The caffeine in healthy organic coffee wakes you up, reduces your risk of depression, improves athletic performance, increases sexual appetite in women and enhances sexual performance in men. Organic coffee antioxidants help reduce the risk of type II diabetes and several kinds of cancer. Now, it turns out that there are vitamins in coffee as well.

Vitamins in Coffee

Vitamins in Coffee

Here are the vitamins and minerals that you get with an eight ounce cup of coffee. These are in terms of RDA. RDA stands for recommended daily allowance.

Thiamine (Vitamin B1) 2%
Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) 11%
Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5) 6%
Folic Acid (Vitamin B9) 1%
Magnesium 2%
Manganese 3%
Niacin (B3) 2%
Phosphorus 1%
Potassium 3%

Assuming that you drink more than one eight ounce cup of coffee a day you can multiply the percent of RDA per cup by the number of cups to get the total RDA of vitamins in coffee that you receive every day.

What These Vitamins and Minerals Do For You

Thiamine: As a co-enzyme that is involved in complete carbohydrate, protein and fat breakdown for energy. Chemical reaction pathways in our mitochondria allow for electrons to be removed from involved molecules and they are carried to electron transport chains found in the mitochondria membrane. The carriers are niacin and riboflavin based blueprints and constructing proteins.

Riboflavin: Vitamin B2, also called riboflavin, is one of 8 B vitamins. All B vitamins help the body to convert food (carbohydrates) into fuel (glucose), which is “burned” to produce energy. These B vitamins, often referred to as B complex vitamins, also help the body metabolize fats and protein. B complex vitamins are necessary for healthy skin, hair, eyes, and liver. They also help the nervous system function properly. In addition to producing energy for the body, riboflavin also works as an antioxidant by fighting damaging particles in the body known as free radicals.

Pantothenic Acid: In addition to playing a role in the breakdown of fats and carbohydrates for energy, vitamin B5 is critical to the manufacture of red blood cells, as well as sex and stress-related hormones produced in the adrenal glands, small glands that sit atop the kidneys. Vitamin B5 is also important in maintaining a healthy digestive tract, and it helps the body use other vitamins, particularly B2 or riboflavin. Your body needs pantothenic acid to synthesize cholesterol.

Folic Acid: Folic acid is used for preventing and treating low blood levels of folate (folate deficiency), as well as its complications, including “tired blood” (anemia) and the inability of the bowel to absorb nutrients properly. Folic acid is also used for other conditions commonly associated with folate deficiency, including ulcerative colitis, liver disease, alcoholism, and kidney dialysis. Women who are pregnant or might become pregnant take folic acid to prevent miscarriage and “neural tube defects,” birth defects such as spina bifida that occur when the fetus’s spine and back do not close during development.

As you can see there are good vitamins in coffee in addition to the many other healthy features that coffee offers.