Gourmet Coffee Beans

Last year’s July issue of Wired Magazine “What’s Inside” expose on Red Bull. I am sure many of us like me have no idea so this will be surprising for some.

Glucose - Sugar water

Taurine - Also known as 2-aminoethane-sulfonic acid, this was originally isolated from bull bile in 1827. Don’t worry as this in now made sythetically.

Glucuronolactone - Not many studies are available that ascertain what this can do for you.

Caffeine - Ahh, the driver of coffee. Increases concentration and reaction speed improve emotional stat and boost metabolism.

Niacin - Also used to lower cholesterol. This increased the HDL, good cholesterol, is in such low amount that you will not be able to use this as an excuse to drink to improve your pipe work.

Sodium Citrate - Used as a preservative in soft drinks and soft cheese. This helps convert glucose into lactic acid during exercise that has been proven to improve athletic performance.

Inositol - Found in animal muscle, this carbohydrate has been found to reduce depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic attacks and agoraphobia. This sounds great but you will need to drink 360 cans per day to make this chemical meaning for you.

The popular convention is that espresso has a stronger punch and more caffeine than a regular cup of coffee. Is it because of the stronger taste that people convey into a stronger cup of coffee? Well you may be surprised to read that coffee has much more caffeine content than a cup of espresso.

A 12 oz cup of coffee has 240 milligrams of caffeine. Compare that to a single shot of espresso (1 oz.) which contains 75 milligrams of caffeine. Now if you were to drink 12 oz. of espresso you would be riding a rocket ship of energy since it would pack a whopping 900 mg of caffeine.

In Miami Cuban coffee is the popular far which most people also believe is stronger than regular coffee. Cuban coffee is just plain espresso loaded with several teaspoons of sugar in just one ounce. People mistake the strong take plus the sugar rush with a high caffeine content

We have experience a problem with our coffee farmer in Costa Rica which has stopped shipping coffee. This was a sudden decision and unfortunately we were not ready to suddenly transition to an different coffee farm but our search has been completed. We should have this back up on our website within one week.
We have decided on a coffee that comes from the same valley in Tarrazu in the town of San Marco. We visited them a few weeks ago and the coffee is of equal high quality. This coffee also is Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance Certified.

We could have easily have purchased Costa Rican Tarrazu coffee from a wholesaler here in the states as most other coffee companies but that would go against our business mission. The problem with buying from wholesale coffee traders is that what you are buying is always in question. The Tarrazu coffee that the Costa Rican coffee board certifies is a rather broad geographic designation.

By going directly to the coffee farmer we are assured of the consistent high quality.

My apology for the delay in getting restocked but I believe that you will be please with our selection.

Chieti, Italy - A new analysis of the GISSI-Prevenzione trial shows that moderate coffee intake does not appear to have any effect on future cardiovascular events in patients who have already had an MI. Dr Maria Giuseppina Silletta (Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy) and colleagues report their results online December 3, 2007 in Circulation.

Silletta stressed to heartwire, however, that the findings can really be applied only to patients eating a Mediterranean diet who drink coffee prepared in the Italian way. Most of the participants in this study drank mocha or espresso coffee, which is unfiltered—the ground coffee beans are in contact with hot water for only a very short time, Silletta explained.

“We will tell patients that it is no problem for them to drink a moderate amount of coffee (two to four cups per day) after a heart attack, there is no cause for concern,” she said. But she noted that her team could not draw conclusions about very high coffee intake because of the small number of patients included in this category.

First to evaluate effects of coffee on a large prospective cohort of CHD patients

The Italian researchers explain that many studies have looked at the association between coffee consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, “but the issue remains controversial.” Case-control studies suggest a harmful effect of coffee drinking on the risk of CHD, whereas prospective cohort studies show conflicting findings. And more recent studies have shown that coffee consumption may lower the risk of type 2 diabetes, they say.

But evidence is scarce on the association between coffee drinking and cardiovascular events among patients with documented CVD, they point out. Hence they decided to analyze data from a large cohort of patients who had had an MI and were enrolled in the GISSI-Prevenzione trial.

In their analysis, they included 11 231 patients with recent MI (within past three months), the majority of whom were male (n=9584). Usual dietary habits were assessed at baseline and updated at 0.5 and 1.5 years. Coffee consumption was categorized as never/almost never, low (less than two cups per day), moderate (two to four cups per day), or high (more than four cups per day).

The main outcome measure was the cumulative incidence of cardiovascular events (cardiovascular death, nonfatal MI, and nonfatal stroke). A total of 1167 events occurred during the three-and-a-half-year follow-up, with no significant differences found between the various categories of coffee drinker.

Coffee consumption and relative risk of CV events among 11 231 participants in the GISSI-Prevenzione trial