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Would You Like Green…Coffee?
A Bite-Size Read for Your Health and Waistline
How would you take your green coffee? Cream and sugar? Or maybe you just need a couple pumps of your favorite sweetener and you’re good. No matter what, you won’t be finding this on any of Starbucks’ menus. It was a buzzword in health and wellness a few years back, but I continue to hear about it! It’s still often misinterpreted as a drink (as opposed to an ingredient), so I want to review it all here. Grab your favorite mug!
The first fact we need to get straight is that people often confuse green coffee with other caffeinated drinks such as: coffee itself, green tea, black tea…you name it. It’s not the same! While both green coffee and the coffee you scoop into a machine every morning both come from the same coffee fruit, green coffee is the unroasted bean. The biggest difference comes from their chemical profiles, namely the amount of chlorogenic acid. To be clear, once anything is done to the coffee bean, like roasting to turn it into your magic brown liquid, it is no longer considered green coffee. This untouched green coffee bean is super bitter. Expect that if you see a drink called green coffee, it’s probably processed to taste more palatable for consumption…and therefore, has likely lost the health benefits!
Coffee in general can provide some potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory…
