NIXAST ® Organic House Roast

The research is clear - for the maximum health benefits from coffee you should drink 3 to 5 cups a day (or 2 to 3 mugs). Read our article on how much coffee is too much? 1 x 450 bag contains around 30 cups so we recommend 1 bag, per person, per fortnight. Which at £18 bag is still the same as just 5 cups of coffee in a cafe! If you're sensitive to caffeine try mixing our regular coffee and our decaf for a half-caf. Or go for our delicious, water-processed, chemical-free decaf.

No, it needs brewing in something like a cafetiere, AeroPress, espresso machine or dripper etc. It's well worth the effort though because it's healthier and more delicious! Read our article to learn how to brew the perfect coffee. Instant coffee has been linked to some nasty diseases and has 4 times the amount of mould / mycotoxins on average! Read our article reviewing the latest research.

It is indeed. We test every shipment of our coffee at an independent lab for pesticides, mould, yeasts, mycotoxins and heavy metals to verify the coffees absolute purity.
It is then stored in GrainPro ultra-hermetic sealed bags in a temperature controlled environment
Most supermarket bought coffees were roasted and ground months before you buy them leaving them likely to stale and open to contamination. All our coffee is roasted fresh weekly to make sure you're drinking the freshest, cleanest possible brew.
If you want to know more, read our article on why you should avoid mycotoxins and learn how they're a bigger issue than you may think in coffee.

Coffee comes from a fruit and like any other fruit is packed full of naturally healthy compounds. The most beneficial being polyphenols such as chlorogenic acid. Read more on coffee's fruity side in our article.
Through over roasting and poor handling these compounds are often significantly reduced in other coffees. Studies show up to a 31-fold difference between some cups of coffee!
During our unique process we sourced a bean naturally high in the healthiest compounds and roasted in a way that locks in as much of them as possible.
We also keep out the bad and our organic coffee also independently tested to be free from moulds, mycotoxins, pesticides and other nasties.

No we don't, because we don't need to!
A good quality coffee that's been treated right is as healthy as any other 'superfood' on the planet.
There's a modern trend towards taking poor quality ingredients (such as instant coffee, read our blog on that here) and adding whatever the latest fad, on-trend superfood is to make it 'healthy again.
We instead took the care to (obsessively) look after every stage from farm to cup and work with the wonderful things naturally in our coffee already.
It definitely wasn't the easiest option, but it's the best one for you and the planet and that's what matters to us.

Most of the health benefits are the same across the caffeinated and decaf versions, with only a minor magnification of effects in some areas due to the 'entourage effect. So you're still onto a winner with the decaf.
The areas where decaf isn't as protective are broadly:
Liver health. Coffee is very protectiive of the liver. Those effects are more pronounced in regular coffee.
• Cognitive health. Especially age-related cognitive benefits are slightly less pronounced in decaf.
I wouldn't worry though, if you're not a fan of caffeine (or it's not a fan of you!), the decaf is still packed full of antioxidants and polyphenols so is hugely beneficial.

We try our best to make sure it is.
Health, taste AND sustainability were genuinely equally prioritised at every stage of our process. Which was recognised by our B Corp certification.
So technically there could be a healthier coffee out there (shhh!) but perhaps it didn't pay a fair price to the farmer, or was grown with polluting, non-organic pesticides, in which case we wouldn't touch it.

It's as good as currently exists... all our coffee is delivered in compostable, plastic free packaging, and all the paper we use is from FSC Certified renewable sources. The pouch itself is home compostable (you can compost it in your garden) but the valve and zipper are industrially compostable so tear them off and pop in your green waste bin. The world's insatiable thirst for polluting, single use plastic has to stop. And we want to be part of that change. We're always looking for more environmentally friendly ways to package our coffee so please let us know if you have any suggestions!