Vileplume
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Hey JenniferHi @Vileplume.Coffee is weird for me, too. It goes right through me and makes me bloated, but it improves my mood and gives me such pleasant dreams. I started drinking black tea this past January and experience the same benefits but without any of the digestive issues so my reaction to coffee doesn’t seem to be due to the caffeine. It can’t be because of mycotoxins since it happens even with mycotoxin-free coffee. I don’t react negatively to brewed cacao so I’m wondering if it has something to do with the processing of the bean after the coffee cherry has gone through the initial fermentation process? I don’t know much about coffee so I just did a quick search to see how the bean is processed and it appears that not all beans are fermented prior to roasting, which makes me wonder if coffee from beans that were fermented might cause less digestive distress for those with sensitive intestines?
How Is Coffee Fermented and How to Make It at Home?
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@Matestube, that’s crazy! Do you know what it is about coffee that has that effect on you?
Reading through some of your previous posts, I saw that coffee gave you bloating like it does for me, and that you’d been getting good results from tea.
What brand of tea do you use? I’d love to still keep drinking caffeinated beverages throughout the day because of how positively they affect my mood and mental function.
That’s very interesting about the fermentation—I wonder also of coffee cherries’ non-uniform ripeness has anything to do with negative effects. Maybe coffee beans from unripe cherries have more toxins than from ripe ones.
