喝咖啡前要知道的10件事

1. Caffeine Can Kill You
But you'd have to drink 80 to 100 cups in a hurry, health experts say. We advise not trying.
1.咖啡可以使你斃命。當然，根據專家的說法，這可能發生在你迅速喝下了80到100杯咖啡之後。對此，我們不建議你進行嘗試。

2. Coffee Can Be Good For You
A study shows that Americans get most of their antioxidants from their daily fix of java. One to two cups a day appear to be beneficial. Or, if you don't like coffee, try black tea, the second most consumed antioxidant source. Bananas, dry beans, and corn wrap up the top five.
2.咖啡可以對你有益。研究表明，美國人獲取的大部分抗氧化成分來自於其每天固定的爪哇咖啡。1到2杯咖啡就很有效。如果你不喜歡咖啡，也可以嘗試下紅茶——一種含抗氧化成分僅次於咖啡的飲品。除此之外，香蕉、乾果和玉米依次爲位列前五位的富含抗氧化成分的食品。

3. Caffeine Might Boost Female Sex Drive
It worked on rats anyway. But researchers say in humans, coffee might enhance the sexual experience only among people who are not habitual users.
3.咖啡因可能有助於提升女性性慾。對老鼠而言確實如此。但是，研究人員認爲，咖啡可能僅能改善那些不經常飲用咖啡的人的性體驗。

4. Caffeine Might Cut Pain
Moderate doses of caffeine — the equivalent of two cups of coffee— can cut post-gym muscle pain, a small study found. But the research was done on people who were not regular coffee drinkers.
4.咖啡因能夠止疼。有研究顯示，適量的咖啡因，相當於2杯咖啡的含量，可以減輕健身之後的肌肉痠疼。但是，這一研究結果僅適用那些不經常飲用咖啡的人。

5. Caffeine Can Indeed Keep You Up at Night
Health experts advise avoiding it for 6 hours before bedtime.
5.咖啡因的確有助於你夜晚失眠。健康專家建議臨睡前6個小時內不要飲用咖啡。

6. Decaf Coffee Has Caffeine!
If you drink five to 10 cups of decaffeinated coffee, you could get as much caffeine as from one or two cups of caffeinated coffee, a study found.
6.脫咖啡因咖啡同樣含有咖啡因。研究顯示，飲用5到10杯託咖啡因咖啡所攝取的咖啡因，與飲用1到2杯普通咖啡所攝取的咖啡因相同。

7. Decaffeination Uses Chemicals
Beans are steamed, so that dissolved caffeine rises to the surface, where it is washed off using an organic solvent called methylene chloride.
7.脫咖啡因咖啡使用了化學物品。咖啡豆進行蒸汽壓力後使溶解的咖啡因漂浮於表面，然後使用一種叫做二氯甲烷的有機溶劑將其過濾掉，即成爲脫咖啡因產品。

8. Caffeine Is Not The Bitter Culprit
Caffeine is not the main bitter compound in coffee. Rather, the pungent perpetrators are antioxidants.
8.咖啡因不是苦味源。導致咖啡口感苦的主要因素不是咖啡因，而是抗氧化劑。

9. Great Coffee Depends on Roasting and Brewing
When it comes to great flavor, coffee chemistry boils down to roasting and brewing. During roasting, oil locked inside the beans begins to emerge at around 400 degrees. The more oil, the stronger the flavor. Caffeine content goes up as the water spends more time in contact with the grounds, so regular coffee often has more of it than espresso or cappuccino. Darker roasts also yield more caffeine.
9.濃郁的咖啡取決於烘焙和沖泡的技術。咖啡化學將咖啡的濃郁風味歸功於烘焙和沖泡。當烘焙的溫度高至400度時，咖啡豆內的油脂會流出來。油脂越多，口味越濃郁。咖啡因的含量則與用水量相關。普通咖啡通常比濃縮咖啡或者卡布奇諾所含的咖啡因更高。烘焙的顏色越深也會含有更高的咖啡因。

10. Coffee Was Discovered by Goats
A millennium ago on a mountainside in Africa, a herd of goats kept a shepherd up at night after feasting on red coffee berries. The shepherd took his animals' discovery to some monks, and very long prayer sessions ensued. It's a good story, anyway.
10.咖啡是山羊發現的。一千年以前在非洲的一個半山腰上，一羣山羊吃下了一種紅色的咖啡果子後，在夜裏興奮異常以至於牧羊人不能入睡。牧羊人將這種果子送給傳教士，並被一個相當長的人羣進行傳頌。這實際上只是一個美好的傳說。