Relationship Between Coffee Drinking and Reduction of Mental Stress in Young Women

• YAMATO Takako

  Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Nutritional Sciences, Nakamura Gakuen University

• AOMINE Masahiro

  Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Nutritional Sciences, Nakamura Gakuen University

• KOGA Tamiho

  Department of Food and Nutrition Sciences, Nakamura Gakuen University and Junior College

• OHTA Hideaki

  Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Nutritional Sciences, Nakamura Gakuen University

Abstract

The relationship between ingestion of coffee and reduction of mental stress was investigated in 256 young Japanese women. Among the 68% of subjects whose questionnaire responses indicated that they liked coffee, 68% indicated they feel relaxed when they drink coffee. In an organoleptic test, coffee extracted at 80°C exhibited a greater relaxation effect than coffee extracted at 65 or 95°C. This effect showed a significant negative relationship to sourness, suggesting that the relative lack of sourness enhances feelings of relaxation. Coffee drinking also decreased experimentally-induced mental stress evaluated by chromogranin A concentrations.

Journal

• Food Science and Technology Research

  Food Science and Technology Research 11 (4), 395-399, 2005

  Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology

Keywords

• coffee
• relaxation
• mental stress
• questionnaire
• young women

Details

• CRID: 1390282679430829440
• NII Article ID: 10018084746
• NII Book ID: AA11320122
• DOI: 10.3136/fstr.11.395
• ISSN: 18813984
• ISSN: 13446606
• Text Lang: en
• Data Source:
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  • CiNii Articles
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