Even cheap coffee has an anti-cancer effect
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Do you like coffee? For those who do not imagine the morning without a favorite drink, there is another pleasant news: coffee is really useful! Specialists from the Spanish University confidently state that coffee grains have unique antioxidant abilities that do not disappear even during processing.
Scientific experts representing the University of Granada, told on the pages of the periodical Food Science and Technology, that coffee is rich in very useful for human health substances. According to scientists, in terms of their exposure, these substances are almost 500 times more active than all known ascorbic acid and green tea extract.
Antioxidants of super-powerful action are present in the husks of coffee beans and directly in the coffee grounds. The researchers found that useful components are also available in the offal, based on which most often produce cheap sorts of coffee. But most consumers with disdain refer to such products, choosing more expensive varieties of the drink.
Antioxidants, or antioxidants, are unique substances that inhibit oxidative processes in the body. In other words, antioxidants relieve the body of damaging particles - the so-called free radicals, whose action can, in particular, lead to the development of cancer tumors. The structure of free radicals is unstable, and their impact on human health is detrimental.
"As a part of coffee subproducts there is a huge amount of other useful components, one part of which helps stabilize the balance of the intestinal microflora, while the other part inhibits the development of pathogenic microorganisms," the researchers say.
If we talk about high-quality coffee beans - in particular, experts analyzed the composition of Arabica grains, - then experiments on rats made it possible to identify in them, in addition to powerful antioxidants, a considerable amount of melanoidins. Melanoidins are the products of the sugar-amino processes - the reactions of the combination of proteins with carbohydrates. Scientists say: these compounds should be actively used to rid the body of pathogens.
Separately, it should be said about the other benefits of coffee - and here on the foreground comes not the composition of the product, but its aroma. For many people, the inhalation of coffee aroma activates the production in the brain of the pleasure hormone. Not without reason, when inhaling such a smell, there often arises an association with warmth and comfort. For true coffeemans it is enough to spend a few minutes near the coffee being prepared, to breathe in the aroma - and life is getting better!
Meanwhile, scientists conducted a number of experiments, during which it was found: coffee aroma makes changes in the work of seventeen genes and in the production of proteins in the brain. In particular, the smell of coffee beans activates in the body the synthesis of substances that serve as antioxidants.
Therefore, if you are not a big fan of drinking coffee - you can just smell it. This will already be enough to rejuvenate the body and prevent the development of oncology.
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