From The Coffee Geek
Just remember, the coffee bean is nature's most complex natural foodstuff. Over 3,000 chemical components between the green and roasted bean, and some
800 of them directly responsible for taste and flavour (source, Andrea and Dr. Ernesto Illy: Espresso, the Chemistry of Quality). By comparison, a fine red wine has about 300 identifiable components that contribute to taste. And it's nature's (and man's) second most complex food item. If you ever wondered why 'coffee flavoured' isn't exactly coffee flavoured, the above numbers are why.
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3 Comments
Anonymous
February 11th, 2002
at 10:23am
Whoops! I think we scared CoffeeGeek since its server is down or non-existent.
Anonymous
February 11th, 2002
at 1:01pm
From your concerned wife:
Something else to consider about the complexity of coffee is of all the scary stuff in it too, dear. According to our Bathroom Reader, a blurb I read in there yesterday said that there are hundreds of chemicals in it, and of 35 that had been tested, 19 were shown to cause cancer in laboratory rats…
*sigh*
Al
November 19th, 2007
at 1:56am
I don’t know, Europeans drink a lot of coffee and i never hear of cancer causing components from any one over there? I know people that were avid coffee drinkers all there life and no issues what so ever. In fact i read that coffee has anti-oxidant properties as well.