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# Green coffee bean extract helps weight loss
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/green_coffee_extract_helps_weight_loss_0921130802/
- Published: 2013-09-21T21:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:15:46.000Z
- Description: A 2011 review of five trials found green coffee bean extract moderately effective for weight loss, with participants losing an average of 2.47 kg over trials of 4 to 12 weeks, though the authors say firmer conclusions need more research. A second review put chlorogenic acid doses at 81 to 400 mg.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Supplements, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

Saturday Sept 21, 2013 (foodconsumer.org) -- Green coffee extract a review published in 2011 in Gastroenterology Research and Practice suggests that use of green coffee bean extract as a weight loss dietary supplement to help obese people to lose weight seems promising, but more research is needed to make a firm conclusion.

Igho Onakpoya of Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter in Exeter, UK and colleagues reviewed all studies and found green coffee been extract moderately effective in helping weight loss.

Green coffee bean extract is widely used as a weight loss supplement and the authors reviewed five eligible trials and found participants in the trials lost an average of 2.47 kg or 5.5 pounds of body weight ranging from 1 to 8 kg during the trial periods of 4 to 12 weeks.

The authors concluded "the meta-analytic result reveals a significant difference in body weight in GCE (green coffee extract) compared with placebo."

A smilar review including six trials was published here [http://chp.sagepub.com/content/18/4/309.short](http://chp.sagepub.com/content/18/4/309.short?ref=foodconsumer.org)

Rachel Buchanan and Robert Backett, authors of the second review on JEBCAM reports that the dose of chlorogenic acid the main active weight loss ingredient found in green coffee bean extract varied from 81 to 400 mg.

Green coffee bean extract sometimes called green coffee pills may help people who are not severely obese to lose weight in weeks because its weight loss effect seems moderate only. (DL)