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The project entitled "Coffee Prevention: Identifying, Testing and Optimizing the Healthy Properties of Coffee" studies the positive influences of coffee on our well-being. The Hamburg firm of Tchibo GmbH is involved in this project in association with four academic partners from all over Germany. Among other things, the working group is decoding the effective substances of coffee with regard to cell protection, for example chlorogenic acids.

Two studies on humans have reached the following conclusions: The antioxidative cellular resistance of the participants in the studies was considerably higher during the phases in which they drank the test coffee than during the phases in which they did not drink any coffee. This provides fundamental new findings with regard to the antioxidative effects of coffee-based drinks. New products can be developed on the basis of these results.