Hi ALL,
Coffee is looking better all the time - this time the good news is related to it's choline content. Of course, eggs are a better source of choline than coffee, but some of us can't eat eggs, and most of us like to root for the underdog, anyway.
For something that doctors claim is bad for us, coffee sure seems to have a lot of benefits. Now, reducing the risk of breast cancer can be added to the list.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080403/aqth514.html?.v=3
Tex
Another Gold Star For Coffee - And Eggs, If You Can Eat Them
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Another Gold Star For Coffee - And Eggs, If You Can Eat Them
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Coffee is great, it's those pesky added things that are a problem. I found this while looking for hidden corn,soy,gluten or dairy in Rick's diet. Along with this, his smokeless tobacco and toothpaste had additives that were probably the reason he is still having trouble.....nothing is safe it would seem.... 
Fingerprinting Fake Coffee
ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2007) — With prices of gourmet coffee approaching sticker-shock levels, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of a method to "fingerprint" coffee to detect when corn has been mixed in to short-change customers.
Gulab Jham and colleagues point out that such adulteration of Brazilian coffee is among the most serious problems affecting coffee quality -- with cereal grains, coffee twigs, and brown sugar sometimes mixed into the genuine article. Their research focuses on detecting corn, probably the most widely used adulterant.
The study describes development and use on six popular coffee brands of a method for analyzing one form of vitamin E in Brazilian coffee. Because roasted corn samples have high concentrations of vitamin E, it serves as a fingerprint for adulteration with corn. In laboratory tests they found that one brand of Brazilian coffee contained almost 9 percent corn. Although noting that their results are preliminary, the scientists say their new method appears to be "a significant improvement" over existing tests to detect corn adulteration.
"Gamma-Tocopherol as a Marker of Brazilian Coffee (Coffea arabica L.) Adulteration by Corn," Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, August 8, 2007.
Adapted from materials provided by American Chemical Society, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.
Fingerprinting Fake Coffee
ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2007) — With prices of gourmet coffee approaching sticker-shock levels, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of a method to "fingerprint" coffee to detect when corn has been mixed in to short-change customers.
Gulab Jham and colleagues point out that such adulteration of Brazilian coffee is among the most serious problems affecting coffee quality -- with cereal grains, coffee twigs, and brown sugar sometimes mixed into the genuine article. Their research focuses on detecting corn, probably the most widely used adulterant.
The study describes development and use on six popular coffee brands of a method for analyzing one form of vitamin E in Brazilian coffee. Because roasted corn samples have high concentrations of vitamin E, it serves as a fingerprint for adulteration with corn. In laboratory tests they found that one brand of Brazilian coffee contained almost 9 percent corn. Although noting that their results are preliminary, the scientists say their new method appears to be "a significant improvement" over existing tests to detect corn adulteration.
"Gamma-Tocopherol as a Marker of Brazilian Coffee (Coffea arabica L.) Adulteration by Corn," Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, August 8, 2007.
Adapted from materials provided by American Chemical Society, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.
Maybe now that corn's getting to be so expensive, they'll stop trying to add the dang stuff to everything, especially the HFCS. Compared with coffee, though, corn's still pretty cheap at around 10 cents a pound, but that's more than twice what it cost a year or so ago.
Good detective work - it never occurred to me that one might find corn in coffee. Of course, when you've got processors "cheating" on ingredients, anything is possible, I suppose.
Thanks,
Tex
Good detective work - it never occurred to me that one might find corn in coffee. Of course, when you've got processors "cheating" on ingredients, anything is possible, I suppose.
Thanks,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
True, at the price of livestock feed containing corn.....you would think they would be adding something cheaper.....like gold or oil... 
Finding out that we have not had him SF,CF,GF could explain why the entocort and pred had not helped. We now have removed the offending toothpaste and he is quiting smokeless tobacco also. I have found that coffee grown in Asia and Africa doesn't seem to have the corn issues, so looks like we will be stearing clear of Arabica beans from now on......I also just found out that many coffee companies use flour on their belts that move the coffee, so gluten contamination is a common problem with some of them.......if it isn't wheat flour, then they use corn...EEEEKKK!!!
The mission continues to get him into remission.....
Hugs,
C
Finding out that we have not had him SF,CF,GF could explain why the entocort and pred had not helped. We now have removed the offending toothpaste and he is quiting smokeless tobacco also. I have found that coffee grown in Asia and Africa doesn't seem to have the corn issues, so looks like we will be stearing clear of Arabica beans from now on......I also just found out that many coffee companies use flour on their belts that move the coffee, so gluten contamination is a common problem with some of them.......if it isn't wheat flour, then they use corn...EEEEKKK!!!
The mission continues to get him into remission.....
Hugs,
C
