Coffee Tips

Have Your Keurig® and Your Java Too

Posted May 10
Did you know that 1.2 million Keurig® brewers were sold in the first quarter of 2011?* The attractive and trendy single serve coffee makers and the convenient little K-Cups® that go with them are taking the coffee market by storm. Thanks to the wonders of technology and some nifty accessories out there, now you can brew Asantae Java™ in your Keurig® machine. That’s also great news as you share our delicious Java with potential customers and Affiliates. Check out some of the accessories that are available now for Keurig® and even the Senseo® machines!

My K-Cup® $17.95
This one is actually made by Keurig® and doesn’t require paper filters as the mesh filter cup can be washed and reused. There’s only one Keurig® machine it apparently does not work with.
Find it online and at select retail stores.
 
Perfect Pod EZ Cup $15.99
This is a plastic reusable filter cup. You have to buy the filters separately but they can easily be tossed after brewing with little mess.
You won’t find it any retail stores yet it’s only available online.
 
Solofill Cup $14
This uses a built-in permanent stainless steel micro mesh filter and is compatible with most Keurig machines, but not all.
Available online.
 
Ecopad® for Senseo® $19.99
This is a refillable coffee pad for the classic Senseo®.
Available online.

Find more options on Amazon
 
*According to a press release from its parent company Green Mountain.
Keurig® and Senseo® are registered trademarks. Asantae™ has no affiliation with them or any of the accessories listed above.

Coffee Talk

Interesting Coffee Statistics

Posted March 28
If you're like most people, you love coffee...especially Asantae Java! Check out these interesting statistics about the coffee market.

World coffee consumption is estimated at 110 - 125 million bags per year.

The US is the world's largest consumer of coffee, representing one-third of all coffee exported.

More than half of the US population consumes coffee.

The typical coffee drinker has 3.4 cups of coffee per day. That translates into more than 450,000,000 cups of coffee daily.

Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.

26% of coffee consumptions is done at home, that’s more than what is consumed in cafes, restaurants and bakeries combined.

One pound of ground beans makes about 50 cups of coffee.

28% of daily coffee consumption is done at breakfast time compared to mid morning, lunch, afternoon and in the evening. The biggest time for consumption is breakfast followed by mid afternoon and evening.

91% of men surveyed ages 12 and above as well as 92% of women ages 19 and above said they drank coffee within the last seven days.

Source: Coffee-Statistics.com, 2011

New Java Resources

New Java Web Pages At Your Fingertips

We've created some amazing new Web pages that are now available for you to use in your recruitment efforts. These informative pages provide details on our coffee production and roasting processes that make Java unlike any other coffee in the world! You can find these Web pages in our prospect generator email campaigns, but we've also now made them available for you to share with other people. Just add the names of these pages to the end of your personal Asantae Web address and you're ready to go.

Asantae Java: Soil to Sip
Find out the remarkable lengths we go to bring you the world's most powerful and delicious antioxidant coffee.
username.teamasantae.com/soiltosip

Asantae Java: HealthyRoast
Get the details on our exclusive roasting process.
username.teamasantae.com/healthyroast

A Message From Dr. Lundell

Coffee Can Help Lower Inflammation!

A recent study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition* indicates that coffee consumption helps lower inflammation in overweight/obese postmenopausal women.

Obesity can be detrimental to our physical health. When we take in more food than we need, we create oxidative stress. When we metabolize extra food and try to store it as fat, it creates oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is caused by an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen and our system's ability to detoxify or easily repair the resulting damage leaving us vulnerable to disease.
Lower inflammation leads to a lower risk of heart disease. Obesity can cause an increase in inflammation and in C-reactive protein levels, the levels of which rise in response to inflammation. As everyone on the Heart Team knows chronic low-grade inflammation is the source of lots of the disorders and diseases that plague modern man. Arteriosclerosis, insulin resistance, diabetes, oxidative stress, stroke, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s, sleep apnea, swollen legs, etc., etc. are all related to chronic inflammation.

The study focused on coffee because it is so widely consumed in Western society. “In the Western world, coffee consumption is ubiquitous and represents the only liquid, other than water, that is consumed almost everyday by a majority of adults (Storey et al 2006). Coffee consumption has been associated with a decreased risk of type 2 diabetes, CVD, breast cancer and inflammatory diseases (Andersen et al 2006, Ganmaa et al 2008, Salazar-Martinez et al 2004, van Dam and Feskens 2002).”

Study participants were 344 healthy but sedentary and overweight postmenopausal women with a high BMI index (Body Mass Index is the measure of weight along with height. Higher BMI usually indicates those who are overweight) with a consideration of the effect of hormone replacement therapy. For those women no longer on hormone replacement therapy there was a significant correlation between drinking more than one cup of coffee a day and lowering C-reactive protein levels. As discussed above, lowering your C-reactive protein levels lowers your inflammation levels. In doing so, you help decrease your risk for heart disease, stroke as well as auto-immune diseases and more.

Drinking coffee is good for you and losing weight, even 10% of your body weight is crucial. Watch what you eat, add some exercise, take HeartShot and enjoy your JAVA!

*(Eur J Clin Nutr. 2009 Dec; 63(12):1419-24. Epub 2009 Sep 16.),

Java News

Java Has Up to 6x the Antioxidants

Not all coffees are created equal. That’s because they don’t all have the HealthyRoast™ process to preserve the antioxidant value of coffee beans. Most people use ORAC value to measure the antioxidant level in foods, but we found a new standard for measuring antioxidant strength. Chlorogenic acid (CLA) is the most prevalent antioxidant found in coffee and studies have shown it is absorbed and metabolized by the body. We put Asantae Java up against other gourmet coffee brands to test the total CGA level as well as the total polyphenol level in a third-party independent laboratory test. Results showed that our Java has up to 6x the antioxidants of other coffees! Check out the results.