Caffeine
Our food database records caffeine on five rows and all five carry exactly 80 mg per 100 grams, a hazelnut spread among them. We publish one of them: dark chocolate with 85 percent cocoa. An identical value across different products is a group value, not a measurement per product. Coffee and tea appear without a caffeine value.
What our data does and does not contain
Being honest about the limits of your source matters more than completing a page. Our database records caffeine on precisely five rows, and all five sit at exactly 80 mg per 100 grams: two chocolate bars at 70 and 85 percent cocoa, two rows of the same hazelnut spread and our own row for dark chocolate with 85 percent cocoa. That a chocolate spread carries the same figure as dark chocolate with 85 percent cocoa shows what this is: a group value smeared across a product group, not a measurement per product. We therefore carry that 80 mg with the caveat attached, and we do not fill the empty cells for coffee and tea with figures from elsewhere, because the table would then no longer have a single origin.
There is no reference intake, and rightly so
For caffeine our micronutrient table shows no daily value, noting that it is context-dependent. That is substantively correct: caffeine is not a nutrient you need a minimum of. The relevant question is never how to get enough, but what a sensible upper end looks like — and that differs sharply by person, by habituation and by time of day. A table cannot fill that number in for you.
Why no health claim appears here
Claims about alertness and concentration were proposed for caffeine in Europe. They were not authorised in Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, which means we may not and will not use them. This is one of the few substances on our site where the answer to which claim you may make is simply: none. We therefore describe only what the data holds, and nothing further.
What it actually concerns in a coaching programme
Caffeine reaches us not as a nutrition question but as a sleep question. Entrepreneurs and professionals often drink their last cup later than they think, and caffeine's half-life is long enough to still register in the evening. We therefore prefer to agree on a time than on an amount: a cut-off in the afternoon does more for the night in practice than counting cups.
Supplements, pre-workouts and where we stop
We sell nothing and assess no pre-workout formulas. What we will say: caffeine from powders and capsules is harder to gauge than caffeine from a cup of coffee, and combined products make the daily sum opaque. If you have cardiac complaints, use medication or are pregnant, this is emphatically a question for your GP and not one for your coach to answer.
How we compile this list
We sort every row in the DCRAFT food database on the measured value per 100 grams and take the top of that list. Rows recorded per piece, per slice or per portion do not count, because a value per piece cannot be compared with a value per 100 grams. Products listed under a brand name are left out: their composition changes outside our control, and a ranking resting on it ages without us noticing. Where several products carry precisely the same value, it comes from one shared row in our source data and we name one product from that group. We set this rule out here because a ranking without a visible selection rule is an opinion rather than a measurement.
Frequently asked questions
Which foods contain caffeine according to this database?
Our database records caffeine on five rows, all five at 80 mg per 100 grams; of those we publish dark chocolate with 85 percent cocoa. Coffee and tea appear in the dataset without a caffeine value.
How much caffeine per day is the norm?
Our source gives no reference intake and marks caffeine context-dependent. Caffeine is not a nutrient you need a minimum of.
May you say caffeine increases alertness?
No. Claims about alertness and concentration were not authorised for caffeine in Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, so we do not use that wording.
Does afternoon coffee affect your sleep?
Caffeine stays in the body long enough to register late in the day. In programmes we therefore tend to agree a cut-off time rather than a maximum number of cups.
Sources
- DCRAFT food database — KILLER COACH ENGINE V2.3 workbook (accessed 26 August 2026)
- Regulation (EU) No 432/2012 (accessed 26 August 2026)
Please note: This is general information about nutrition, not medical advice. If you have symptoms or suspect a deficiency, discuss it with your doctor. We do not sell supplements and have no commercial interest in any brand.
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Written by Dennis, founder of Dcraft Of Fitness.