Did you drink the "king of medicine" coffee right? How to drink coffee powder is the healthiest?

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The ratio of hand-brewed coffee powder to water-how to drink coffee powder

Coffee, if said to be the soul mate of modern people, is not too much.

A cup of coffee per person has become a morning scene; at noon, colleagues meet to buy a cup of coffee and sip it to fight for the afternoon; occasionally they have to pick a lamp to work overtime, and coffee has become a warm companion at night.

In addition to the pungent aroma and strong taste, coffee contains chemicals such as caffeine, chlorogenic acid and nicotinic acid, which can also help prevent cancer, heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and so on. Coffee has been a cure since ancient times.

As a result, Okashi Taro, an honorary professor at Tokyo Pharmaceutical University, praised coffee as the "king of all medicines."

The 76-year-old Taro Okashi is an expert in pharmaceutical chemistry and clinical pharmacology. He was infatuated with coffee research before he retired. Because he found that many medical papers have shown that coffee can prevent diseases, which is helpful to modern people who are prone to illness and sickness.

But drinking coffee can be very knowledgeable.

From coffee beans, baking method, brewing temperature and technology, to drinking time, etc., will affect the coffee and healthy dancing effect. However, he also cautioned that drinking too much coffee can be counterproductive, and even groups such as pregnant women have to limit the amount of coffee used.

Okashi Taro gathered these painstaking efforts to study coffee into the Coffee Health Lab: drinking coffee every day keeps you away from cancer and dementia. How on earth can you drink coffee to be healthy? The following excerpts are the main points of this book:

Coffee was originally a medicine. Although it is not a medical diagnostic medicine, it has been regarded as an effective prescription since ancient times.

The epidemiological study of coffee has been going on for about 50 years. The ingredients in coffee can prevent metabolic abnormalities caused by overeating or stress, as well as dysfunction and inflammation caused by organ oxidation.

Deep and shallow baked "mixed beans" is the healthiest to drink together.

The four ingredients that have preventive effects in coffee beans are caffeine, chlorogenic acid, nicotinic acid (vitamin B3), which is transformed from trigonelline (vitamin B3), and Nmi-methyl-pyrrolidone (NMP).

The two most commonly used coffee beans in Japan are Arabica and Robusta. The ingredients of these two kinds of coffee beans are very different-Arabica beans have more sucrose and trigonelline, while Robusta has more caffeine and chlorogenic acid.

In order to maintain good health, what kind of coffee should I drink?

Take "coffee with caffeine and a mixture of light-roasted and deep-roasted beans", or "mixed beans", as the standard. If the shallow baked and deep baked beans are mixed and cooked in a ratio of one to one, all four active ingredients can be fully absorbed.

Usually coffee is roasted raw beans before drinking, but chlorogenic acid is not heat-resistant, so in order to maximize the effect of chlorogenic acid, shallow roasting must be used. It has many functions, such as anti-oxidation, delaying sugar absorption to avoid the rapid rise of blood sugar after meals, and stimulating the parasympathetic nerve to lower blood pressure.

When deep-roasted coffee is roasted by heating, fenugreek base is converted into niacin and NMP. Nicotinic acid is a drug for the treatment of hyperlipidemia, but also can protect blood vessels, reduce platelet activity, so that blood vessels are not easy to block.

NMP can stimulate the parasympathetic nerve to stabilize mood, promote colorectal peristalsis and lower blood pressure. Because of its strong antioxidant effect, it also has the effect of relieving toxins to carcinogens.

If you don't bake your own beans, you can go to the store that sells roasted coffee beans and decide according to the color of the coffee beans. In other words, buy a mixture of light and dark brown beans.

What is the best temperature to make coffee?

Although some people think that hot coffee tastes good, coffee experts say, "not too hot coffee is delicious." Everyone has different preferences, but there is a rule for the hot water temperature when brewing coffee-"brewing coffee in boiling hot water will be too bitter."

In the bitter taste, it does not contain ingredients that can prevent disease, but only harmful substances. Therefore, when brewing coffee with filter paper, it is better to cool the boiling water slightly and then brew it. It can be adjusted to 90 degrees or 80 degrees according to personal preference.

Make good use of filter paper to isolate harmful ingredients

It seems that coffee has many advantages, but in fact, coffee beans also contain ingredients that are harmful to your health.

For example, the diterpenoids (Diterpene) in coffee beans, specifically Kahweol and Cafestol, can lead to an increase in cholesterol and neutral fat in the blood.

The Nordic countries used to drink coffee by boiling coffee powder and water in a pot, but now it has been brewed with filter paper. As long as the filter paper is used to brew, the oil in the diterpenes will dissolve and stay on the filter paper and will not flow into the coffee. In this way, the content of diterpenes can be reduced by 1% to 5% ○.

How can drinking coffee help you lose weight?

If you want to use coffee to help you lose weight, timing is the key. You can drink light to moderately roasted coffee before meals to promote weight loss.

First of all, the chlorogenic acid in coffee will reduce the rate of sugar absorption; moreover, if you drink coffee before a meal, it can produce a certain sense of satiety and will not eat too much. To achieve weight loss, it may be possible to ask the restaurant to serve coffee before eating.

Black coffee, of course.

How to drink it properly? Coffee taboo

Although it is said to develop a good habit of drinking coffee, it is not unrestrained to drink coffee. Because it contains caffeine, it is usually enough to drink one to three cups a day.

Pregnant women should pay more attention to caffeine intake, too much caffeine may increase the risk of premature delivery and low birth weight.

Here are the people who must control their caffeine intake:

I. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding

2. Patients with osteoporosis

III. Persons suffering from heart-related diseases

People who have had panic attacks

People who drink coffee will worsen their symptoms, such as headaches, etc.

People who take the antidepressant fluvoxamine (Fluvoxamine)

There are unknown reasons but are not suitable for coffee drinkers

In addition, doctors advise that once osteoporosis is confirmed, drink less coffee.

This is because caffeine promotes the release of calcium from calcium-containing vesicles in cells. For healthy people, this effect of caffeine accelerates cell activation, but for people with osteoporosis, precious calcium is wasted.

People with osteoporosis should avoid drinking coffee containing caffeine. People who do not have this kind of trouble, if they are worried, can also add calcium-rich milk to their coffee.

Even if it is only a small cup of coffee, because of the different brewing methods, it can change into a variety of delicacies. As you become more and more fond of coffee, you will pay more and more attention to the contents of your diet and will certainly become healthier and healthier.

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