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Green Coffee Beans as Nutraceuticals

. Syeda Shazma Kanwal, Nabgha Zafar, Nimra Azhar, Saniya Shuja, Sumaiyya Pervaiz, Sidra Talib & Javeria Javed


Abstract

Introduction

Green coffee beans have nutrients like fats. protein and carbohydrate. It also contains chlorogenic acid, phenols, brown pigments, trigonelline & caffeine. Its brown pigments, chlorogenic acid & phenols are good sources of antioxidants which can prevent chronic diseases like cardiovascular diseases, hepatic diseases, cancer, diabetes, obesity and aging.

Purpose

In this article we determined the processing of green coffee beans, its constituents, pharmacokinetics, specific mechanisms on treating diseases like obesity, oxidative stress, type 2- diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, hepatic disorders, anti-aging effect and some risk effects associated with green coffee bean consumption.

Methods

It is done by literature review by using some keywords like “Green coffee bean”, “nutraceutical”, “and “processing”, “therapeutic effects” and “risk factors” by search engines like Google scholar, Web of science, Scopus and Pub-med.

Results

After reviewing many articles, it was determined that being a Nutraceutical, green coffee beans can prevent and treat oxidative stress and chronic diseases but have some risk factors like liver toxicity, damages to the cells and enzymatic interactions, metabolic reactions and biological response system interference in many patients.

Conclusion

From the literature review we have concluded that green coffee beans consumption  in normalize amount can treats chronic diseases but to minimize side effects, avoid too much consumption of green coffee beans.

 

 

Index Terms- Coffee beans, Nutraceuticals, Pharmacokinetics, Antioxidant, Processing

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