Kind of get where your coming from NF with regard to the point, but I have high blood pressure and have been told to cut down on caffeine, but love coffee, so it's ideal for people like me. Until recently instant coffee was chemically decaffeinated, and filter could be either chemically or water decaffeinated, but now Nescafe decaff in red jar is done with water and tastes really good (for an instant coffee). Read that the chemically decaffed is really bad for you (for your liver I believe).