Can You Drink \ Eat Green Coffee Beans?

Green coffee refers to the raw beans of the coffee plant.

Green coffee is increasingly common in the health and wellness community.

The beverage gets its color and bigger caffeine kick from un-roasted coffee beans.

As such, you may have heard about its rich supply of health-promoting plant compounds.

Green coffee beans are simply regular coffee beans that haven’t been roasted and remain completely raw.

Their extract is popular as a dietary supplement, but green coffee can also be purchased in whole-bean form and used to make a hot beverage, much like roasted?coffee.

Bear in mind that a mug of this light green drink will not taste like the roasted coffee you’re used to, as it has a much milder flavor. It’s said to taste more like herbal tea than coffee.

What’s more, its chemical profile is quite different than that of roasted coffee, though their origins are similar.

It boasts an abundant supply of chromogenic acids — compounds with potent?antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects that may provide many health benefits.

Roasted coffee products also contain small amounts of chromogenic acid, but most of it is lost during the roasting process.

Effects of excess caffeine

Much like roasted coffee, green coffee beans naturally contain caffeine.

Although moderate caffeine intake is likely safe for most healthy people, too much could lead to negative symptoms, such as?anxiety, sleep disturbances, and increased blood pressure.

One cup (8 ounces) of either black or green coffee provides roughly 100 mg of caffeine, depending on the variety and brewing method.

Because a small amount of caffeine may be lost during the roasting process, green coffee may contain slightly more caffeine than black — but the difference is likely negligible.

Meanwhile, green coffee supplements usually offer 20–50 mg per capsule, though some are decaffeinated during processing.

If you’re taking green coffee in any form, you may want to?moderate your intake to avoid effects.

Although these results are promising, larger studies are needed.

Green coffee may reduce your risk for heart disease and type 2 diabetes, though more research is needed.

Meanwhile, green coffee supplements usually offer 20–50 mg per capsule, though some are decaffeinated during processing.

?Like many other supplements, green coffee bean may be marketed as a natural solution to weight loss.

The term “natural” is common in the supplement industry, but it doesn’t necessarily mean a product is safe. In fact, there is no legal definition of “natural.”

Many plants that grow in nature can be deadly, and natural supplements can still have added, unnatural ingredients.

If you’re thinking about trying green coffee beans as part of your weight loss plan, check the company you’re buying from.

Make sure they aren’t being accused of fraud or contaminating their products with unlisted ingredients.

It’s also important to discuss any supplements with your doctor, especially if you have other conditions like?high blood pressure or?diabetes, or are taking medications.

If bananas are green, they’re not ripe enough to eat.

If meat or potatoes turn green, they’re starting to go bad.

If you see green spots on bread or fruit, it’s time to throw them out.

Green?coffee ?

That’s a completely different matter.

You may have heard or read about green coffee supplements in connection with weight loss programs, but if you’ve ever gone to the supermarket or your local coffee shop to look for real green coffee, you may have been disappointed. Some carry it, but most don’t.

The purported weight loss benefits of green coffee are quite controversial, and we’ll get into that story shortly. Even so, it’s become quite popular in the health and wellness world.

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Thank you?....Despite the recent hype, green coffee isn’t some exotic variety sourced from specialty growers or far-away nations. In reality, there’s an enormous supply of green coffee beans on every coffee farm and plantation.

Even if you grow your own coffee at home, you’ve got plenty, too.

Green coffee comes from green coffee beans.

And there’s a synonym for green coffee beans: coffee beans.

That’s right; green coffee is simply a product of regular, normal, raw coffee beans that haven’t been roasted yet.

Coffee beans that have been picked and processed are green, and only take on their familiar brown color?because of the roasting process.

If you thought that coffee beans are red or yellow when picked, you’re half-right. Those are the?coffee "cherries "?that contain the beans.

There’s one more definition we should cover before moving on: green coffee extract. Obviously, the substance is extracted from raw coffee beans, and it’s the product marketed as a weight loss supplement.

However, it also has an important use in the coffee industry. Green coffee bean extract is used in process of decaffeinating coffee, an all-natural method.

So that’s the simple answer: green coffee is coffee that hasn’t been roasted.

You can still drink it, though.

Do you want to add a word or two?....

Most of the “coffee flavor” we’re accustomed to, as well as the brew’s trademark aroma, are attributable to the roasting process.

So if you drink green coffee in a blind taste test, you might not even realize that it’s coffee.

Green coffee has a much milder, lighter flavor than regular coffee, and when it’s made properly it has a bit of thickness to it.

Some describe the taste as “grassy” or compare it to that of green or herbal tea, but it’s not quite the same. It’s also more acidic than roasted coffee.

Coffee made from the raw green beans doesn’t really look like “coffee,” either. It usually has an amber color, sometimes with a hint of green.

Those are surface differences, though.

The important question – at least when considering health and medical benefits – is whether roasted and green coffee have the same chemical characteristics.

They don’t.

Your comments ….

What happens if I eat some?coffee beans?

It’s a question many coffee lovers have no doubt pondered each time they open up a fresh bag.

If you’d like to try chewing your caffeine fix.

Coffee beans are actually the?seeds of the coffee fruit?or cherry.

?During processing, the fruit part is stripped away and the seed inside is dried to leave raw green coffee beans.

Just as any health benefits of coffee are amplified when eating the beans, so too are any negative effects.

If you find brewed coffee gives you heartburn or other unwanted side-effects, these are likely to be worsened if you chew coffee beans in any significant quantity.

Eating too many might also have a laxative effect or even lead to?high cholesterol. Of course,?if you’re pregnant, breastfeeding, or have a medical condition that means you should exclude or limit caffeinated or acidic food/drink, eating coffee beans is probably not a good idea.

If in doubt, seek medical advice

These green beans are roasted on a scale (from light to dark), which gives us the coffee beans we all know and love. The roasted beans are ground and brewed to make our favorite drink.

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