Coffee

Coffee, for most people is the morning staple. Many people need a morning dose of caffeine to get up and get going. How do you pick your coffee? Do you buy the cheapest, the most expensive, somewhere in between? Why don’t you pick your coffee as you pick the other staples in your pantry? Pick the healthiest coffee. Coffee, healthy? Yes! OrGano Gold Coffee is a healthier coffee alternative.

What is OrGano Gold Coffee? This is the only coffee that contains 100% pure organic ganoderma lucidum. According to reishi.com, Ganoderma lucidum is a red mushroom known for its medicinal purposes. This mushroom has been known for 4000 years for its ability to promote well-being and health. Ganoderma is known in China as the “mushroom of immortality.”

The health properties of Ganoderma are widely known and have been praised for many years. This red mushroom is known to help build immune systems. A strong immune system is essential for good health. Ganoderma lucidum will help ward off opportunistic infections such as viruses, the common cold, and the seasonal flu.

Ganoderma lucidum is also known to oxygenate the body. Increased oxygen to the brain helps with mental capabilities and flexibility. With increased oxygenation to the brain, people think clearer and can problem solve better. Increased oxygenation of the muscles improves physical capabilities. While working out you have an increased endurance. Ganoderma lucidum also increases stamina. So not only does ganoderma lucidum improve your endurance but it helps you to continue a task longer. This red mushroom helps to propel you through your daily activities with less fatigue.

Finally, the mushroom is a chock full of natural antioxidants, at least 150, which fight free radicals. These antioxidants will certainly improve your health. Why take a separate supplement when you can get antioxidants in your coffee? No need to worry about remembering to take an antioxidant supplement. So while you drink OrGano Gold’s Coffee you are improving your health.

Taste is important when it comes to your morning cup of coffee. This coffee tastes great! This premium coffee is a blend of 100% Arabica coffee beans and the Ganoderma mushroom. There is something for everyone and the coffee comes in single serving packets. There is no need to make a huge pot of coffee that might become bitter over time. Have your coffee when you want it.

Have your coffee how you want it. There are three types of single serving packets of OrGano Gold Coffee. The first type of coffee packet is OrGano Gold Gourmet Black Coffee. This coffee is a blend of Arabica coffee beans and certified organic Ganoderma lucidum. The second type of single serving coffee packets is OrGano Gold Gourmet Latte. This latte includes Arabica coffee beans, certified organic Ganoderma, creamer, and organic sweetener. The third type of single serving packets is Gourmet Mocha. This mocha includes Arabica coffee beans, certified organic Ganoderma lucidum, and fine cocoa. OrGano Gold Coffee is a great healthy choice for your coffee fix.

Toni Young is an independent distributor of Organo Gold, the 1st company to offer 100% certified organic ganoderma. If your looking for a healthier alternative when drinking your morning coffee, consider this coffee.

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Author: Toni Young
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Is there such a thing as “Healthy Coffee”? What are the benefits of healthier coffee for your health?
In this article, I will cover some known facts about the standard unhealthy coffee. Then show you there is actually a healthier coffee available and what the benefits are when you start drinking this healthier coffee.

Some facts about Coffee
- Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world
- Second largest consumed product next to water being the number one.
- World wide, according to statistics from the International Coffee Organization, people drink about 1.4 billion cups of coffee a day. About 45 percent of it is consumed in the USA.

This is a huge industry and billions of dollars are being made every single day. Everyone knows ‘Star Bucks’ and ‘McDonalds (McCoffee)’. These two giant corporations sell coffee in many different flavors and they are not in the coffee business to make people more healthy. They knew the facts and created a billion dollar plus business, with billions of people world wide being addicted to coffee.

Why are people still drinking unhealthy coffee?
Simply because the caffeine has a stimulation effect on the body. The downside of this is you will need your fix on a regular basis.
Furthermore regular coffee:

* Dehydrates

* Is very acidic and toxic

* It raises blood pressure

* Your stress level increases

All the more reason to limit your daily coffee addiction or find a replacement.

Healthier Coffee
Being a heavy coffee drinker myself I hated instant coffee. This always had an after taste and did not even taste like the coffee I consumed on a daily basis. I know many of you can relate to having to have your morning cup of coffee in order to get your day started. I experienced stomach acid problems, did not get enough sleep and headaches which I all related back to the coffee I was drinking. A very good friend of mine let me taste a sample of what she called ‘Healthier Coffee’. It was instant coffee so yes I was a little bit skeptical, but I did drink it. The aroma and the coffee flavor was great! It tasted even better than my regular coffee brand.

