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The Swiss Water Process is a method of decaffeinating coffee beans developed by the Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company.
To decaffeinate the coffee bean by the Swiss Water method, a batch of green (unroasted) beans is soaked in hot water, releasing caffeine.
When all the caffeine and coffee solids are released into the water, the beans are discarded.
The water then passes through a carbon filter that traps caffeine but lets the coffee solids pass through.
The resulting solution, called "flavor-charged" water by the company, is then put in a similar filtration device, and new coffee beans are added.
Since the flavor-charged water cannot remove any of the coffee solids from the new beans, only the caffeine is released.
The process repeats, filtering out all the caffeine until the beans are 99.9% caffeine free.
These beans are removed and dried, and thus retain most if not all of their flavour and smell.