Indian scientists have discovered an unusual property of black coffee.
Now you will drink 3 cups of coffee
Indian scientists have discovered an unusual property of black coffee. So the useful piggy bank of this invigorating aromatic drink has replenished.
As it turns out, coffee has antibacterial properties. At the Institute of Dental Sciences in India, scientists conducted a study and collected data from all patients who consumed coffee.
As a result, it turned out that those who drink about three cups of black coffee a day have the least problems with their teeth. But sweeteners, cream and milk completely deprive coffee of its antibacterial properties. At the same time, the authors took into account the frequency of consumption, the brand of coffee, the presence and absence of additives (milk, sugar), as well as nutrition and other habits of patients.
New benefits of caffeine
In addition, as it turned out, caffeine significantly increases the effectiveness of antibiotics. This conclusion was reached by Iranian scientists who studied the effect of antibiotics in combination with caffeine on staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
The effect of treatment was assessed by the lowest concentration of antibiotics at which the growth of microbes was suppressed. After adding caffeine, the effect of the drug on Pseudomonas aeruginosa doubled, and on staphylococcus four times!
Caffeine and a substance close to it, aminophylline, significantly enhanced the effect of another antibiotic, gentamicin, against staphylococcus aureus. The head of the study noted that the data obtained will help in solving the problem of bacterial resistance to drugs.