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Doughnuts With a Buzz
Some brilliant mad scientists have now created
caffeinated donuts and bagels. The doughnuts pack as much caffeine as two cups of coffee, so if you add coffee to your doughnut snack, you'll be totally buzzed throughout your morning.
Each pastry, or bagel if you were to prefer this caffeine-delivery system, would contain a jolt worth one to two cups of coffee, thanks to years of experiments and brainstorms performed by molecular biologist Robert Bohannon.
Make way for the Buzz Donut and the Buzzed Bagel.
The challenge, Bohannon said, was overcoming the bitter taste of coffee beans ground up in the a.m. pastry: No amount of creme filling could cut it.
"I eventually worked with some flavoring experts and designed a method to mask the bitterness, which led to successfully adding the caffeine equivalent of one to two cups of coffee to the food item," said Bohannon, president of the biotechnology company Onasco, Inc. in North Carolina.
"Some people get their caffeine buzz from soda, chocolate and other sources besides coffee," Bohannon said. "The Buzz Donut and the Buzzed Bagel lets them get the caffeine buzz by simply eating a delicious pastry item."
The delicious caffeinated doughnut will still likely come chock full of fats, particularly trans fats, and sugars. Trans fats, which behave like saturated fats, are found in many prepared foods, particularly baked goods. As they offer no nutrition and can increase "bad" LDL cholesterol, trans fatty acids are the latest targets for nutritional scrutiny.
Extra caffeine, fat and calories -- what's not to love?
Posted on January 29, 2007
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