Posted on 06/27/2009 12:39:28 PM PDT by Schnucki
Coffee could hold the secret to keeping bad breath at bay.
The beans contain compounds that prevent bacteria releasing the gases behind halitosis, research shows.
Pinpointing the key chemicals could lead to coffee 'mints' or pastilles that stop bad breath at the source.
Professor Mel Rosenberg, who has spent two decades studying the diagnosis and treatment of halitosis, actually set out to investigate why coffee causes bad breath.
But his work at Israel's Tel Aviv University showed that while it may cause problems in our mouths, it has quite the opposite effect in the test tube.
Adding black coffee to 'soups' of bacteria-filled saliva blocked the release of gases that cause breath to smell. In some cases, the amount of gas was cut by up to 90 per cent.
The researcher said: ' We expected that coffee would cause bad breath but there is something inside this magic brew that has the opposite effect.'
The professor, a microbiologist and inventor of the Dentyl range of mouthwash, now hopes to isolate the bug-busting chemical.
He still believes coffee has a negative effect on breath which could be caused by milk fermenting in the mouth or drying it out.
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two decades studying the diagnosis and treatment of halitosis, actually set out to investigate why coffee causes bad breath.
Bummer , Dude!
I'm calling total BS on this one.
Well, it IS the Daily Mail. ;)
May I recommend Darksheare Coffee?
“WARNING - Not to be taken internally!” - Slings and Arrows
In 12 cup drip percolator pot, fill to 6 cup mark with water.
In filter, put 6 heaping scoops of coffee.
Medium roast works best, just make sure it’s a robust blend.
Found a maxwellhouse ‘medium roast’ that was rather anemic.
Put pinch of salt in filter, about as much as it would take to cover the surface of a dime with one even layer.
This keeps the coffee from tasting burned too quickly, it doesn’t age well brewed this way.
Brew, recirculate if need be, usually not.
Add sugar and dairy creamer.
Creamora and coffeemate are not recommended unless you like the heart racing that Ranger Pudding gives.
That, and the nondairy creamer will give you both a headache and a buzz with the coffee.
I usually put about 8 spoons of sugar in this stuff, it ends up being like Russian Kava, thick and sweet with that bitter overtone to it.
Oh, and I am NOT responsible for seeming demonic possession of the coffeepot, or the coffeepot ending up acting as if it has been damaged.
Be sure NOT to add creamora or coffeemate to the brew, unless you LIKE ranger pudding style heart racing.
When I brew that stuff for myself, I recirculate the stuff to brew a second time, but that’s me for my own personal enjoyment, and it may wreck the coffeepot.
Don’t forget the salt, it’s important to the finished brew.
> I’m calling total BS on this one.
ME too. After a couple cups of coffee my breath smells as bad as a buzzard’s crotch. Worse, even.
The venerable employee of the Lambert Pharmacal Co., makers of Listerine, opened his book of news clippings and said: “It says in the British Lancet that in cases of halitosis . . .”
“What’s halitosis?” interrupted Gerard Lambert, the company’s general manager. “Oh, that is the medical term for bad breath,” said the employee.
Before anyone could say “Listerine,” Lambert “bustled the dear old gentleman out of the room” and soon, with glistening eyes, he was punching out Listerine’s first, fine, fetid halitosis ad. That was in 1922. Ever since, says Lambert in this rousing, readable autobiography, “I have had the fear that my tombstone will bear the inscription, ‘Here lies the body of the Father of Halitosis.’ “
Now...coffee and cigarette breath...the worst ever!!!!
>> two decades studying the diagnosis and treatment of halitosis
How would you like to be this professor’s new grad student research assistant?
SOMEONE has to sniff the data, so to speak.
I won’t ask how you know.
Tell that to my wife.
In the am after my coffee, I get “Eew — you have coffee breath” and a sprish of that Listerine breath stuff.
how sweet is your breath?
How'd you keep their legs apart long enough?
ROFL! Stolen!
That depends on ones definition of (bad breath). Strong coffee breath first thing in the morning is pretty foul...
Fair enough. I stole it m’self...
> How’d you keep their legs apart long enough?
Ever wonder why buzzards fly in circles...?
It loses it's effect however if you add water to it. ; )
Alcohol breath
Wow...three cups of coffee, an onion bagel and a Marlboro...I’ll be catnip to the lads!
Too bad you’re a Mrs., eh?
Do be careful with that stuff.
It can be... unique.
What we knew all along ping.
I love tea, I have always been a tea drinker. But when I started working a morning shift during the height of allergy season more than several years ago, I was miserable. I became addicted to that morning coffee, just that one big mug - it's antihistamine properties were actually recommended to me by a physician's assistant. And in recent years it's been found also to have anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties - more plusses.
And now fresh breath too! Mmmmmm, coffee.
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