Maybe you’re tired of coffee breath, or stained teeth, or running to the bathroom every 30 minutes. Whatever the reason you’re quitting it, here are 10 ways to get caffeine without drinking coffee.
Caffeinated Hot Sauce
If you consume hot sauce like you do water, putting it on everything from pizza to sliced fruit, be careful with this stuff because you’ll be buzzing! DoubleKick caffeinated hot sauce costs $9.99 per bottle and contains 12 milligrams of caffeine per teaspoon. Seven teaspoons gets you the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee.
Did you know that your skin can soak up caffeine? Shower Shock soap delivers 200 milligrams per shower, at $6.99 a bar. It’s perfect if you’re a morning bather, but you might avoid it during your relaxing nighttime bubble baths!
Need an excuse to eat more pancakes for breakfast? Here’s one: Wired Wyatt’s Maple Syrup. It’s gluten free and highly caffeinated. One tablespoon delivers 84 milligrams of caffeine, so take it easy on the sweet, sticky stuff.
Chocolate naturally contains caffeine. It’s low in milk chocolate with about 10 milligrams per candy bar but it can be high in dark chocolate. For example, Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate Bar contains 31 milligrams of caffeine. Snickers Charged is made with your caffeine buzz in mind, with 60 milligrams of the stuff per bar!
Good news: you might get the bonus of a little jolt when you’re just trying to ease a headache. Pain reliever manufacturers often add a little caffeine to their products—but stick to the recommended dose, since taking too many could cause a headache due to the caffeine overload.
Jolt gum comes from the same producers of Jolt Cola—the cola that had the maximum allowed dosage of caffeine in a soda before it was re-marketed as an energy drink. Two pieces of Jolt gum provides as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. If you’re not a gum chewer, three Penguin’s caffeinated mints provide the caffeine equivalent of a cup of coffee, as does just one Foosh mint.
If you snack on these while in the dugout of your softball game, you might notice an improvement in your performance. SumSeeds Energized Sunflower seeds are infused with caffeine, as well as other energy boosters like taurine and ginseng. One serving of the salty treat provides 140 milligrams of caffeine.
Sturm Foods introduced this caffeine-fiber powerhouse to the breakfast market. The packaging says that one serving contains as much caffeine as a cup of coffee.
Protein is energizing on its own but the manufacturers of Perky Jerky snack amped up the buzz factor by adding 45 milligrams of caffeine per serving. Don’t worry: it doesn’t taste like coffee.