What kind of coffee is healthy?

While coffee is healthy, not all coffee is healthy. This is mostly the case in the food industry. Most of the ingredients used by humans in nature are healthy in themselves, but improper processing and storage methods also affect their health to a large extent, such as canned food, fried food and puffed food. The same goes for coffee.

What kind of coffee is healthy? How to drink coffee healthily? Here we compare coffee products commonly found on the market and explain them one by one to uncover the myth of coffee and health.

First of all, stay away from instant coffee and drink freshly roasted raw coffee. Instant coffee is harmful to the human body without any benefit. If you insist on finding an advantage for instant coffee, then the only advantage is "convenience"-more convenient than instant noodle coffee, a drink, but do not lose health for convenience ah!

The coffee we drink is extracted from the seeds of the coffee tree (professionally called "green beans") after roasting and grinding. Just like soybean, sesame and peanut baked goods, there are high requirements for freshness. Vegetable oil will taste like saliva after being stored for a long time, and it will also produce harmful substances to human body. Coffee rich in a variety of aromas and flavors requires higher freshness, because with the oxidation of the air, the aroma of coffee will gradually evaporate, and the fat components inside coffee beans will also oxidize and deteriorate. Generally, the shelf life of coffee beans circulating on the market is marked as 1 year or even 2 years, but in fact, the effective life of coffee is only 2 weeks. Although it is not absolutely deteriorated and cannot be drunk after two weeks, its high-quality aroma and taste cannot be guaranteed.

Why is instant coffee unhealthy compared to raw coffee?

First of all, the raw materials used to process instant coffee are inferior coffee beans. The coffee bean variety used in instant coffee is Robusta, which has high yield and strong resistance to pests and diseases, but the coffee bean flavor is thin and bitter, and the caffeine content is twice or more than that of Arabica. However, the high yield and low price are the primary reasons why instant coffee enterprises choose this variety as raw material.

Second, instant coffee is a powdered substance that is easily soluble in water after roasting, grinding, extracting and then drying coffee beans, so most of the aromatic components in coffee beans are lost during this processing process, and there is no aroma at all. Just imagine how fresh prawns taste after being cooked and frozen in the refrigerator for half a month!

Third, the raw materials themselves lack flavor, and most of the flavor is lost in the processing process, which makes instant coffee have to add a lot of essence and creamer to reconcile the "flavor" of coffee. This is the real reason instant coffee is a health killer. Therefore, the coffee aroma of instant coffee is chemically synthesized rather than real coffee aroma, which is similar to vinegar and saccharin to some extent. More than 100 kinds of foods, including instant coffee, contain acrylamide, a carcinogenic substance, which is not unrelated to chemical additives added to instant coffee, according to information provided by the Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

So if you want to drink coffee healthily, stay away from instant coffee, no matter how much they say,"It tastes great!" Or "drops of fragrance, not enough", do not be wrapped in saccharin creamer essence of black bitter water to deceive, like coffee, please drink raw bean coffee, then how to drink raw bean coffee healthily? Our next topic breaks down in detail.