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Coffee helps fight COVID-19

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July 13, 2021

Add COVID-19 to the list of illnesses that coffee can reportedly help prevent.

A recent study led by Northwestern University researchers indicated consuming at least one cup of coffee per day daily can lower the risk of COVID-19 by 10%, according to a report in theladders.com.

The Northwestern University study, published in Nutrients, examined several foods to determine a correlation between dietary habits and protection from COVID-19. Researchers examined data of 40,000 adults in the U.K. biobank and focused on daily intake of coffee, tea, fruit, vegetables, oily fish, processed meat and red meat.

Researchers at health science company Zoe, the Harvard Medical School and King's College London found that people who eat a high quality, gut-friendly diet are less likely to develop COVID-19 or become severely ill, according to a company press release. Alternatively, they discovered that those eating poorer quality diets are more at risk, especially if they live in a more socioeconomically deprived area.

Researchers analyzed data from nearly 600,000 Zoe COVID study app contributors who completed a survey about the food they ate during February 2020, making it the largest study in this space. People with the highest quality diet were around 10% less likely to develop COVID-19 than those with the lowest quality diet, and 40% less likely to become severely ill.

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