After I discovered this healthier coffee, I did some research on it and found out that it hardly has any caffeine (superior brand of Arabica beans used). More importantly, it is infused with a herb called Ganoderma Lucidium, or red mushroom. This red mushroom has been used in China for over 4,000 years for medicinal purposes, also known as the ‘King of Herbs’. When you do some research on the internet, you will find many businesses who offer this healthier coffee, but only a few really use the power of the Ganoderma or Reishi (Japan) herb.

Healthy Coffee benefits
There has been extensive research to what effects this red mushroom has for your health, here is a list of what it can do for you and your body:

* It will give you more energy and reduce fatigue

* It will increase your brain activity

* Will make you feel young and refresh again

* Improves/boosts your immune system (good alternative for the swine flu too!)

* You will sleep better (For people who suffer from insomnia)

* Healthy weight loss (Instead of pills or other costly weight loss programs)

Conclusion
Regular coffee is not good for your health. In fact, it is damaging your body. So the choice is yours. If you would like to continue to enjoy the rich taste and aroma of gourmet coffee, then I suggest you switch to the healthier coffee with the herb extract in it.

Ganoderma Lucidium was exclusively used by the Chinese emperors for a reason! Compare all the health benefits from drinking healthier coffee versus regular coffee. You’ll be amazed with what it will do for you!

Being a heavy coffee drinker, I discovered the many benefits of drinking healthier coffee instead of regular coffee. I have created a website called The Healthy Coffee Club check it out and come on over to have a healthy cup of coffee and a nice chat! Live healthier!

Author: Cor Fransman
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Top 10 Unusual coffee gifts: So you have your cousin, the heavy gourmet coffee drinker and you want to surprise them this year. But you want to keep it coffee related but not give them the usual coffee beans, or gourmet coffee gift basket or even the usual gourmet coffee accessories or coffee mugs. And they are still using last year’s coffee gift basket and the French press coffee maker only lasted a month before it wore out its differentness and became a hassle.

So what can you give the coffee drinker and keep it usual. Glad you asked?

1. Java logs – Especially for the environmentally conscious coffee-drinker. Java logs are man-made fireplace logs that are made up mostly of coffee grounds
2. Coffee flavored shampoo – for those who just can’t get enough of that coffee aroma and want to smell like coffee all day. Purposively good for the hair though I’m sure the oil is beneficial.
3. Java love lotion – rub on your partner and see if they are as hot as your morning coffee. This has to be taking the “I love coffee” concept too far. ( I’m not making this up)
4. The Barista Action Figure – You coffee superhero can wake you in the morning and save you in the afternoon and make your favorite espresso in the afternoon. ( I’m not making this up)
5. Java necklace – a necklace of roasted and urethane coffee beans and your favorite jewelry stones. What better way to declare your love of coffee to the world? Beaded necklaces and other jewelry made with beads and coffee beans. Choose your favorite roast and favorite stones. Does love get any better than this?
6. Just coffee art – fine canvas paintings completely painted with paint made from coffee oils. It’s hard to believe that these amazing paintings are done entirely in coffee. Why do they paint with coffee? Not sure but I am waiting on the body coffee paints…
7. A real live coffee tree – makes a great indoor plant though I wouldn’t count on any coffee beans. If you do happen to grow some please send to Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee. An ideal gift for any coffee-lover who also has a green thumb. These plants will actually bloom and produce coffee cherries, given the right and perfect growing conditions (they do well indoors as a plant but not a coffee producer).
8. Kopi Luwak coffee beans – don’t try this at home. Surprise someone with a gift box of the rarest coffee there is. It’s also the strangest in my opinion. The Luwak coffee beans have actually been eaten by a small animal before being collected and roasted – poop washed off.
9. Chocolate covered coffee beans – the perfect combination of chocolate and coffee beans or your perfect dose of sugar and caffeine. Give this to your children and watch them bounce off your walls – for days. I can’t imagine eating more than two of these. Take before your next 100 meter dash sprint.
10. Javapops – sweet candy that taste like coffee and is packed with 60 mg of caffeine. The perfect follow-up to the chocolate covered coffee beans. When your kids are coming off their 2 day chocolate covered bean high – give them two of these to offset the down mood. Or use these with your spouse before you lather them up with the coffee bean shampoo.

Isn’t that coffee gift basket looking better and better? If you really want any of these gifts just Google the gift idea and buy online.

Boake Moore is an IT Sales engineer by trade and founded a non profit coffee company called Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee – http://www.missiongrounds.com/ourphilosophy.php It donates all its profits and proceeds to helping orphans and impoverished children. We currently are building schools in rural China, orphanages in South America; supporting orphans in Russia and Africa. And helping homeless children in the United States.

