Caffeine Anhydrous Review
One question I’ve received frequently over the past few weeks:
Cal, I’m noticing that caffeine anhydrous is appearing in a lot of diet pills, what’s the difference between caffeine and caffeine anhydrous?
As you can read in our in-depth review of caffeine, we rate caffeine as an effective diet pill ingredient. While some diet pill companies will claim that their caffeine is “similar to ephedra”, they’re wrong. It’s not. Caffeine is effective though in increasing your energy level, metabolic rate, and endurance.
Caffeine anhydrous (check out this image of caffeine anhydrous if you’re interested) is just a new way of saying basically the same thing: This pill contains caffeine.
Diet pill companies love to latch on to new words that describe old things. In this case, the word anhydrous simply means dry, free of water, the dehydrated form of a chemical.
Does dehydrated caffeine prove to be more effective than “normal” caffeine? There’s no research to support that assertion.
Our Take on Caffeine Anhydrous
In short, we’re glad to see caffeine in a diet pill, because that’s one ingredient that has proven itself over and over again as effective. What we don’t like seeing is diet pill companies touting their dehydrated (anhydrous) caffeine as some sort of “special” caffeine that will deliver superior results. We especially don’t like seeing caffeine anhydrous compared to ephedra.