Many people do not imagine a good morning without a cup of strong and fragrant coffee. Despite the fact that the idea of preparing a coffee drink arose a very long time, until today, scientists and nutritionists can not agree on whether coffee is useful. Skeptics often ask what the benefits of coffee can be, and this article is designed to answer this question.
Useful qualities and properties of coffee
"How useful is natural coffee?" - this is the main question, the answer to which you will now read.
Useful properties of coffee beverage were known even in ancient Rome, even though at that time the concept of "a cup of coffee" did not exist, because initially coffee beans were not brewed, but used for food. Coffee beans are a storehouse of useful microelements and vitamins. In natural coffee contains calcium, magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, iron, sulfur, - more than 30 essential organic acids and many other useful substances.
Many people associate coffee with not the main component of it - caffeine. Most likely, you have heard enough about his magical toning properties. In coffee beans of good quality, only 2.5% of caffeine. Natural coffee, a beneficial effect on the central nervous system, as well as increases the content of "useful" cholesterol in the blood of a person. Scientists have been shown that regular consumption of coffee 2-3 cups a day has a positive effect on the gallbladder. Another important discovery was that coffee protects the body from the development of such a serious disease as diabetes.
The Benefits of Natural Coffee
The coffee contains the hormone of happiness serotonin, so it is commonly believed that coffee helps to get rid of depression and cheers up. The use of two cups of coffee a day reduces the risk of depression by 40%.
The great contribution to the culture of drinking coffee and its recipe was made by the Arabs. They began to add cinnamon and ginger to the fragrant drink, and later even milk. Now there are lots of ways and recipes for making coffee. Next, consider the benefits of drinking coffee with the addition of various ingredients.
- Use of coffee with lemon. Many people like to drink coffee with lemon, as it is not only tasty, but also useful. Citric acid affects caffeine, neutralizing its negative effect on the cardiovascular system, so you can drink this drink even for people who have coffee contraindicated.
- Use of coffee with milk. Adding milk to coffee makes the taste of the drink gentle and soft. To this method of drinking coffee is often resorted to by people who do not like its natural bitter aftertaste. The benefits of coffee with milk are obvious, because milk is a very useful product of natural origin, containing proteins that our body can not produce independently. Globulin, albumin and casein are among them.
- Use of coffee with cognac. Coffee with cognac helps to increase the pressure. This can be considered as its plus or minus, because it can be used by people with various cardiovascular diseases, and in this case, the increase in blood pressure may negatively affect their health. Otherwise, coffee with cognac is a very good and pleasant way to increase low blood pressure.
- The use of decaffeinated coffee. Decaffeinated coffee is an alternative
Natural coffee for those people who for health reasons simply can not afford to use it in the usual way. It is worth noting that this coffee is not a safe substance - ethyl acetate, so scientists recommend instead of decaffeinated coffee to use chicory. It has a milder effect on the human body. - The benefits of green coffee. Green coffee is usually called not roasted coffee tree fruit. It is believed that the drink from green coffee has a greater amount of antioxidants, besides, not roasted coffee beans do not emit harmful oils, which means that a drink made from them is very useful.