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7. Nutrition and health
The nutritional virtues of coffee and its influence on health have long been the subject of often contradictory publications every year. It's not easy to find a convergence of irrefutable results for many of the – good or bad – properties attributed to coffee.
However, a few broad outlines do emerge. For a very long time, coffee, thanks to its caffeine content, has been considered a tonicardiac and a stimulant, even an excitant for some. But since the 1990s, some 30 years ago, American and Japanese studies have attributed preventive properties to coffee.
7.1 Caffeine
Caffeine's main properties are its stimulant and tonic effects, linked to its physiological action on the nervous system
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Bibliography
- (1) - International coffee Organization - Monthly Coffee Market Report, - janv. 2020 http://www.ico.org/Market-Report
- (2) - GUYOT (B.), PENTGA (E.)., VINCENT...
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