How much caffeine in Nespresso capsules?
Nespresso doesn’t declare what is the caffeine content for each of their capsules. Not anymore, at least. In the past some informations could be gleaned from a few official Nespresso websites and that’s what we publish here.
Be aware that all these measurements are not exact as the temperature of water, time of brewing and water:coffee ratio can all influence the final caffeine content in your cup. Even wildly. So, assuming that each of these Nespresso capsules are brewed according to the suggested cup size, their relative caffeine content should be as such, from lower to higher:
- Vivalto Decaffeinato, Volluto Decaffeinato, Arpeggio Decaffeinato, Ristretto Decaffeinato: less than 2mg/cup
- Barista Chiaro: 49mg
- Freddo Intenso: 56mg
- Cosi: 60mg
- Bukeela ka Ethiopia: 60mg
- Dulsão do Brasil: 60mg
- Rosabaya de Colombia: 60mg
- Indriya from India: 60mg
- Cocoa Truffle: 62mg
- Caramel Crème Brûlée: 62mg
- Vanilla Éclair: 62mg
- Ispirazione Firenze Arpeggio: 63mg
- Arpeggio: 63mg
- Ispirazione Roma: 63mg
- Nordic Cloudberry: 64mg
- Nordic Almond Cake: 64mg
- Ispirazione Genova Livanto: 64mg
- Livanto: 64mg
- Ethiopia: 65mg
- Nicaragua: 65mg
- Vanilio: 68mg
- Caramelito: 68mg
- Ciocattino: 68mg
- Aged Sumatra: 68mg
- Capriccio: 70mg
- Freddo Delicato: 72mg
- Volluto: 72mg
- Colombia: 72mg
- Linizio: 72mg
- Freddo Delicato: 72mg
- Roma: 73mg
- Nordic Black: 73mg
- Barista Scuro: 73mg
- Ispirazione Ristretto Italiano: 75mg
- Ristretto: 75mg
- Dharkan: 75mg
- Vivalto: 77mg
- Ispirazione Venezia: 77mg
- Fortissio: 85mg
- Envivo: 99mg
- Barista Corto: 103mg
- India: 105mg
- Indonesia: 105mg
- Ispirazione Napoli: 109mg
- Ispirazione Palermo Kazaar: 113mg
- Kazaar: 120mg
16 Comments
Mr Gladden
Would like to know how much caffeine is in my Vertuso non caffeine pods. thank you
Nespresso Guide
Vertuo pods have more coffee than Original pods, so I’d guess the caffeine content in decaf pods would be anywhere between 3mg and 4mg per cup of coffee.
Ahmed
How many cup of nespresso is safe per a day ?
How many cup can make my day ?
Nespresso Guide
About 400mg of caffeine per day should be safe. “Should” here it’s important because it is not a hard limit but variable from person to person. Use the amount of caffeine in each capsule as above to calculate how many coffee you can have on a single day. Be aware that if you have a custom recipe or overextract a capsule (making a lungo for a pod that is recommended for an espresso) it will increase the amount of caffeine that ends up in your cup. By how much it’s debatable.
JM
This list of caffeine quantities I find very useful because it allows us to relativize and get a sense of the caffeine quantity between the different capsules. I think that this information should be more disseminated by Nespresso.
We managed to see this information on Nespresso / Taiwan and on this list. However when comparing them there are 3 capsules with values that are different, even though 2 of them are approximate: the Kazaar with 113mg, Roma with 63mg, but Venezia is very different, 77mg.
Nespresso Guide
Thanks for pointing this out. Are those capsules the new or the old version? Venezia was weaker, and apparently Roma was too.
Ahmed
Can I drink all capsules as a lungo ? If I took them as a lungo the caffeine will be more ?
Nespresso Guide
If you brew as a lungo, the extraction will be longer and more caffeine will be extracted as well.
Lily
Hi! May I please know how much caffeine is in the Vanilla Eclair capsule? 🙂
Nespresso Guide
Hi! Unfortunately, we don’t know it yet. Nespresso rarely, if at all, publishes data about the caffeine content in their pods. Considering that Vanilla Eclair is a full Arabica blend of light/medium roast, we can guess the content of caffeine to be similar to the middle line of Nespresso. Somewhere between 65-75mg per cup seems realistic.
BT
There is some information online regarding how much caffeine is in each Vertuo capsule - if it is listed this way is it fair to say that even if you extracted 2 espresso shots you would not be consuming more than the amount of caffeine listed as being in the capsule?
Nespresso Guide
No. If you pull 2 shots with a single capsule, the caffeine amount will be higher than what’s listed as that number refers to the caffeine content per each capsule when brewed as advised by Nespresso (espresso/ristretto for most and lungo for some). How much higher? Hard to say. Caffeine is very water-soluble and it is one of the first elements that gets extracted when brewing coffee. Its extraction tapers off with time, so if you use 1 capsule to pull 2 espresso shot, the first shot will contain the amount listed above while the second will add a small percentage (it depends on the type of coffee mostly) that will add to the previous shot’s.
If you use 2 capsules, you will get double the amount of caffeine. With a single one you’re mostly over-extracting the coffee and diluting it, adding very little flavor and an unknown amount of caffeine, plus lots of water. If what you’re looking for is more caffeine, more capsules has to be used to not compromise the taste of the coffee.
Katie Wharton
How much caffeine in the vertuo iced coffee pods?
Nespresso Guide
We don’t know for certain about the iced coffee pods for the Vertuoline but in general the Vertuo pods contain more caffeine than the Original line. Expect anywhere from 65mg and up to 165mg per capsule.
Jonny5
if you look at the nespresso website for tawain, you can see the caffeine content of ispirazione venezia and ispirazione napoli are not 120mg. venezia is 77mg per 25ml, and napoli is 109 per 25ml…so not sure how these got posted as 120?
Nespresso Guide
Because months ago when these capsules were released the caffeine content was 120mg for both (which, admittedly, seems weird for Ispirazione Venezia). Now I see they’ve changed. Probably an initial mistake on Nespresso’s part. Thanks for pointing out the change, we corrected the numbers in the article.