Natural Compound in Rice and Coffee May Protect Against Heart Attacks

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Review the link below.

https://scitechdaily.com/natural-compound-in-rice-and-coffee-may-protect-against-heart-attacks/

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#2

Any study that promotes coffee or chocolate is a good study.

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A research team led by Dr. Kento Yoshioka, Dr. Keisuke Obara, and Professor Yoshio Tanaka from the Department of Chemical Pharmacology at Toho University’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences has discovered that ferulic acid, a natural compound found in rice, coffee, and certain vegetables, can help prevent these spasms through two separate mechanisms.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772632022000514#:~:text=Whole%20grains%2C%20spinach%2C%20parsley%2C,lingers%20in%20the%20blood%20longer.

S.no. Source Ferulic acid (mg/0.1kg)
1 Soyabean 12
2 Peanut 8.7
3 Spinach/frozen 7.4
4 Chinese cabbage 1.4
5 Green bean/fresh 1.2
6 Orange 9.2-9.9
7 Banana 5.4
8 Apples 0.27-0.85
9 Popcorn 313
10 **Whole grain rye bread 54
11 **Pickled red beet 39**
12 Rice, brown, long-grain parboiled 24
13 Coffee 9.1–14.3
14 Pasta 12
15 White wheat bread 8.2
16 Red cabbages 6.3–6.5
17 Grapefruit 10.7–11.6
18 Broccoli 4.1
19 Carrot 1.2–2.8
20 Sweet corn 42
21** Bamboo shoots 243.6**
22 Tomato 0.29–6
23 Avocado 1.1
24 Berries 0.25–2.7
25 Water dropwort 703-34

You get more from whole grain rye bread or bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots are tasteless like artichokes. So the Western palate may opt for rye bread, or pickled red beets.

Oops. I missed popcorn.

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That’s 100g of popcorn - that is a lot. And it’s almost 400 calories (plain, unbuttered), what are you dropping from your diet to accommodate such a mass, and is it worth the relative poor nutritional profile compared to whatever it is you’re replacing. Is this something to consume daily or near daily? Doesn’t seem very realistic, though YMMV, of course. That’s the problem with pursuing single molecules in food.

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Ferulic acid had been studied for its effects on health and growth in chicken broilers and piglets. In my book, effects seen in such studies is easier to translate to humans.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/ferulic-acid-and-chicken-_3xy7z8fQuK3wTzueCMJ7A#0

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The measurements are 100 grams for all. Nutrient content of food is almost always quoted in mg per 100 g. So between ten grams of coffee, and one slice of rye bread, you get more ferulic acid from rye bread. Same with popcorn.

I would take both coffee and Amish purple corn popcorn. Will switch to rye bread too. It also helps with blood sugar.

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Yes, of course. But the problem with using 100g for everything is that this is not realistic in most diets. It’s like they show how some spice or other has the highest this or that in 100g, but who consumes 100g of oregano in a sitting? I can appreciate the percentage constant of using 100g as a baseline, but what happens in real life is that you end up eating 200g of, say salmon, and even though you are getting much less of X per 100g, you end up getting more of X from salmon in the diet than from a spice that has 10 times the amount of X compared to salmon, but you only consume 0.5g of it in a sitting, so you end up with a fraction of the X.

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Ferulic acid is also studied in pigs. It is a much shorter way from pigs to humans than from worms to humans. The signal that comes from Ferulic acid’s effects on pigs is stronger and more interesting than many signals coming from research done on worms. .

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/ferlic-acid-and-piglets-eMBJQGHLR_OTY0Qad76nLw#1