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Coffee and Cholestrol.

seeing_ie · 2011-11-27 04:53:10

Without sounding like a Daily Mail article, maybe this is something worth being aware of. "Cafestol, while not your body’s best friend, has one critical weakness. No, it’s not a vitamin supplement or kryptonite. Cafestol’s arch nemesis is…the paper coffee filter. Thanks to physics, cafestol becomes trapped in the filter…

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seeing_ie

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Without sounding like a Daily Mail article, maybe this is something worth being aware of.
"Cafestol, while not your body’s best friend, has one critical weakness. No, it’s not a vitamin supplement or kryptonite. Cafestol’s arch nemesis is…the paper coffee filter. Thanks to physics, cafestol becomes trapped in the filter and doesn’t ride down the brewed liquid into the coffee cup."
Another good reason to get an aeropress maybe, considering I have a high-fat diet and my old сafetière doesn't filter out all the grounds it should.

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#2 27-11-2011 01:07PM

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Alan Adler, the Aeropress inventor, is always on about how the French press is dodgy in terms of cholestrol.

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