One of the biggest benefits it seems in our morning coffee is a high level of antioxidants; those magical little minerals that help fight everything from cancer to aging, by not allowing oxygen to damage our cells.  There is a great deal of debate concerning the benefit of decaffeinated coffee, but that’s ok with me since I don’t touch the stuff anyway. 
It’s great to know that my cup of gourmet coffee is helping to fight against the onslaught of free radicals since we come up against them in everything we do.  But, I have to say that I think I’d drink it even if there were no health benefits. 

Of course, not all coffees are made equal.  Anyone who is a regular at a good coffee house definitely knows the difference in a fresh cup of gourmet flavored coffee and some sickly sweetened brown water that you get at most convenient marts.  The truth is that there is probably more of a difference than just taste.  It only makes sense that a gourmet coffee that has been handled, processed and roasted with care would maintain more of the healthy goodness then some large scale commercially processed mix of cheap coffee.

I have no science to back this belief up, but I don’t think I need it since the flavor difference is more than enough of a reason to pay the extra few cents to avoid a bad cup of coffee.

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