. There are even a wide range of low-or decaffeinated products for organic coffee.

One of the brands that individuals like very much among these products is Ogawa Coffee. The coffee professional roasting production and selling shop founded in Kyoto in 1952, where local coffee staff injected passionate R & D evaluation, persisted in pursuing the original pure flavor of coffee. And hope to widely convey the quality of our own special roasted Ogawa coffee to everyone. Their organic coffee emphasizes the low-caffeinated mocha flavor. Ogawa coffee has long been a popular product in Japanese supermarkets, with mild taste and deep finish as its biggest features.

MMC and UCC's low-caffeine brewing filter products emphasize a 97% reduction in caffeine but still delicious, and a rich but mild flavor can also take into account the need to reduce the burden on the body. Another UNICAFE mocha-flavored low-caffeine product that is often found in supermarkets has two choices: brewing, filter and powder, and it is very convenient to prepare a few around.

In addition to decaffeinated coffee, other low-caffeinated drinks can be found in supermarkets, such as this AHMAD TEA LONDAON's Earl Grey Tea and fruit black tea, which emphasize total decaf. The rich and mellow Earl flavor and the fragrant natural fruit flavor do not dim the amorous feelings they should have because of the absence of coffee ingredients, but charm the taste buds of many consumers with a more refined and pure flavor. Even green tea and wheat tea can find low (non) caffeine products, so you might as well keep your eyes open when you visit the supermarkets in Japan.

MACHI CAFE of LAWSON

For the first time in Japanese supermarket history, decaffeinated freshly brewed coffee was unveiled by LAWSON's MACHI Cafe on May 9, 2017. There are ice, hot coffee and ice, hot latte four kinds, all 97% caffeine OFF, now walking on the road want to drink a cup of decaf coffee friends are blessed, come to LAWSON supermarket can drink freshly brewed coffee.

MUJI also has canned coffee.

MUJI, as we are all familiar with, also has some choices of low-caffeine products, including coffee powder and coffee beans, as well as brewing convenience bags and brewing and filtering. In addition, canned coffee drinks are still brown sugar flavor, and the flavor of black sugar shows the coffee in a more hierarchical manner. In addition, their jasmine tea, oolong tea, Indian milk tea and so on also have decaf products.

KALDI, a coffee shop from all over the world

KALDI, a grocery store with a wealth of imported goods from all over the world, offers a wide variety of low-caffeinated (non-caffeinated) beverages. There are more than 50 kinds of low-caffeinated beverages in online stores. Among them, KALDI's own strictly selected organic low-caffeinated coffee, using natural water without chemicals to remove more than 90% of the caffeine is delicious and reassuring. In addition, although the decaffeinated drink extracted from the root of dandelion is a kind of dandelion herbal tea, it has a mild coffee flavor, and many people will enjoy it as coffee, delicious and healthy. CELESTIAL also offers a variety of low-caffeinated black tea flavors, and their five flavor combinations are chrysanthemum tea, good night sleeping tea, lemon, mint and honey vanilla chrysanthemum.

Starbucks in Japan also sells it.

Even the well-known Starbucks has recently been promoting its own decaf coffee with hot and cold American coffee, latte, caramel macchiato, mocha, white mocha and cappuccino. 99% of the caffeine is removed by chemical-free extraction, but the taste remains the same. Interested friends should also give it a try.

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We also prepare a few low-caffeinated beverages at home. Friends who want to drink but are worried about caffeine can make more use of the above places to enjoy and hoard goods when traveling to Japan.

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