Coffee in your workplace break room may contain high levels of substances that increase the levels of “bad” cholesterol in your blood, but there are easy ways to reduce them.
diterpenes It is a compound created by plants that have various effects on the human body. Those two – Cafe Stoll and Kahweol – It’s been Linked to level increase Low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. High levels of these compounds have been found in coffee, How to extract.
Swedish researchers measured the levels of diterpenes in coffees made by a variety of common coffee machines and brewing techniques. They discovered that boiling a large pot of coffee is the worst criminal, but filtering it can easily offset those levels.
Coffee machines commonly found in workplaces around the world have also produced cups of jaws with relatively high diterpene levels.
“We’ve studied 14 coffee machines and found that the levels of these substances are much higher in coffee from these machines than in regular drip filter coffee makers.” David Igman saysa clinical nutritionist at Uppsala University.
“From this we speculate that the filtering process is important because it is present in coffee that produces these cholesterol.”
The team calculated the benefits of people who drink three cups of coffee a day, five days a week. Replacing the machine’s coffee for paper-filtered Java reduces LDL cholesterol by 13% over five years and 36% over 40 years.
Researchers collected samples from 11 machines that brew coffee from grinds that mix with hot water and pass through metal filters, and three more mixed liquid coffee concentrates with hot water without filtration.
For comparison, the team also brewed the coffee itself using a variety of methods, such as Drip-Brew, Percolator, French Press, and Boiled Coffee. Samples from each method and machine were then frozen for storage and transport before analysing for diterpene concentrations. Additionally, the team collected four espresso samples from three cafeterias and workplaces.
The team discovered that manual methods of brewing coffee generally have lower levels of diterpene than gripping a cup from the machine. Whether it’s a brewing machine, a liquid model machine, or a traditional espresso maker.
At first glance, espresso is the worst way to make coffee, with a median Cafe Stall level of about 1,060 mg/L. However, there were only four samples analyzed, and the level was significantly changed from 35.6 to an astounding 2,446.7 mg/L. So it is difficult to draw out many meanings from it.
Median Cafe Stall concentrations for coffee from liquid and brewer models were 174 mg/L, 135 mg/L of Caweol. The French press produced moderate diterpene levels of coffee, with less than 90 mg/L in Cafestoll and less than 70 mg/L in Kahaweol, and percolators were similar readings.
The best option appears to be paper filtered drip brews, with Cafeall recording a median of just 11.5 mg/L and 8.2 mg/L.
The exception was boiling coffee, a normally unfiltered method common in countries such as Sweden. Correcting caffeine in this way gave a significant average concentration of Cafestool below 940 mg/l and cahaweol at 680 mg/l.
Thankfully, these levels can be easily reduced. When researchers filtered the boiled coffee through the dough, the concentration dropped to just 28 mg/L for Cafestoll and 21 mg/L for Kahaweol. They used socks for some reason, but all the fabric and paper filters need to do the trick.
The team also acknowledges that the study has major limitations, such as filter pore size, water pressure, temperature, and small sample sizes and variables that have not been calculated, such as methods for roasting beans and ground.
Findings join growing and often conflicting research into the health effects of coffee. For example, other studies found that drinking three or more cups of coffee per day could reduce your risk of developing cardiac metabolic disease by 40%.
Regular coffee consumption is also associated with a lower risk of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and skin, mouth and bowel cancer. It can even offset the negative effects of long-term sitting and extend your life for years. But it all can depend on the number of cups per day, what time you drink, and how you brew it now.
“Most of the coffee samples included levels of LDL cholesterol in people who drank coffee and levels that could have a real impact on future risks of cardiovascular disease.” Igman says. “For people who drink a lot of coffee every day, it’s clear that a drip filter coffee or other well-filtered coffee is desirable.”
This study was published in the journal Nutrition, metabolism, cardiovascular disease.
