The extraction of caffeine from coffee is commercially important as the effects of caffeine are

considered undesirable by some people. Decaffeination used to be carried out by treating the
green coffee beans with a small amount of hot water and then exposing them to a solvent
(trichloroethylene) until 97% of the caffeine was removed.

Other studies suggest that caffeine (or at least coffee) may (and underscore” may”) reduce
the likelihood of type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, dementia, certain cancers (particularly
liver cancer),heart rhythm problems, and strokes.

These conclusions are almost all derived from retrospective, epidemiological studies, some
large, some small. Such studies can be influenced by unrecognized confounding variables,
but overall the impression is positive.