
Coffee: Sip or Skip?
Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger
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Which coffee is healthier light roast or dark roast? The amount of cholesterol raising compounds in the lightest roast coffee Maybe twice as high compared to using very dark roast beans. Dark roasting can wipe out up to 99.8% of pesticides and Conventionally grown coffee and more than 90% of a fungal contaminant called ochratoxin. A single medium portion of grilled chicken could have over a thousand times more benzapyrin per cup. Even a single cup of coffee can affect the blood sugar response but you don't know if that translates into clinical effects.
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