Chocolate Fruits and Leaves

Apple cake rose Chocolate fruits and leaves Homemade fresh berry jelly Rose semifreddo Sweet Florentines... 

Apple Cake Rose Chocolate Fruits and Leaves Homemade Fresh Berry Jelly Rose Semifreddo Sweet Florentines... 

Caffeine is a naturally occurring substance found in the leaves, seeds, or fruits of more than 60 plants. These include coffee and cocoa beans, kola nuts, tea leaves, guarana (Paulinia cupana) and Paraguay tea. Thus it is present naturally in many beverages, such as coffee, tea, and cola drinks, or is added in small amounts (up to 200 ppm) in some soft drinks and in foods such as chocolate. Caffeine is obtained by solvent or supercritical fluid extraction from green coffee beans, mainly during the preparation of decaffeinated coffee. 

Purine alkaloids are methyl derivatives of xanthine. The most common purine alkaloid is 1,3,5-trimethykanthine, 1,3,7-trimethyl-lH-purine-2,6(3H,7H)-dione, known trivially as caffeine (10-38). It is accompanied by dimethykanthines theobromine, theophylline and paraxanthine and also by methykanthine heteroxanthine and methyluric acids, which are minority alkaloids, with the exception of cocoa and chocolate. Caffeine is found in the seeds, leaves and fruits of more than 60 species of plants. It is assumed that the purpose of accumulation of purine alkaloids by plants is the protection... 

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