Coffee Beans

About Coffee Beans

Coffee Beans are actually seeds from the coffee plant, but are referred to as “beans” because they look like beans.  75 – 80% of the coffee produced world wide is Arabica coffee and 20% is Robusta coffee.  Robusta coffee is much more highly caffeinated.

Nutrition Benefits of Coffee

For every 8 articles you find that say how you should cut coffee, you’ll find 10 articles that say how you should drink it.  Clearly, certain people should not consume coffee – like pregnant women, people with high blood pressure, high anxiety individuals, etc.  There has been a lot of research on coffee and coffee contains a lot of various antioxidants.  Some research has linked benefits of coffee to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, reduced risk of Dimentia, Alzheimers, and Parkinson’s, cancer fighter, liver benefits, and others.

Smoothie Tips

We call our superfood smoothie recipes that use coffee as an ingredient, “CappuGreenos”.

We recommend you buy organic coffee.  Coffee is one of those ingredients that gets heavily sprayed with pesticides.

Our recipes call for 1 Tbsp of coffee beans in a 24oz superfood smoothie.  You can add or reduce according to desired flavor of caffeine amounts.  You can also use decaf.

You can use ground coffee, but we then suggest starting with just 1 tsp of ground coffee, tasting, and then adding to your liking.

The blender will not liquefy the beans – it will still have some coffee bits.  The cool thing with this is that while your stomach digests these bits of coffee, it creates a time-release effect on the caffeine, giving you much more balanced energy levels.

Nutrition Facts

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Coffee Beans scores well for 17 health goals

This ingredient was scored for various health goals Learn more.

The Research

Erectile Dysfunction: Score 96

Summary:

Coffee is inversely associated with all cause cardiovascular disease mortality. Drinking 4 cups or more of coffee per day has a preventative effect on stroke. Coffee may reduce the risk of all cause and cardiac mortality. Coffee reduced the risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease.

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Circulatory System (Cardiovascular): Score 96

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Coffee is inversely associated with all cause cardiovascular disease mortality. Drinking 4 cups or more of coffee per day has a preventative effect on stroke. Coffee may reduce the risk of all cause and cardiac mortality. Coffee reduced the risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease.

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Brain: Score 96

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Coffee contains caffeine that can prevent and help brain function in Alzheimer’s disease. There is an inverse association between caffeine intake and the risk of Parkinson’s disease.

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Gout: Score 96

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Human: Serum uric acid level decreased with increasing coffee intake. After adjusting for age and sex, serum uric acid level associated with coffee intake of 4 to 5 and >/=6 cups daily was lower than that associated with no intake

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Liver: Score 96

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Human: An increased consumption of coffee may reduce the risk of liver cancer. There is an inverse relationship between coffee drinking and liver cancer risk. It is associated with less severe liver fibrosis. It is associated with lower levels of fatty liver. Animal: It has a protective effect against chemical induced liver toxicity.

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Colon Health: Score 94

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Human: Coffee increases the metabolic activity and/or numbers of good bacterial population. It is associated with a reduced incidence of rectal cancer.

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Depression: Score 94

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Human: Depression risk decreases with increasing coffee consumption.

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Fat Loss: Score 94

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Human: Coffee reduces body weight and restores red blood cell Vitamin E and glutathione concentrations in healthy volunteers. There is an inverse relationship between coffee consumption and metabolic syndrome.

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Cancer: Score 92

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Human: An increased consumption of coffee may reduce the risk of liver cancer. Tea and coffee consumption appear to lower the risk of glioma. There is an inverse relationship between coffee drinking and hepatocellular carcinoma risk. It is associated with a reduced risk of pancreatic cancer. It may be associated with a lower risk of kidney cell cancer. It is associated with decreased risk of cutaneous malignant melanomas. It is associated with a reduced incidence of rectal cancer.

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Diabetes (Type 2): Score 92

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Human: Coffee is associated with a reduction in the risk of new onset diabetes. Coffee consumption appears to decrease the risk of developing diabetes and is linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes.

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Kidneys: Score 92

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Human: Coffee is associated with lower serum uric acid levels and hyperuricemia frequency. It may be associated with a lower risk of renal cell cancer.

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Parkinson's: Score 90

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Review: There is an inverse association between caffeine intake and the risk of Parkinson’s disease.

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Skin Cancer: Score 90

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Human: Caffeinated coffee consumption is associated with decreased risk of malignant melanomas.

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Alzheimers: Score 90

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Caffeine in coffee can prevent and help brain function in Alzheimer’s disease.

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Pain: Score 90

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Human: People who consumed coffee before performing a simulated computer office – work task found to provoke pain in the neck and shoulders and forearms and wrists exhibited attenuated pain development compared with the subjects who didn’t drink coffee.

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Stroke: Score 90

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Meta Analysis: Coffee consumption of 4 cups or more per day showed a preventive effect on stroke.

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Breast Cancer: Score 86

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Human: It improves the estrogen metabolic profile in adjuvant treated breast cancer patients.

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How Our Scoring System Works

For each health goal, we assigned a score to each recipe and each ingredient. This helps you better understand the correlation that medical research is suggesting between foods and benefits to various health goals. Our scoring system is based on REAL RESEARCH published on pubmed.gov. This is a website that curates over 25 million different biomedical journals.

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What we consider when creating your scores:

  • 1Type of Study (human, animal, lab, or academic review)
  • 2Amount of Research
  • 3What the Research Says
  • 4How much of the ingredient we use (for the recipes)
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