Lets make the world better -

George “Boake” Moore

Mission Grounds

http://www.missiongrounds.com

Author: Boake Moore
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Everyday millions of people around the world begin their day religiously with a morning cup of coffee. Though today we easily identify coffee in its beverage form, it wasn’t always this way in the beginning. Throughout history, coffee has taken on several physical transformations, initially serving as an energy source when nomadic tribes combined coffee berries with animal fat as an early form of an energy bar. Later it was consumed as a tea, then a wine, and finally to the beverage we’ve come to identify today. Since the beginning, coffee has always been a product of great mystery, having been discovered accidentally in wild forests of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and consumed in its native cherry form, then later, passed through fire to significantly alter its chemical state. And although coffee has been in existence for thousands of years, its only been in the past half century or so, that scientists have been able to truly identify and understand what exactly is contained in this mystical bean. To date scientist have identified over 1,000 compounds in coffee, which when compared to products such as wine of chocolate that are composed of a few hundred, pale in comparison to that of coffee. Luckily through advancements in technology, much of coffee’s chemical make-up has been unlocked and we now have a better perspective on the chemistry contained within this mystical bean.

Caffeine

For many, coffee drinking is simply a delivery medium for a potent alkaloid we have come to identify as caffeine or technically as 1,3,7 – trimethylxanthine. Although caffeine is strongly associated with coffee, its production within the plant kingdom is not exclusive but is seen throughout several other forms of plant life. Mate, for example, which is traditionally consumed in parts of Uruguay and Argentina, contains less than one percent by weight. Whereas, tea leafs (Camellia sinesis) which originated in China, contain almost three times the concentration of caffeine than Arabica, with Brazilian mate almost twice that of robusta coffee. Turns out that Mother Nature was quite generous when it came to distributing caffeine amongst the plant kingdom. But for humans, caffeine is very unique. Thus far we are the only living forms on Earth that readily seek caffeine for both its stimulatory and psychological effects. For all other life forms, caffeine is a potent toxin capable of sterilization, phytotoxicity and antifungal properties. As such scientists believe that caffeine, with its intensely bitter taste, has evolved as a primitive defense mechanism in coffee ensuring its survival in the wild for thousands of years. It’s no suprise then, that the caffeine content of the more “robust” Robusta species is almost double that of the more delicate Arabica. The belief is that as insects attack the coffee cherry, they are deterred by the bitter taste of caffeine and simply move on to the next crop. Since Arabica is typically grown at higher altitudes than Robusta, where the attack of insects is reduced, Arabica has evolved to produce less caffeine.

Lipids

Lipid production and its subsequent survival after the roasting process play an important role to overall coffee quality. In general, most of the lipids exist in the form of a coffee oil and are located within the endosperm (bean) of the cherry, with only a small percentage deposited onto the outer portion of the coffee wax. Coincidentally, scientists have analyzed and discovered that much of the chemical make-up of coffee oil is very similar to that of vegetable cooking oils. As such, much of the lipid content in coffee remain unchanged and relatively stable even at the elevated temperatures associated with roasting. In its green form both Arabica and Robusta coffee contain on average 15-17% and 10-11.5%, respectively. But because Arabica contains about 60% more lipids than Robusta, many believe this stark difference is one reason responsible for quality difference between both species. Thus far, the claim has remained unconfirmed, until French scientists recently discovered a direct correlation between lipid content and overall cup quality. It turns out that as lipid content increases within the bean, so does overall cup quality. It’s a very plausible explanation when one considers that the majority of important flavor compounds in coffee are also fat soluble.

Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates make up roughly fifty percent of coffee’s total dry weight by composition. After roasting, remaining carbohydrates in the cup contribute to  mouth-feel or body, with some studies suggesting they are also responsible for the quality of the foam common in espresso beverages. Although there are numerous types of carbohydrates in coffee, perhaps the most important is that of sucrose. Sucrose, or more commonly known as table sugar, make up 6-9% in Arabica with a slightly less (3-7%) amount contained in Robusta coffee. During roasting, sucrose is readily decomposed and studies have shown that up to 97% of the initial sucrose content is lost even at light roasts. Its role during roasting is enormous with a large portion of the available carbohydrates participating in the Maillard and numerous others secondary reactions. One class of important byproducts created during roasting are those of organic acids. In its native green form, coffee contains negligible amounts of formic, acetic and latic acid. Though once roasted, there is a exponential increase in aliphatic acid production, along with a paralleled increase in coffee acidity. Since acidity plays an important role in assessing quality, it’s no surprise why see typically see higher levels of perceived acidity in Arabica coffee than Robusta, due in part, to its higher sucrose concentration. Coincidentally, in the past year Brazilian scientists have identified a single gene, sucrose synthase, which controls sucrose production in plants and may hold the key for cultivating higher quality coffee for years to come.

