Coffee filter paper is very useful! A piece of filter paper can prevent cholesterol from rising.

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Although drinking coffee has many benefits, it also has disadvantages to health, that is, it leads to an increase in blood lipids. The main reason is that coffee contains coffee oil, in which the diterpenes compounds caffeine (cafestol) and caffeinol (kahweol) can increase the concentration of triglycerides and cholesterol in the blood.

Martijn Katan, a professor at the Institute of Health Sciences at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, pointed out that drinking five cups of coffee brewed in a French filter pot a day, which contains about 10 milligrams of coffee oil, will raise cholesterol in the body's blood by 68% in four weeks.

Another study also pointed out that drinking 60 milligrams of coffee oil a day is enough to increase low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides in the body. Coffee expert Han Huaizong pointed out that coffee beans contain 1 percent of coffee oil. As long as you drink more than 6 grams of coffee, you will consume more than 60 milligrams of coffee oil, which is bad for your health.

What should I do?

Just add a piece of filter paper.

The Harvard Health Newsletter (Harvard Health Letter) issued by Harvard University in early 2012 suggested that filter paper can filter out most caffeine and caffeine, effectively reducing the disadvantages of rising blood lipids.

Han Huaizong points out that coffee brewed without filter paper, such as Nordic brewed coffee, French filter pot, and Turkish kettle, contains about 12 milligrams of caffeine and caffeine white alcohol per cup, while coffee brewed with filter paper contains only about 0.2 Mor 0.6 milligrams, a difference of 20 to 30 times. Although the brewing methods such as mocha pot and siphon pot are filtered, they are made of metal or coarse cotton cloth, and the effect of adsorbing coffee oil is still limited.

Therefore, he suggests that in order to protect cardiovascular health and reduce the intake of caffeine and caffeine, filter paper should be used to brew coffee. If coffee is usually cooked in Italian espresso machines, mocha pots, siphon pots, and French filter pots, it is best to go through one more procedure and filter them with filter paper before drinking.