Brewing optimal coffee

Life Cycle Assessment of coffee consumption: comparison of single-serve coffee and bulk coffee brewing

Occurrence of furan in coffee from Spanish market: Contribution of brewing and roasting.

In this work, we evaluated the occurrence of furan in brews obtained from regular, decaffeinated, and instant coffee and commercial packed capsules. For this purpose, a previously developed automated headspace solid-phase microextraction method coupled to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS) was used. Initially, the influence of HS-SPME conditions on furan formation was evaluate...

Coffee and cholesterol: is it all in the brewing? The Tromsø Study.

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Celiac Disease, Beer and Brewing

Celiac disease, also called celiac sprue, is an auto-immune disease in which a reaction to a sequence of amino acids in prolamins, especially gliadin of wheat gluten, causes deformation of absorptive villae of the small intestine. As a result, nutrients are poorly absorbed. Children fail to thrive and, in the adult-onset form of the disease, intense intestinal distress is a characteristic, with...

The Continuous Brewing of Beer

Brewing has been mentioned in history as early as Egyptian times and has continued on to the present day with relatively few changes to the basic recipe. Malted barley is the main ingredient, which, when milled and heated in water to extract its nutrients, provides a nourishing sugarand protein-rich solution named wort (pronounced wert), an ideal medium in which yeast may grow and ferment. In c...