Can I eat coffee beans instead of drinking coffee?

Answer 1

Yes, you can make coffee from coffee beans. But the beans first have to be roasted, then ground. The ground coffee used throughout the United States comes from such beans, after both roasting and grinding them.

Answer 2

You certainly can. Anecdotally, there are plenty of stories: Monks used to do it before long prayer sessions, African tribesmen used to do it before going out on a long hunt. Keep in mind that a couple dozen beans is all you use for a single cup, and you're getting it in its pure form -- 100% vs. what's not pulled out as the water passes through -- So it packs a punch. Some people seem to have more resistance to the caffeine. Some less. Probably depends on how much of a coffee drinker you are. For some people, just chewing six or seven roasted coffee beans really well and swallowing, is enough to get them wired and speed up the heart beat. Other people can handle more then that. The Bulk Barn sells Chocolate Covered Roasted Coffee Beans (delicious) and some find that having very many chocolate covered coffee beans (twelve to sixteen.. way too much ) and chewing them well and swallowing wires them up more than just drinking three cups of coffee. Use in moderation. Don't just eat them like candy. It would not be recommended for anyone with a heart condition.

Eating unroasted coffee beans has some health benefits. For example, the chlorogenic acids and other phytochemicals in unroasted coffee beans will prevent cancer and cause weight loss much better than drinking coffee in normal ways. However, Urgert and Katan did a scientific study in 1996 concerning the cafestol and kahweol in both unroasted and roasted coffee beans, which will very substantially raise the blood levels of bad cholesterol and total cholesterol in humans but for some reason, not in any animals. Drinking coffee in normal ways will not increase or decrease blood cholesterol levels in humans.

Interesting Update Regarding Caffeine:

Scientific studies indicate that the health benefits from the regular consumption of caffeine from the drinking of coffee or green tea appear to far exceed the harm from the jitters. A cup of coffee contains about four times more caffeine than a cup of green tea. When real populations of real people were studied, green tea drinkers had a substantially lower risk of developing Parkinson's Disease. At first, the researchers suspected that the tannin-like polyphenol antioxidants called, catechins, in green tea were responsible for this health benefit. However, researchers later deduced that it must have been the caffeine in green tea and not the antioxidants in green tea that was responsible. The reason is that the coffee drinkers in real populations of real people had an even lower risk of developing Parkinson's Disease than the green tea drinkers. The antioxidants in coffee or black tea are only one-tenth as potent as the antioxidants in green tea.

Answer 3

No, unless you eat A LOT of them (just like anything else, really). People routinely do eat them in chocolate covered espresso (coffee) beans. They just contain a lot of caffeine.

Answer 4

There is no such thing as espresso beans. Espresso is made from coffee beans.

Coffee beans can be eaten.

Answer 5

No must be ground in grinder