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Which coffees are highest in antioxidants?
As researchers learn more about antioxidants with health and disease, they increasingly find themselves drawn to their influence on overall health. With them becoming an ever larger realm of study, people are looking for new ways to obtain high levels for them to be beneficial. Since coffees are one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, it was natural for researchers to test coffee.
Surprisingly, they found that some coffees have extremely high levels. The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Pavia in Italy studied the antioxidants present in the green and dark roasted coffees Coffee Arabica and Coffee robusta. They found that all of the studied coffees showed a strong presence of them and also antiradical activity.
There was no difference found between the green and dark roasted coffee, indicating that the roasting process did not damage the natural presence in the coffee beans.
The School of Food Bio Sciences at The University of Reading, Whiteknights in Reading, United Kingdom looked at the effects of roasting coffee and if that negatively affects the presence of it in the bean.
They studied Colombian Arabica coffee that was roasted to light, medium, and dark roast. The researchers found that the maximum detioxification activity was found in the medium roasted coffee. This was in contrast to the previously held belief that dark roasts were higher in antioxidative content due to their darker color.
When the Nestle Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, studied
the activity in caffeinated beverages, they were particularly interested in seeing what kind of levels were present in coffees and other beverages when served at standard conditions. The amounts were found to be higher in coffee than in cocoa or tea.
They found that the addition of milk to the coffee, as taken by many people worldwide, did not alter the activity of the antioxidant. The researchers also looked into the link between the type of beans for the coffee and the degree of roasting to see if either had any influence on the activity of the ratio. They found that Robusta coffees that were served green had twice the level of antioxidants than Arabica coffees.
However, beyond this difference, the roasting of the coffee had little significant influence on the antioxidants.
Investigating brewed coffees to assess the benefit in levels was the key to a recent study done at the Department of Environmental Toxicology at the University of California in Davis, Calfornia. Even after sitting for fifteen and thirty days, the brewed coffees exhibited exceptionally high levels of antioxoidants.
About the Author
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Randy is owner of Profitable Home Businesses, How to Plan a Baby Shower and Las Vegas Weddings. Also works with his son on Ultimate Coffees Info
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