SwissWater
SwissWater refers to a specific process for decaffeinating coffee beans. It is a patented, chemical-free method developed by the Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company. The process begins by soaking green coffee beans in hot water, which extracts the caffeine along with other soluble solids, including flavor compounds. This mixture then passes through a series of activated carbon filters that are specifically designed to capture only the caffeine molecules.
The filtered water, now free of caffeine but still containing the soluble flavor compounds, is known as
The company emphasizes that their method uses only water and the coffee bean's own soluble solids to