r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 17d ago

Health Boiled coffee in a pot contains high levels of the worst of cholesterol-elevating substances. Coffee from most coffee machines in workplaces also contains high levels of cholesterol-elevating substances. However, regular paper filter coffee makers filter out most of these substances, finds study.

https://www.uu.se/en/press/press-releases/2025/2025-03-21-cholesterol-elevating-substances-in-coffee-from-machines-at-work
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u/RunningNumbers 17d ago

I just remember the uncivilized coffee machine that everyone used at work when I lived in Denmark. Terrible acrid sludge. And they were like “this is fine.”

Barbarians should have stuck to raiding monasteries.

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u/giant3 17d ago

Actually, this method extracts the maximum amount of caffeine and other beneficial compounds. 

We have to prove that this cholesterol from this method is harmful. Otherwise, it is like that scare about cholesterol from eggs.

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u/hyldemarv 17d ago

Yeah, coffee that puts some hair on your chest *and* it wakes you up too :)

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u/RunningNumbers 17d ago

I live within walking distances of like 5 coffee roasters now and don’t have to deal with the 25% VAT or those long winters. I am spoiled now.