The work with the components of the coffee carried through for the Institute of Chemistry of the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro [UFRJ], that it identified the nutricionais properties of the drink, also was awardee for the CeCafé. The research disclosed that, in reason of its components, the coffee can make very well to the health.

The scientific community already considers the coffee a nutricional and pharmaceutical food. Beyond the caffeine, the product is formed by many other components, or so more important, as you leave minerals [3 5%], sugars [35 55%], lipídios [10 20%], amino acids [2%] and niacina or Vitamin PP [0.5%], and druggists, as the proper caffeine [1 2.5%] and acid clorogênicos [7 9%].

In accordance with research carried through in Brazil, United States, Europe and Japan, the consumption of up to five xícaras of coffee per day contributes in the prevention of some illnesses, as the cancer of cólon, diabetes, the illness of Parkinson and the evil of Alzheimer. This because it possesss antirust properties and protects the neurons.

The pharmaceutical use of the coffee - that is, in the medicine composition - already comes being studied against psychic disfunções and must become reality in in the maximum five years. Into the process of torra of the coffee, the acid clorogênicos are changedded into quinídeos, that act in the central nervous system, modulating the state of mood and the mechanism of gratuity, helping to prevent the depression occurrence [illness that affects about 20% of the world-wide population, according to World-wide Organization of the Health] and its consequences. Moreover, it helps to prevent cardiac illnesses.