A Metabolomic Study of Biomarkers of Habitual Coffee Intake in Four European Countries

Joseph A Rothwell, Pekka Keski-Rahkonen, Nivonirina Robinot, Nada Assi, Corinne Casagrande, Mazda Jenab, Pietro Ferrari, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Yahya Mahamat-Saleh, Francesca Romana Mancini, Heiner Boeing, Verena Katzke, Tilman Kühn, Katerina Niforou, Antonia Trichopoulou, Elisavet Valanou, Vittorio Krogh, Amalia Mattiello, Domenico Palli, Carlotta SacerdoteRosario Tumino, Augustin Scalbert

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Abstract

SCOPE: The goal of this work is to identify circulating biomarkers of habitual coffee intake using a metabolomic approach, and to investigate their associations with coffee intake in four European countries.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Untargeted mass spectrometry-based metabolic profiling is performed on serum samples from 451 participants of the European Prospective Investigation on Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) originating from France, Germany, Greece, and Italy. Eleven coffee metabolites are found to be associated with self-reported habitual coffee intake, including eight more strongly correlated (r = 0.25-0.51, p < 10E-07 ). Trigonelline shows the highest correlation, followed by caffeine, two caffeine metabolites (paraxanthine and 5-Acetylamino-6-amino-3-methyluracil), quinic acid, and three compounds derived from coffee roasting (cyclo(prolyl-valyl), cyclo(isoleucyl-prolyl), cyclo(leucyl-prolyl), and pyrocatechol sulfate). Differences in the magnitude of correlations are observed between countries, with trigonelline most highly correlated with coffee intake in France and Germany, quinic acid in Greece, and cyclo(isoleucyl-prolyl) in Italy.

CONCLUSION: Several biomarkers of habitual coffee intake are identified. No unique biomarker is found to be optimal for all tested populations. Instead, optimal biomarkers are shown to depend on the population and on the type of coffee consumed. These biomarkers should help to further explore the role of coffee in disease risk.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1900659
JournalMolecular Nutrition & Food Research
Volume63
Issue number22
Early online date04 Sept 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2019

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