When I drink it again, the paint/tightness flares up again anyone else experience this? I was thinking maybe it was just my taste buds have changed and I tried the medium roast. I phoned Kraft Canada and they were nice and will send me a refund check, in about 2 weeks time. I went through the meds I'm taking, the creams I useemailed my doctor. I just googled whether coffee brand could be a factor and sure enough I find this page with all these comments saying similar. After ruling out everything else it IS the coffee. I tried it Sunday afternoon and evening, for I work third shift. No wonder the coffee tastes bad. Otherwise, most comments and reviews are pretty positive or just talk about taste and not sicknesses. Just in the past year it has started tasting horrible! It's also economical. I have been a coffee drinker for years with no problems. Maxwell House Original is definitely causing this rash. Unfortunately just like the previously post said folgers, chock full of nuts and other store brands seem to have gone the same way. I drink Maxwell House International french vanilla cafe every morning with peanut butter toast for years. However, lately can't find it anywhere, not on store shelves, not online. I began buying Maxwell House Breakfast coffee in January. I am so happy to find this site. As of 10/21, all coffee in a can is garbage. I have always demonstrated Maxwell hours coffee BUT NO MORE.IT HAS BEEN AWFUL FOR SEVEEAL MKNTHS.IT HAS MADE ME AND MY HUSBAND BOTH SICK. Neither smell like coffee (opening the container) nor taste like coffee once brewed. Even when you first open it, it does not have the same great "fresh coffee" smell in the container. Needless, to say I didn't buy any coffee and won't either! Coffee beans are either Arabica or Robusta with Arabica being of higher quality and the preferred choice of coffee drinkers. We have two brand new containers of coffee we opened and two more in our store room. It just doesn't give me much pleasure to drink it. Smooth and full-bodied, our instant coffee has a signature flavor that's good to the last drop. Are you using a different blend. I'm glad to see it's not just me noticing the diffence in my coffee! Extreme cramping and diarrhea shortly after 1 cup of coffee. I have always drank foldgers, a few weeks ago I bought a new coffee maker because something tasted disgusting in my coffee. What is going on. LAST WEEK I BOUGHT ONE PACK & THE SMELL WHEN OPENED & BREWED IS SOMETHING BETWEEN VANILLA HAZELNUT & HORSESHIT. I am shocked there hasn't been a major recall/investigation/ or testing of contents by the FDA with results posted. This is crazyI actually stopped drinking coffee because I was getting extreme nausea after drinking Folger's After about a week is when it struck me that it was the coffee. On the verge of vomiting. Since switching brands I can not enjoy a cup of coffee again. What the hell. For the best possible flavor, try to get your beans just after they are roasted, and grind just what you need for each brew for the freshest possible flavor. MAXWELL HOUSE. For a truly great cup of coffee, youll want to steer clear of anything that is pre-ground, and look for beans that are single-origin, mountain grown, organic, and preferably from small, eco-friendly farms in places like Brazil, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, Kenya, Nicaragua, and Papua New Guinea. In addition, the USDA indicates that, on average, 1 cup (8 fluid ounces) of prepared coffee has 96 milligrams of caffeine. I bet their sales will start dropping really fast if they have'nt already. I don't drink much coffee but do like the occassional cappuccino. But after researching and finding that a lot of people have been feeling the same effects, I was relieved to know I wasn't going crazy! Same as many others here, after some trial and error I have found that Folgers makes me very nauseous. Had to quit maxwell house years ago it caused severe diarrheawent to folders and only one of them didnt cause diarrheanow Im getting severely dizzy and heart arrhythmiahas anyone else been experiencing this? bag. I guess I have to start drinking tea. I picked up some MH dark roast ground when my normal Starbucks roast was out of stock, thinking it's good enough to hold me over for a few days BIG mistake! I have called the company but the lady couldn't tell me anything, so I'm hunting for a good tasting coffee again.Thanks, Don FitchANSWER:Don, hiI assume you have been buying the ground coffee, and not Maxwell House's instant coffee.I checked out their site and see that they have changed their packaging recently. I usually buy 3 cans if maxwell house orig roast coffee at a time when i opened the first one i saw little white buglike things all through out the can i ipened the second and then third cans and theyre all like that it looks like crunchy dead bugs or something?? I can handle a burnt taste--this is more of an acidic sour taste. I woke up at 4:30 this morning feeling the best I have felt in a while. Even my cold brew (glass container) tastes different/bad. If I didn't know any better I'd guess they took green, unripened beans and roasted them. Anyone else notice this? I enjoy the rich, robust flavour of this coffee and it doesn't leave a bitter taste. Why do they always have to try to fix what isn't broke? Why could they not have just raised their price---i would have gladly paid more for what was so good. I stopped using the Maxwell House and started using another brand and the headaches stopped. First was that awful taste. Every morning I have 1 single cup of coffee. So long Maxwell, hate to leave but got to leave. I have been getting MASSIVE headaches, terrible nausea, almost a flu-like set of symptoms that make me feel run-down and really irritable. Did Nestle buy the brand? It is disgusting. Last week my husband and I bought a new can of McDanials special roast coffee in a tin from Save a lot grocery store in florida. But in the future you might want to give others thoughts, some consideration it just might save you. Been drinking Smooth Bold for years. The two companies in the Comment Title own MH and Folgers. I mentioned my reaction to Maxwell House to the manager of a local coffee house, and she said it probably wasn't the coffee itself but rather the pesticides used in growing the beans. I threw it out. I have loved MH for years. We ran out an my husband picked up Maxwell House instead. I began drinking maxwell house instant sugar free coffee about 9 days