Sometimes referred to as liquid gold, coffee is the most popular source of caffeine in North America (and behind only teas worldwide). Also a source of tons of nutrients, and most recently touted as a source of chlorogenic acid and ferulic acid.
Coffee, black gold, 'poison of choice'. Whatever you call it, it is the world's second most popular non-water beverage (second only to all forms of tea combined) and consumed world-wide.
Coffee can be seen as a nutritional product as it is a mixture of many nutriceutical compounds that all have individual purposes. Coffee can also exert effects like any supplement or drug and rival some of them in potency. It is not just an inert food product, coffee is a supplement.
Coffee is most often used for Energy & Fatigue. The Examine Database covers High Cholesterol, Type 2 Diabetes, and 1 other condition.
In this meta-analysis of 17 cohort studies in participants with diabetes, a higher coffee or tea consumption was associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality.
