Dr. Joe Schwarcz

If coffee did cause cancer, we would know because there's enough coffee consumed by enough people around the world that this would reveal itself epidemiologically. So here we have a situation where we have known carcinogens present in the coffee, but of course the whole coffee as an entity doesn't cause cancer. Why? Because the amounts of the carcinogens in there are in very, very small doses.

If coffee did cause cancer, we would know because there's enough coffee consumed by enough people around the world that this would reveal itself epidemiologically. So here we have a situation where we have known carcinogens present in the coffee, but of course the whole coffee as an entity doesn't cause cancer. Why? Because the amounts of the carcinogens in there are in very, very small doses.

If coffee did cause cancer, we would know because there's enough coffee consumed by enough people around the world that this would reveal itself epidemiologically. So here we have a situation where we have known carcinogens present in the coffee, but of course the whole coffee as an entity doesn't cause cancer. Why? Because the amounts of the carcinogens in there are in very, very small doses.

And coffee also contains some compounds like antioxidants, which can mitigate cancer.

And coffee also contains some compounds like antioxidants, which can mitigate cancer.

And coffee also contains some compounds like antioxidants, which can mitigate cancer.