So coffee is rich in antioxidants. But there are several different types of coffee that man drinks. Which one contains the highest antioxidant level?
The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Pavia in Pavia, Italy studied the antioxidants present in the green and dark roasted coffees Coffee Arabica and Coffee robusta. Not surprisingly, they found that all of the studied coffees showed a strong presence of them and also anti-radical activity.
However, their findings showed that there was no marked difference between the green and dark roasted coffee. This indicated that the roasting process did not damage the natural antioxidant presence in the coffee beans.
In another study, the School of Food Bio Sciences at the University of Reading, Whiteknights in Reading, United Kingdom looked at the effects of roasting coffee, with the goal of finding out the negative effects on antioxidant presence.
The scientists studied the Colombian Arabica coffee that was roasted to light, medium, and dark roast. They found that medium roasted coffee had the maximum detoxification activity. This is substantially different from the widely accepted assumption that dark roasted coffee had more antioxidant benefits.
It appears, according to this study, that medium roasted coffee has a more powerful antioxidant effect than the dark roasted one.
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