For teachers and anyone else who reeks of coffee: this helps combat that nasty coffee breath
Teachers who used to stand by your desk and spread an unbearable coffee stench from their mouths while explaining that complicated math problem.. argh! Especially if you don’t drink coffee yourself, it’s absolutely disgusting. For every coffee lover: here’s how to make sure you’re not one of those coffee breath offenders.
The beginning of the end
It’s easy to explain why, after a homemade cappuccino, your mouth suddenly smells like a sewer. Coffee dehydrates your body—or at least the caffeine in it does. This makes fluids leave your body much faster. That immediately explains why you usually need to pee soon after a cup of joe. The dehydration starts in your mouth, resulting in less saliva. Less saliva means more opportunity for bacteria to grow. With little saliva, you also have a much harder time washing away the food remnants from the muffin you wolfed down with your coffee. All the makings of stinky breath.
Prevention is better than smelling bad
To prevent yourself from reeking of coffee like that teacher from the past, it’s essential to keep your saliva levels up. The best way to do that is to drink a glass of water. That way, your saliva can at least wash away those leftover food particles, giving bacteria less chance to grow.
Have breakfast after your coffee!
If you still need to have breakfast, it’s best to do so after drinking your coffee. Yogurt and apples, for example, are perfect coffee-breath fighters. Yogurt is packed with good bacteria that remove the sulfur particles—which also contribute to bad breath—from sulfur-containing drinks (hello, coffee). Apples also contain lots of enzymes that counteract coffee breath. In addition, because you often chew when eating an apple, extra saliva is produced—so it’s a win-win!
PS: to all teachers: nothing but praise!
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