Coffee made in workplace machines is risky for cardiovascular health: study

Your coffee consumption at work can raise problems for your heart.

A new study – Published in The Scientific Journal Nutrition, metabolism and cardiovascular disease – Analyzed samples from 14 coffee machines in four different workplaces in Sweden to determine whether office coffee raises cholesterol compared to brewing coffee at home.

“The intake of insufficiently filtered coffee during working hours may be a overlooked factor for cardiovascular health due to its effect on plasmailester seal concentrations,” ended researchers.

This means that coffee from your office machines may contain more cholesterol -enhancing compounds, similar to the samples in this study.

“Based on the concentrations of CaFasol and Kahweol in investigated machine coffee, it seems thoroughly filtered coffee as the preferred choice for cardiovascular health,” the researchers continued. “Consequently, filtered coffee should be preferred, even in workplace settings.”

Researchers studied samples from three types of office machines: brewing machines, fluid model machines and fast machines.

“Brewing machines produce coffee from whole or soil beans in approximately (10 to 30 seconds), as hot water is mixed with the coffee and passes a metal filter,” the study noted. “Liquid models can give a cup within seconds and do not use a filter, but instead mix a liquid coffee concentrate with warm water. Independent machines mix using immediately, freeze -dried coffee with hot water.”

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The researchers compared these workplace methods with other commonly used methods with bridge and paper filters coffee at home: drip brewed coffee, percolator, French press/cafetière and boiled coffee.

Comparison of the machines with these more thoroughly filtered methods recommended the researchers to “replace three cups of brewing machine coffee with paper-filtered coffee five days per week was estimated to reduce LDL cholesterol” (alias poor cholesterol) over time.

Other studies have proclaimed the benefits of coffee – in moderation – to heart vessels, cognitive, metabolic and neurological health.

Dr. Donald Hensrud wrote for Mayo Clinic “Drinking coffee can be linked to a lower risk of: Parkinson’s disease, type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease among some groups of people; metabolic syndrome and chronic kidney disease; liver cancer and liver disease, including cirrhosis; and gallstones and kidney stones.”