Proteins

Protein content for both green Arabica and Robusta coffee vary between 10-13% and exists as free or bound proteins within the coffee matrix. Although actual concentrations can vary, there are a number of factors that can affect free protein content, including improper storage which may increase free proteins levels and lead to detrimental effects on quality. During roasting, proteins combine with carbohydrates in what is perhaps the most important reaction for all thermally processed foods – the Maillard Reaction. These set of reactions, discovered by a French chemist in 1910, is what is largely responsible for transforming the mere handful of compounds found in green coffee to the complex matrix that coffee is today. As temperatures reach 150C (302F), the Maillard reaction propel free proteins in coffee to combine with reducing sugars, ultimately leading to the formation  hundreds of important aromatic compounds. Of these, pyrazines and pyridines have the greatest aromatic contribution and are responsible for the distinct maize/nutty aromas found in coffee. The reaction also leads to the formation of brown-colored polymetric melanoidins - the compounds responsible for coffee’s color.

Coincidentally, this is the same set of reaction that give rise to the alluring aromas we generate when toasting a loaf of bread or grilling a piece of steak. Although many of the byproducts created during the Maillard reaction are beneficial to coffee, in other agricultural products, these set of browning reactions can be a serious detriment to quality. In the cup, proteins also play a role in taste by forming secondary compounds during the roasting process. It turns out that the majority of coffee’s “bitterness” is not due solely to caffeine, but rather bitter compounds produced during the Maillard reaction. Caffeine, as intensely bitter as it is, accounts for only 10-20% of coffee’s total bitterness.

Joseph A. Rivera, is founder and creator – http://www.coffeechemistry.com – the largest coffee technical information portal for the specialty coffee industry. He is a frequent contributor and presenter for numerous trade publications and international conferences. He can be reached at jrivera@coffeechemistry.com

Author: Joseph Rivera
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Bored with your regular coffee or tea? If you’re the owner of a single cup coffee maker from Keurig, a wide world of flavor possibilities awaits you. Here is an overview of a few of the most exotic Keurig coffee and tea varieties:

o Island Coconut Coffee from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

Try this seasonal flavor for a tropical coffee treat. Island Coconut Coffee from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is praised for its fresh, fruity aroma and creamy coconut flavor. Mixed with ice and a splash of coconut rum, this coffee makes a fantastic after-dinner drink.

o Sugar Bush Maple Coffee from Timothy’s World Coffees

This medium roasted coffee from Timothy’s World Coffees is a true taste sensation for maple syrup lovers. Unlike other blends which make use of cinnamon and maple flavorings, Sugar Bush Maple provides the taste and aroma of pure maple syrup. If you enjoy the smell of coffee and maple-syrup covered pancakes in the morning, Sugar Bush Maple Coffee is the brew for you.

o Orange Indulgence White Tea from Timothy’s World Coffees

White tea is renowned for its delicate flavor and healthful benefits. Made from immature tea leaves, white tea contains anti-oxidants that stimulate health and boost the immune system. Orange Indulgence White Tea from Timothy’s World Coffees combines the sweet, silky taste of white tea with a delicate blend of orange and apricot for a truly refreshing experience.

o Cranberry Twist Green Tea from Timothy’s World Coffees

The health benefits of green tea are surpassed only by those of white tea – however, the taste of Cranberry Twist Green Tea from Timothy’s World Coffees is second to none. This delightful, flavored tea combines the antioxidant benefits of green tea with the sweet, yet tart taste of fresh cranberries.

o Mango Tea from Gloria Jean’s Coffees

Capture the essence of the topics with Mango Tea from Gloria Jean’s Coffees. This unique blend of China Black and Ceylon tea is flavored with the essence of mango, giving it a light and fruity aroma.

o Kenyan AA Extra Bold from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

As the birthplace of coffee, Africa produces some of the world’s finest coffee beans. From its musky aroma to its floral and fruity taste, Kenyan AA Extra Bold from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters embodies much of what is prized about African coffees.

These fantastic flavors are sure to provide a welcome break in your morning routine. Give them a try – you might just find a new favorite.

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R.L. Fielding has been a freelance writer for 10 years, offering her expertise and skills to a variety of major organizations in the education, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing industries. She lives in New Jersey with her dog and two cats and enjoys rock climbing and ornamental gardening.

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