First, it provides the alkaline mineral, potassium, which your body uses to neutralize acidity and restore alkaline balance.
Second, the soluble fiber, inulin, which naturally extracts from chicory in every cup of Teeccino, supports a healthy population of beneficial microflora, enhancing your digestion and increasing the bioavailability of minerals. By increasing your daily intake of inulin, you improve your ability to absorb the alkaline minerals calcium, potassium, magnesium, cobalt, and copper that a healthy person needs to maintain the body’s natural alkaline balance.
Many customers are confused when they test brewed Teeccino with a litmus pH strip. Depending on the pH of the water you use to brew with, you’ll get varying pH test results. However, the pH of brewed Teeccino isn’t actually relevant to its alkaline effect in the body.
The alkaline minerals calcium, potassium and magnesium are used by the body to correct metabolic acidity. That’s what makes fruits and vegetables alkaline. Teeccino’s bioavailable potassium, along with the absence of other acids, produces an alkaline effect in the body. Coffee has as many as 100 acids in the brewed liquid, which is why many people have an acid reflux reaction after drinking it.
Alkaline water is made alkaline through the minerals it contains, either naturally like “mineral water” or through added minerals like the alkaline waters available in the marketplace. While brewing with an alkaline water will give you better results on a pH test, what you really want to focus on in order to be alkaline is eating and drinking foods and beverages that are high in alkaline minerals.
Does Teeccino contain acrylamides?
Simply put, you can’t avoid acrylamides if you’re going to eat baked food including toasted bread, baked potatoes, black olives or prunes, or drink roasted beverages like coffee and Teeccino.
Teeccino contains herbs which have been shown to form acrylamides when roasted. We use a dark roast that has lower levels of acrylamides because the longer you roast, the levels of acrylamides drop off. Additionally, we have our chicory roasted in France with a roaster who has specialized in reducing acrylamides to the lowest possible levels. Not all of our herbs are roasted and thus, Teeccino contains less acrylamides compared to other coffee alternatives. Laboratory tests show that Teeccino has about the same amount as coffee.
Additionally, Teeccino contains numerous, water soluble antioxidants such as OPCs (proanthocyananidins) and flavonoids. Antioxidants protect DNA from exposure to free radicals and toxins. We believe that although we eat foods all the time that contain acrylamides and we are exposed to other types of potentially harmful toxins from our environment, diets rich in antioxidants help protect our bodies from the effect of these substances.
If you live in California, a lawsuit about coffee and acrylamides under Prop 65 was finally settled with a determination that coffee does not have to be marketed with the Prop 65 warning. A review of the numerous studies on coffee drinking showed that no studies have proven that drinking coffee causes cancer. Like Teeccino, coffee contains antioxidants that help the body fight free radicals. Furthermore, no studies have yet determined that acrylamides, as they naturally occur in foods and beverages, cause cancer.
Is Teeccino safe for children to drink?
Yes! The ingredients in Teeccino have been in the human diet for thousands of years. Teeccino makes a great caffeine-free and sugar-free hot beverage for children. The whole family can enjoy a pot of Teeccino together!
How can there be 0g of sugar in a brewed cup of Teeccino if the Mediterranean flavors have dates and figs?
Nutrition facts on food and beverage labels are regulated by the FDA. If there is less than 0.5g of a nutrient (e.g. protein, sugars, sodium etc.), the FDA ruling is that this nutrient has to be listed as 0g. Drinking a cup of brewed Teeccino isn’t like eating a date or a fig. The quantity is much smaller and during brewing, just a light sweetness along with caramel flavor from the dates and figs naturally extracts into the brew.
Teeccino’s nutrition data is tested at a 3rd party laboratory. Any natural sugars from dates and figs in a cup of Teeccino tests at less than 0.5g and thus we comply with the FDA and list it as 0g.
