Green Coffee Beans and Your Health

Good Morning Coffee Lovers,

Have you noticed that green is the catch phrase for everything healthy these days; for the earth and for our bodies? Green tea has long had the reputation as the healthy drink of choice and making passionate coffee drinkers like myself feel a bit guilty that tea just doesn't do it for me. Well here is some interesting news on the health benefits of green coffee beans.

According to HealthGuidance.org there is a green coffee bean extract that trumps both green tea and grape seed extract for antioxidant benefits. This is because it taps into the cholorgenic acid that gives coffee most of its health benefits like neutralizing free radicals and regulating metabolism. Without getting too scientific and discussing things like cafestrol and diterpenes, I can tell you that the report says that drinking this concoction is shown to increase the effects of painkillers and migraine medications, to lower the risk of diabetes and increase the body's fat burning ability. (The last is why you might have seen reports on drinking green coffee to lose weight.)

Sure we sell green coffee beans, but I have to admit I just love the smell and taste of freshly roasted gourmet coffee here at our Vermont roastery. So if you are looking for Father's Day coffee gift baskets, I'd really recommend that you give Dad something like a tried and true Columbian Supremo unless he really wants to try green coffee.

The roasting process is what makes coffee beans taste like the coffee we love. I don't know what this green coffee extract drink tastes like, but I hear it's more like a tea than a coffee. Frankly, that's just not my cup of- well, you know what I mean!

The use of green coffee beans at this point is interesting. What's your take? Ever tried it? Would you?

Until our next cup,
Sandy Riggen