Substance reference

Caffeine

Other compounds EFSANIH ODS / IOM-DRI (NASEM) 10 products in Stacky

What the European Food Safety Authority and the United States National Institutes of Health have published about caffeine intake, and what the catalogue records. Reference figures and citations only.

Stacky is an organisational tool, not a medical device. It does not provide medical advice, and nothing on this page says what caffeine does. Talk to a doctor or pharmacist before starting, stopping or changing what you take.

Published intake references

Each figure is one authority’s published value, with the kind of figure and the people it applies to as that authority stated them. Where the EU and the US differ, both are shown and neither is averaged or converted. Only a tolerable upper intake level sets a ceiling. A recommended or adequate intake is context, not a limit.

European Union — EFSA

No upper limit established by this authority None established EFSA has established no Dietary Reference Value (PRI/AI) and no Tolerable Upper Intake Level for this substance. It is not a nutrient in EFSA's DRV or UL programme, which covers vitamins, essential minerals and macronutrients. Caffeine is not a nutrient…Our record of this statement is cut short; the authority’s document has it in full. EFSA →

United States — NIH ODS / IOM

No upper limit established by this authority None established The IOM/NASEM Dietary Reference Intakes process has established no RDA, AI or Tolerable Upper Intake Level for this substance. It is not covered by the DRI framework, which addresses vitamins, elements and macronutrients. Caffeine has no DRI. (The US FDA…Our record of this statement is cut short; the authority’s document has it in full. NIH ODS / IOM-DRI (NASEM) →

“None established” means that authority examined caffeine and set no figure. A substance for which Stacky holds no published reference has no row here, and no page.

How it is recorded

What the app records so it can schedule a dose. None of it is advice.

No form, time of day or food note is recorded for caffeine yet.

Recorded interactions

What a named source says about caffeine taken alongside another substance: absorption and nutrient status only. Each row links to its source. A row without one is not published, and neither is one whose source description names a disease or clinical condition. None of these says whether a combination is good or bad.

RelationshipWhat the source saysSource
Reduces absorption or status of Calcium Net absorption of dietary calcium is reduced to a small extent by caffeine intake.
Scope the source gave: described as a small effect on net absorption.
NIH ODS
Checked 6 Aug 2026

Indexed studies

A study reaches this page only if its own title names Caffeine or one of its recorded alternative names, and does not name a disease or clinical condition. The second rule removes papers that are about caffeine; a title naming a condition beside a substance reads as a claim, and this page makes none. Titles are the studies’ own words, newest first. A study being listed is not a statement that caffeine does what it set out to test. How this list is built →

TitleJournalYearReference
The Effect of Creatine Nitrate and Caffeine Individually or Combined on Exercise Performance and Cognitive Function: A Randomized, Crossover, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. Nutrients 2024 PubMed 38542677
Effects of Caffeine Intake on Endurance Running Performance and Time to Exhaustion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients 2022 PubMed 36615805
International society of sports nutrition position stand: caffeine and exercise performance. J Int Soc Sports Nutr 2021 PubMed 33388079

Showing 3 of the 5 papers indexed against caffeine in Stacky.

About this page

Stacky is a supplement tracking app. It renders what you take and what published sources say about it; it does not tell you what to take. Every figure on this page names the authority that published it and links to that authority’s own page.

Not on this page: a dose of our own, a grade, a verdict on whether caffeine works, or any statement that it treats, prevents or improves a condition. How these pages are built →

Figures are read from the authorities’ published tables and can go out of date when those tables are revised. If one here is wrong, tell us at support@stacky-app.com and we will check it against the source.