Cholesterol-elevating substances in coffee from machines at work - Uppsala University
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The coffee from most of the coffee machines in workplaces contains relatively high levels of cholesterol-elevating substances. There is a big difference in comparison to coffee made in regular paper filter coffee makers, which filter out most of these substances.

  • Hamartiogonic
    5·
    3 days ago

    The fact that boiled coffee in a pot contains high levels of the worst of the cholesterol-elevating substances, the diterpenes cafestol and kahweol, is already known. It’s even mentioned in the latest Nordic nutritional recommendations, where the advice is to reduce or refrain from drinking boiled coffee. However, a regular drip-filter coffee maker, which uses a paper filter, manages to almost completely filter out these cholesterol-elevating substances.

    Sounds like I won’t be using an espresso machine or moka pot very much in the future.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
      4·
      3 days ago

      Is there a study about coffee filter chemicals?
      I’ve always been weary about such stuff, PFAS etc are everywhere.

      • Hamartiogonic
        2·
        3 days ago

        Haven’t seen one about that yet. Potential PFAS sources are literally everywhere nowadays, so I’m not entirely sure how concerned should I be. Many coffee machines have plastic parts here and there, so the paper is probably the least of my concerns.