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| legal = Unrestricted (food)

| mechanism = Caffeine is a non-selective adenosine A1/A2A receptor antagonist; also weak PDE inhibition. Beans contain theobromine (3,7-DMX) and theophylline (1,3-DMX) in smaller amounts.

| intro = Coffee is the seed of the ''Coffea'' genus (Rubiaceae — the same family as ''Cinchona''/quinine and DMT-bearing ''Psychotria viridis''). ''C. arabica'' (0.6–1.6% caffeine) is a tetraploid cultigen originating in the Ethiopian highlands; ''C. canephora'' (robusta, 1.2–3.2% caffeine) has more caffeine and less flavor. First popularized in Yemen by Sufi monks for sustaining night-long prayer.

| intro = Coffee is the seed of the ''Coffea'' genus (Rubiaceae, the same family as ''Cinchona''/quinine and DMT-bearing ''Psychotria viridis''). ''C. arabica'' (0.6–1.6% caffeine) is a tetraploid cultigen originating in the Ethiopian highlands; ''C. canephora'' (robusta, 1.2–3.2% caffeine) has more caffeine and less flavor. First popularized in Yemen by Sufi monks for sustaining night-long prayer.

| seealso = [[Tea]], [[Chocolate]], [[Caffeine]]

| references = <references/>

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| quote = ~~Coffee is the alkaloid of capitalism~~, ~~the wakefulness of the office and the assembly line, the small bitter~~ cup ~~that built the bourgeois soul~~. ~~She~~ is ~~also the muse of philosophers, of journalists, of the late-night letter — plural, the most domesticated~~ of the ~~wakeful Allies, and the one that has shaped, more than any other plant in the modern era, the rhythm of how we work and how we dream~~.

| quote = Our culture, in a cup. ... is coffee a good guy or a bad guy? Poison. One of the greats.

| volume = Dynamis

| ~~voice~~ = ~~curated paraphrase — replace with verbatim passage~~

| page = 44

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