As one of the leading drinks in the world, coffee has been used as a daily drink by millions of billions of people in the world. Are you one of them? What do you usually do with coffee grounds? You’ll surely regret if you’ve been directly abandoning them because they can be used to help you deal with difficult issues in smart and simple ways.
How Coffee Benefits Health?
Coffee has numerous benefits to human health, and you will never be late to know them.
Coffee is the No. 1 source of antioxidants.
Coffee contains more than 20 types of antioxidants including chlorogenic acid, caffeine, caffeic acid, eugenol, tocopherol, isoeugenol, etc. Although coffee doesn’t top the list of substances containing high content of antioxidants, it tops the list of intake efficiency, which is why coffee is regarded as the No. 1 source of antioxidants.
Among all the antioxidants coffee contains, caffeic acid and ferulic acid protect against ultraviolet rays; gamma-tocopherols acid against aging; eugenol against skin cancer. When it comes to either quality or quantity, coffee is an excellent antioxidant.
Coffee boost athletic performance.
The caffeine in coffee boosts aerobic endurance, muscle strength, and muscle endurance. According to a research released by Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, caffeine is effective for enhancing various types of performance when consumed in low-to-moderate doses. For ordinary people with average athletic levels, the athletic performance boosting capability of caffeine reaches by 2% to 6%. Moreover, caffeine has been proved to boost endurance and anti-fatigue ability. It’s also the positive function coffee holds that makes it disapproved by professional sports organizations.
Coffee is friendly to fat burning.
Based on research by University of Granada, drinking a strong coffee half an hour before exercising increases fat-burning. In addition, caffeine is capable of improving energy balance by reducing appetite and increasing basal metabolic rate.
Also, research by University of Nottingham indicates that something like a cup of coffee can have a direct effect on our brown fat functions. It also indicates that coffee boosts heat consumption, bringing forward new resolutions to obesity and diabetes. Based on the experiment in this study, the temperature above the clavicle will dramatically go up after coffee intake so that brown fat starts to generate heat since that contains most brown fat.
Coffee boosts fat burning, leading coffee to work with intermittent fasting because it has no burden to the body even during the fasting phase.
Coffee reduces the risk of numerous diseases.
Coffee intake is beneficial to reduce the risks of skin cancer, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, liver cancer, and carcinoma of the gallbladder. Moreover, caffeine intake is also beneficial to reduce the risk of some nervous system diseases such as Parkinson’s disease. It also cuts down the risk of depression and suicide.
How to Smartly Use Coffee Grounds?
Coffee grounds come from brewed coffee, and you can use them in the following ways.
Use Coffee Grounds as Fertilizer
Coffee grounds contain key nutrients beneficial for plant growth, like nitrogen, calcium, potassium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, and chromium
How-to Guide:
Just scatter fresh coffee grounds onto the soil around the plants you want to fertilize.
Use Coffee Grounds as Bug Repellent or Flea-Removal Product
The caffeine and diterpenes in coffee repel insects and pests like mosquitos, fruit flies, and beetles. Wherever you want to protect against bugs, just scatter some coffee grounds around the place. Moreover, coffee grounds also play a role as a flea-removal product since fleas are nervous about coffee flavor.
How-to Guide:
To use coffee grounds as a flea-removal product, simply rub them throughout your pet’s fur after shampooing and then rinse them off to dry your pet as usual.
Use Coffee Grounds as Deodorant
Coffee grounds are able to absorb and eliminate odors and to remove the smell of garlic or onions after cooking.
How-to Guide:
Collect coffee grounds into a box or bag and place it in any place you want to eliminate the odor like car, bedroom, fridge, or even your shoes. Optimally, coffee grounds are dried first before being packed.
To eliminate the bad smell from your hand, mix some coffee grounds with a bit of water in your hands and wash your hands as usual.
Use Coffee Grounds as Cleanser
The coarse texture of coffee grounds makes them ideal for scrubbing hard-to-clean kitchen utensils. If your medical cleanser doesn’t work, use coffee grounds instead to polish your cookware or grill.
How-to Guide:
Scatter coffee grounds on all the ware or pots you want to clean and clean them with water.
Use Coffee Grounds as Exfoliating Agent
Coffee grounds can also help remove dead cells from the skin due to their coarse texture. In addition, coffee grounds help to boost the blood flow under the skin and decompose fat accumulated in arms or legs, which always occurs in women.
How-to Guide:
Mix some coffee grounds with water or coconut oil or honey and scrub them on your face, elbow, or legs.
Use Coffee Grounds as a Natural Dye
It’s not difficult to notice the dying function of coffee. Therefore, coffee grounds can be used as a natural dye to color something in brown. Nowadays, it’s mostly used to dye hair because it’s so natural without any negative effect on human health, which is totally different from chemical dyes that are risky to cancer.
Use Coffee Grounds to Cook
The flavor of coffee grounds can play an active in contributing to cooking. Coffee grounds are beneficial to make the meat soft so that it’ll have a good taste.
How-to Guide:
You can daub coffee grounds on steak or meat two hours before cooking or bury meat in coffee water for 24 hours.
Use Coffee Grounds to Grow Your Hair
As is aforementioned, coffee grounds can remove dead cells from your skin. Similarly, they boost your hair to grow because coffee grounds boost your blood flow.
How-to Guide:
After washing your hair with shampoo, use coffee grounds on your hair and massage for a couple of minutes, and then rinse them off.
Use Coffee Grounds to Repair Scratches on Furniture
It’s quite easy to let wood furniture get scratches on the surface and it’s equivalently difficult to make for them. Although numerous types of products removing scratches are available, coffee grounds are still worth trying because of their natural features and easiness to get.
How-to Guide:
First, mix coffee grounds with some water.
Then, dip the mixture to smear on the scratches and wait for 5 to 10 minutes before wiping with a cotton cloth.
Such operations can be repeatedly done until the scratch color has become the same as the surroundings on the furniture. As such, coffee grounds can dye the scratches so as to hide them.
Use Coffee Grounds as Eye Cream
Do you know coffee grounds can be used as an eye cream? Are your eyes suffering from issues like dark circles or eye dropsy? Coffee grounds can help because the high content of antioxidants and caffeine in coffee protects against aging and reduces dark circles.
How-to Guide:
Mix some coffee grounds with water or coconut oil and smear it under your eyes to wait for 10 minutes before cleaning.
How to Drink Coffee to Maximize Its Features?
What type of coffee is the best?
Although coffee has so many benefits to health, the right type should be selected. Instant coffee should be avoided because it covers large amounts of artificial trans fatty acids, sugar, and additives all of which lead you to easily gain weight. Moreover, all the additives are also bad for your health because they possibly arouse diabetes or heart diseases.
Black coffee is regarded as optimal since it contains nothing but fresh coffee. Besides, drip coffee or bulletproof coffee is also friendly to intermittent fasting.
Do you drink coffee at right time?
People love coffee at a different time of the day, and some love a cup in the morning while some after lunch. To achieve the best performance on weight loss, it’s strongly recommended that you should drink coffee before sports or workouts since it boosts your fat to effectively and efficiently burn.
Normally speaking, coffee leads to a higher capability to oxidize fat in the afternoon than in the morning but if coffee stops you from a sound sleep at night, it should not be consumed too late in the evening.
Not everyone is fit for coffee.
Those belonging to the following cases shouldn’t drink coffee:
- Osteoporosis patients
- Those with bad stomachs
- Pregnant people
- Kids
How much coffee should be consumed a day?
Generally speaking, at most 4 cups of coffee can be consumed a day and the amount should be reduced if coffee arouses the heart’s quickly beating.
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