WHY IS COFFEE GOOD YOU!
If you are a Caféphile, which means a coffee lover, this is for you. We all know Coffee as an energy booster, especially to kick-start your day! Additionally it offers other significant health benefits like improvement of mood, lowers risk of cancer, type 2 diabetes, and heart failure.
Coffee is good for you and pretty certainly you will find your favourite taste when experimenting with the kind of coffee Arabica or Robusta, varieties of coffee, the quantity, the way it’s prepared, the roast dark or light, and even the grind size coarse or fine. Regardless of how you control these variables, your morning coffee will still contain a number of useful nutrients, including riboflavin (vitamin B-2), niacin (vitamin B-3), magnesium, potassium, and various phenolic compounds, or antioxidants. Some experts suggest that these and other ingredients in coffee can benefit the human body in various ways.
We, Planting Costa Rica, believe that an information network between Producers, Roasters, Baristas and Consumers is necessary in order to achieve the best final product's quality and this is important because at the end of the day TOGETHER WE MAKE COFFEE. Thus, we encourage best practices throughout production. With the harvest at its top it is carefully seen that the coffee is processed properly to avoid damaging of the bean and conserving those rich flavours you enjoy.
Further down the chain, the ROASTING influences immensely the journey of Bean to Cup too. Green coffee beans themselves have little to no taste at all. The flavour or the aroma of coffee comes from the roasting process in which a large number of chemical reactions take place in those tiny beans resulting molecules that can be perceived by us. In actual fact, the average cup of coffee contains more than 1,000 molecules. To transfer those delicious aromas to the hot water in one’s cup, Baristas pour hot water at around 92°C over those roasted beans. To increase extraction, the beans are grin to increase their surface area, so more of the molecules will be exposed to the water. Luckily for coffee drinkers, the smaller and more water soluble molecules like acids will get extracted first and those tend to be the tastier with less bitter flavours.
In 2015, moderate coffee drinking was included as part of a healthy diet for the first time. These new Dietary Guidelines helped to change perception of coffee to be a possible carcinogen. The recommended 3 to 5 cups daily can contain up to 400 milligrams of caffeine and “The evidence is pretty consistent that coffee is associated with a lower risk of mortality,” said Erikka Loftfield, a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute who has studied the beverage. A cup or two of coffee per day while one is sick can help to encourage the immune system working as a wheelhouse for body while its battling illness. A study done by psychologists at the University of Bristol also found that the caffeine in coffee reduces the general sleepiness connected with colds. Controlled and balanced amount of coffee may keep your brain cells healthy as well as boost the performance of your nerves system. So, all in all, keep enjoying those cups in moderation as most doctors will most definitely recommend you to do so because “A coffee a day, keeps the doctor away”
