I drink up to 6 cups of coffee per day, prepared using a paper filter and V60 dripper. However, I recently started using my french press more and have also been getting espressos when I’m in a hurry.
I read that the latter methods don’t filter out the coffee oils (obviously) like paper towels do and that these oils can negatively impact LDL levels.
These oils also taste pretty good imo. Espressos would probably taste awful without them.
So, do you think there’s a reason to be concerned here and would it be best to limit my consumption of unfiltered coffee?
Difficult to say much here without having a blood lipid panel, to see how you respond to this level of consumption.
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I see, so would you say it’s safer to drink paper filtered coffee then?
On average, I would say that drinking more of your coffee in filtered form compared with unfiltered would be preferable from the standpoint of blood lipids & cardiovascular risk.
However, 1) this is a relatively small effect on average, and 2) with the range in individual response, you may not be affected by it at all.
This is why I wouldn’t say anything specific to you as an individual without data, as well as knowledge of your baseline cardiovascular risk to determine how much this is even worth caring about at all. For a very low-risk person, this may not even be worth concerning yourself with. For someone with elevated blood lipids or high cardiovascular risk, I would tackle all of the other variables described here and here before even talking about coffee filtering.