Benefits
Supports exercise performance and endurance output
In trained cyclists, a Caffinity dose supplying 200 mg of caffeine helped increase total work during a cycling time trial by roughly 4-5% versus placebo, consistent with caffeine's well-known role in supporting endurance and power output during sustained exercise.
Promotes energy and alertness
Provides naturally sourced caffeine from the coffee cherry to help support wakefulness, drive and mental alertness, the same mechanism behind coffee's familiar energizing effect, making it a plant-based option for pre-workout and daily energy formulas.
Helps reduce perceived effort during exercise
During steady-state cycling, participants taking the coffee-cherry extract reported lower ratings of perceived exertion, suggesting it may help hard efforts feel more manageable, a commonly reported effect of caffeine that can support training tolerance.
Delivers caffeine with coffee-fruit polyphenols
Unlike isolated synthetic caffeine, Caffinity pairs caffeine with coffee-fruit polyphenols such as chlorogenic acids, providing antioxidant plant compounds alongside the stimulant for formulators seeking a whole-food caffeine source.
Mechanism of action
Adenosine receptor antagonism
Caffeine competitively blocks central and peripheral adenosine A1/A2A receptors, reducing perceived fatigue and drowsiness and increasing central drive, arousal and alertness. This is the primary driver of its energizing and ergogenic effects.
Reduced perception of effort and enhanced motor output
By dampening adenosine signaling and modulating pain and effort perception, caffeine lowers ratings of perceived exertion and can increase voluntary work output at a given intensity, which manifested as improved time-trial performance in the cyclist study.
Coffee-fruit polyphenol contribution
Chlorogenic acids and related polyphenols from the coffee fruit have antioxidant activity and can influence glucose handling and vascular function in vitro and in some human data, though their independent contribution within Caffinity at the low ~15 mg dose studied is uncertain.
Clinical trials
Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial on the finished Caffinity coffee-cherry extract (Pavis et al., 2026, Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition; University of Exeter, UK)
12 trained cyclists (11 male, 1 female)
A single pre-exercise dose supplying 200 mg caffeine plus ~15 mg coffee-fruit polyphenols improved cycling time-trial work output by about 4.6% versus placebo (P<0.05) and lowered perceived exertion during steady-state cycling. It did NOT enhance post-exercise muscle glycogen resynthesis over 0-24 h beyond carbohydrate alone. Findings come from one small crossover study and should be interpreted cautiously.