ago. Two hours after the first cup and I had diarrhea. well, same here. Yuck! Ran out of Folgers and someone brought in a bottle of Maxwell House . And every cup ive had, I get the WORST stomach pains I've ever had. I'm very familiar with coffee blending and roasting techniques. I'm at home recovering made a doctor's appointment to see what's going on? I have been drinking MH coffee mostly for over 50 years, and this past year it has really gotten bad, and just opened a new can today, brewed it and it tastes like piss! The bottom line is that both Maxwell and Folgers coffee has gained a lot of popularity over the years. this seems new, had loved Maxwell house for years , no more, no reply from call to customer service , surprise surprise. I got diarrhea, it was horrible for months and I never once made the connection. So I don't know what Maxwell house did but the days of I remember mama and Good to the last drop are long gone. Memories as a child---I loved smelling that just poured coffee at my Mom's bridge parties, would go & smell that wonder aroma that waifed from the cup before she added her cream and sugar. HOW WILL YOU MAKE $ IF YOU KILL YOUR CONSUMERS? Back to the MH: I don't get headaches, or hives and have a cast iron gut so I doubt it will disable me too bad. Store and it tastes pretty bad. I too, share the same thought I was thinking something was going wrong with my taste bud. Limited series centrada en una banda que alcanza el xito en Los ngeles en los aos 70 y se convierte en una de las ms legendarias del mundo. So I've switched to organic, and gone back to roasting my own from both organic and smaller plantations. My stomach cannot tolerate Folgers lite so I'm going to recommend Starbucks House Blend. I was having horrible diarrhea every morning for months and I thought it might be caused by coffee in general so I quit it and it worked. Both were terrible. I had surgery in November 2014. That being said, all coffee makers are from outside the US and it takes a long time lots of pots of water before they stop leaching plastic into your coffee. To the person that made the statement that it's lots of other Coffee to choose from you couldn't be more correct. It seems that every time I drink a cup of Maxwell house coffee I soon after have a terrible headache. We have since switched. Ive had this brand and roast before and the flavor was fine, but this had a taste of just bad coffee. Any suggestions for a replacement coffee? Can't give it away and wouldn't. I tried to mix it in with other coffee to tone it down and that didn't work either. We need to try to see if coffee from Vietnam is better with no Rust Fungus. Might have to change coffee if they don't change back. As they say good to the last drop. Thanks. He informed me that we had ran out of the new brand so he had used the Maxwell House again. All my adult life I've drank Maxwell House original, I'm 59. A real shame. HubPages is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. Even the off brands. Unwrap the number 10 can and you will find it is no longer the trusty metal can. It did take a while to justify buying the grinder, but at $12/pound, I figured it cost me ~$0.45 per 10oz cup of coffee vs $2 if I bought coffee outside. GROSS TASTING AND SMELLING BUT CHEAP. I could making several pots over and over again thinking it was the coffee pot.I am going to look for another brand. I will go back to the little instant Folgers stick packs. What a difference it made and even my husband likes it much better. Have headaches everyday. We stopped drinking MH for a week & the symptoms stopped. I'm told that only Arabica is exported from Colombia; I can't confirm that by the taste or aroma, only by the cost, which is not a good indicator of quality. Same stale result. They but MH at work. To decaffeinate robusta beans, you strip out the bitter, take out the caffeine and put the bitter back in. A little over a year ago, I started having what I refer to as "episodes". I am going to post a comment on Facebook about our findings also. Contacted them. Packets no longer have any print on them. They have made the coffee better by switching to Arabica. used robusta beans in the blend. Maxwell House Wake Up Roast Medium Roast Ground Coffee (30.65 oz Canister) Amazon.com Price $8.99 ($0.29 / Ounce) (as of 19:00 EST More Info Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. I thought I was crazy too. I suppose there was a certain amount of outrage since it tasted like cat poop. To be blunt it is boring and extremely disappointing. Found its not me! I didn't think anything of it having to do with the coffee so I continued drinking it. Similarly, Maxwell House master blend's caffeine content is approximately 100 to 160 milligrams in each 2 tablespoons of grounds, or 12 fluid ounces. We've had Maxwell House before, it's not our go to, but it's okay enough that we pick it up when its on sale. My issue is with NABOB coffee. Now I cannot find it. Now I see that it's not only me. SUPPORT LOCAL COFFEE ROASTERS in you area. I literally felt poisoned!my husband and I rationalized for days that my symptoms must be the result of a possible new menopause episode I was transitioning into. loss of taste. I remember the aroma of Folgers since I was a kid,instantly I loved it,and the smell it made when my grandfather brewed it.Even though I didn't drink I loved the smell.I tired Folgers in my teens and loved it,but for about 10 years I've been trying many other brands,not Folgers.So .I bought a classic roast Monday June 9 2012,and just brewed it today June 12 2012.The smell when I opened it was a dull burnt smell;nothing like that strong fresh awakening aroma it use to me many years ago.When I brewed it there was no strong awakening pleasant aroma either.I just called the Folgers company and complained thanks to this website.They are sending me a coupon,and I'll try silk roast,but if it is bad too,I'm done with Folgers for good.Maxwell also is horrible,no more good to the last drop.Do you guys remember the crystal effect Folgers use to have,it would actually sparkle in the light?That effect is completely gone,and that may be the main reason the coffee taste and smell is gonethey change the coffee somehow.Either they changed the beans,they change the method of roasting or the location and methods of growing.Now I must switch the New England,Don Cisco,and Organic brand coffee,there's so many brands these days. 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