Caffeine is a drug, and the lethal dose (the amount it takes to kill you) is 10 grams, more or less depending on body weight, how fast you ingest the drug, and other factors.

Don’t let it stress you. You’d have to down 75 cups of coffee in one day before the caffeine kills you. Or 125 cans of Red Bull, 170 cups of Haagen-Dazs Coffee Ice Cream, nearly 300 cans of Coke, or over 1,000 bars of Hershey’s Chocolate.

Unfortunately for me, it’ll take only 30 Starbucks Mocha Grandes to do me in.

Here’s a list of comparative caffeine content, in their most common servings:

0 – 12 oz 7UP
0 – 12 oz Diet Barq’s Root Beer
0 – 12 oz Fanta
0 – 12 oz Sprite and Sprite Zero
2 mg – 8 oz decaffeinated black tea
3 mg – 8 oz regular decaffeinated coffee
9 mg – 1.55 oz Hershey’s chocolate bar
10 mg – 12 oz Lipton Brisk Iced Tea (lemon flavoured)
14 mg – 8 oz Sobe Green Tea
17 mg – 12 oz Nestea (sweetened or unsweetened)
18 mg – 1.45 oz Hershey’s Special Dark chocolate bar
18 mg – 16 oz Snapple Iced Tea
23 mg – 12 oz Barq’s Root Beer
29 mg – 12 oz A&W Cream Soda
31 mg – 12 oz Diet Pepsi
35 mg – 12 oz Coca-Cola Classic
38 mg – 12 oz Regular Pepsi and Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi
40 mg – 8 oz green tea (the longer it is steeped, the higher the caffeine content)
41 mg – 12 oz Dr Pepper and Diet Dr Pepper
42 mg – 12 oz Sunkist Orange
47 mg – 12 oz Diet Coke
47 mg – 12 oz Tab
55 mg – 8 oz regular black tea (the longer it is steeped, the higher the caffeine content)
56 mg – 12 oz Mountain Dew
60 mg – 1 cup Haagen-Dazs Coffee Ice Cream
63 mg – 1 oz Espresso
65 mg – Bayer Select Maximum Strength Aspirin
75 mg – Starbucks Tazo Chai Tea Latte
80 mg – 8.5 oz Red Bull
95 mg – 8 oz instant coffee
130 mg – 2 tablets of Exedrin
135 mg – 8 oz (approximately 1 cup) regular brewed coffee
144 mg – 16 oz Full Throttle
150 mg – 16 oz Starbucks Caffe Latte
160 mg – 16 oz Monster Energy
174 mg – 16 oz SoBe No Fear
200 mg – 1 tablet NoDoz Maximum Strength
330 mg – 16 oz Starbucks Coffee Grande

O.C. DeeDee

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