His "Perky Jerky" gets an extra-long soak in marinade infused with "guarana, " a tropical berry that contains caffeine.
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During breaks, Medeiros' mother, Beaters Diacopulos Rondon, combines powder from caffeine-rich guarana seeds with bottled water in a silver drinking cup.
During breaks, Medeiros' mother, Beatriz Diacopulos Rondon, combines powder from caffeine-rich guarana seeds with bottled water in a silver drinking cup.
Most of the stimulating supplements are derived from the herbal plant ma huang, and often also contain caffeine derived from guarana.
Guarana (aka Guaranine): Guarana is a bean from South America that contains roughly twice as much caffeine as coffee beans.
Brahma, though stronger, lacks a premium-brand soft drink, which its former arch-enemy has in the form of Guarana Antarctica, a type of fruit soda.
Senators Dick Durbin and Richard Blumenthal, Democrats of Illinois and Connecticut, also want to determine the consequences of combining caffeine and other common additives, like taurine and guarana.
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In Chicago, Alderman Edward Burke introduced legislation earlier this year that would ban the sale of energy drinks that contain more than 180 milligrams of caffeine per container and include taurine or guarana.
Investigators are looking into whether the addition of ingredients like guarana another source of caffeine violates laws that ban putting multiple sources of caffeine in one beverage without disclosing the overall amount, according to the person familiar with the investigation.
Ten years later Rapp, the ceo of Wet Planet Beverages in Rochester, New York, was in the news again for rolling out XTC, an energy drink for club-hoppers (it's loaded with the caffeine-rich guarana berry) that shares the name of a recreational drug.
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