Effects of Coffee and Its Components on the Gastrointestinal Tract and the Brain-Gut Axis.

ABSTRACT: Coffee is one of the most popular beverages consumed worldwide. Roasted coffee is a complex mixture of thousands of bioactive compounds, and some of them have numerous potential health-promoting properties that have been extensively studied in the cardiovascular and central nervous systems, with relatively much less attention given to other body systems, such as the gastrointestinal tract and its particular connection with the brain, known as the brain-gut axis. This narrative review provides an overview of the effect of coffee brew; its by-products; and its components on the gastrointestinal mucosa (mainly involved in permeability, secretion, and proliferation), the neural and non-neural components of the gut wall responsible for its motor function, and the brain-gut axis. Despite in vitr

SUBMITTER: Iriondo-DeHond A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7824117 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature