Without coffee the world definitively go to hell 😱
Coffee is under threat: how scientists are fighting to save it from extinction
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01965-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01965-z
Without coffee the world definitively go to hell 😱
11 Comments
MxRemy@piefed.social · 12 pts · 48d
Would reducing global demand help? If you live in the U.S., yaupon is a caffeinated, drought resistant, and plentiful shrub that makes a very good beverage. You can grow it yourself easily, but a handful of companies sell it as tea already.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 48d
Caffeine is actually found in 60 different plants, it keeps independently evolving as pest repellent.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 1 pts · 48d
Isn’t it also fairly easy to chemically synthesise?
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 47d
… Jesse!
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 48d
interesting, i've never heard of yaupon before!
would be cool to try it but i'm not sure we have it here on this part of the globe (finland). maybe a hippie store might sell it
i've already switched to tea due to financial and health reasons after drinking coffee like a maniac. like a litre of black coffee per day. now i drink like 0-2 mugs of tea a day.
i'm not really a big fan of tea though so if there was an alternative beverage with a reasonable amount of caffeine and was friendly to the wallet i'd love to give it a shot
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 47d
https://myhealthopedia.com/yaupon-tea-benefits-side-effects-dosage-recipe/
Melobol@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 48d
How does it taste? I've read it is somewhat similar to yerba mate?
MxRemy@piefed.social · 3 pts · 48d
Yeah, not too far off!
I've always suspected it might taste even MORE like yerba mate if it was just processed similarly? Not sure how accurately we've preserved the knowledge of how it used to be prepared back when it was commonly consumed, but these days it's mostly just dried and roasted. Compare that to the very lengthy and complicated process mate gets put through, and the difference in flavor might be more about that than anything inherently different.
iByteABit@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 47d
omg no I need my drugs to survive capitalism
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 47d
Agree, I can't leave the automatic pilot and recovering the capacity to speak understandable without coffee in the morning.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 48d
Did they misspell humanity??