Consumption of Chlorogenic Acids Through Coffee and Health Implications
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beverages Review Consumption of Chlorogenic Acids through Coffee and Health Implications Adriana Farah * and Juliana dePaula Lima Laboratório de Química e Bioatividade de Alimentos e Núcleo de Pesquisa em Café (NUPECAFÉ), Instituto de Nutrição, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Avenida Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CCS, Bl. J, Rio de Janeiro 21941-902, Brazil; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +55-21-39386449 Received: 11 December 2018; Accepted: 15 January 2019; Published: 1 February 2019 Abstract: Chlorogenic acids (CGA) are the main antioxidant compounds in the Western diet, due to their high concentrations in coffee associated with the high consumption of the beverage. Until about 10 years ago, like many other phenolic compounds, CGA were thought to be poorly absorbed in the human digestive system. Along the years, large amounts of information on the absorption and metabolism of these compounds have been unveiled, and today, it is known that, on average, about one third of the consumed CGA from coffee is absorbed in the human gastrointestinal tract, although large inter-individual variation exists. Considering results from in vitro animal and human studies, it is possible to conclude that the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of coffee CGA are responsible for, at least to a certain extent, the association between coffee consumption and lower incidence of various degenerative and non-degenerative diseases, in addition to higher longevity. Keywords: chlorogenic acids; coffee beverages; consumption; health effects 1. Introduction Chlorogenic acids (CGA), esters of trans-hydroxycinnamic acids and quinic acid (Figure1), were discovered in 1837 [1]. They were first thought to be caffetannic acid [2], which was in fact a mixture of different acids. Later, CGA were found to be distinct from tannic acid, the latest only found in green coffee. In 1908, 5-caffeoylquinic acid (5-CQA) or chlorogenic acid, numbered according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recommendations [3], was first isolated from a cristaline potassium–caffeine chlorogenate complex by Gorter [2,4], who discovered that this compound was widely distributed in leaves and seeds of numerous plants [5] including phytotherapeutic ones. But at least until the early 1920s substances in coffee other than caffeine were considered to have no biological effects [6]. In 1950, the term isochlorogenic acid was given to another CGA fraction found in coffee which was purified by Corse et al. [7] in 1965 and came to be the mixture of the three main dicaffeoylquinic acids (diCQA) [8]. By the end of the 60s, the neochlorogenic and cryptochlorogenic acids, corresponding to 3-caffeylquinic (3-CQA) and 4-caffeoylquinic (4-CQA) acids, respectively, according to IUPAC [3] as well as the three main feruloylquinic acids (3-FQA, 4-FQA, and 5-FQA) had already been isolated and identified by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy [8]. In the late 70s and early 80s, the use of liquid chromatography enabled the identification of nine major CGA and other minor compounds in the coffee matrix [8]. From the beginning of the 90s and on, a new field of research laid in the study of CGA antioxidant attributes and their physiological significance stimulated studies with decaffeinated coffee. Discovered and isolated in the 80s [9], quinic acid lactones or quinides formed by dehydration of the quinic acid moiety during roasting (Figure2) also gained physiological importance in the 90s [10–14]. 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