Organic Dark(ish) Roast
In March we doubled our bag sizes to 450g to halve our packaging and halve our carbon footprint as part of our commitment to sustainability. But per 100g, it's the same price as other speciality, organic coffees despite all our lab testing.
Description
The same healthy, clean, organic coffee as our House Roast, but roasted slightly darker for a smoother, more chocolatey tasting cup!
Our co-founder, Kirsty's favourite.
Our House Roast is lighter, and more fruity, whereas the Dark(ish) is perfect if you prefer a bolder tasting coffee with a smooth, syrupy body.
If you drink it with milk also choose this as the flavour competes better with the milk and shines through.
Perfect for Bulletproof Coffee (also known as Butter Coffee or Keto Coffee). Roasted in Brixton, London. Mycotoxin free and high in polyphenols.
Dark roasting coffee loses up to 90% of its healthiest compounds hence why we only roasted ours dark(ish) to keep them locked in!
If you're used to drinking stale supermarket coffee, brace yourself, this will rock your world!
- Soil Association Organic
- Single Origin
- Fair Trade Certified
- Speciality Grade
- Fully Traceable
- 100% Arabica
- Independently lab tested
- Mycotoxin, mould, pesticide and heavy metal free
- High in polyphenols
🌱 Plastic Free & Compostable Packaging
🚀 Next day UK delivery, 6 days a week, 4pm cut-off, fully tracked!
Subscription benefits
Subscribers get:
- 10% off site-wide for life!
- Free UK delivery worth £3.48.
- Tracked, next day delivery
- An account to manage your subscription.
- Cancel anytime within a few clicks.
- Easily amend the frequency, coffee, grind size etc.
- Get notified 3 days before your subscription renews via email (so you can change or delay delivery).
Benefits include:
- Special rates on product launches
- Exclusive invite to our live Coffee Club over zoom where industry experts teach everything from brew guides to how to use coffee for health optimisation!
Shipping, Returns & Guarantee
🚀 Order before 5pm for same day dispatch.
UK:
- Next day delivery by courier Mon-Sat
- Fully tracked
- Free delivery on subscriptions
- Over £35 is free shipping
- £3.48 shipping on non-subscription orders
*Next day delivery isn't 100% guaranteed as it's in the courier's hands. But we try.
International:
- Rates vary as calculated at checkout
- Taxes and duties paid upfront in Europe for fast delivery
- Fully tracked
We can offer both subscription and non-subscription orders internationally
Packaging:
Our coffee is sent in compostable, plastic-free packaging!
30-day money-back guarantee:
We are proud of our products, and we hope you love them as much as we do! So we offer a 30-day money back guarantee on all coffee.
Ingredients
450g of speciality grade, 100% Arabica, single origin, organic coffee.
We don't add anything else to make it healthy... because nothing else is needed!
Choosing a grind size
Wholebean - Choose this if you have your own grinder.
Fine Ground - Choose this for espresso machines.
Medium Ground - Choose this for everything else, including cafetiere, AeroPress, dripper, Moka pot etc..
NOTE: this is not instant coffee. It's real, fresh roasted, life-affirming coffee and so you will need to brew it in something like a cafetiere, filter, AeroPress etc.
For max health benefits drink 2 to 3 cups of regular or decaf a day.
The healthiest healthy swap you can make
The best healthy swaps are the ones that are the most sustainable long term.
Simply switching your coffee to Exhale can have a tangible impact on your long term health and is one of the simplest and healthiest swaps you can make!
Benefits of daily use
Why Dr Rupy drinks Exhale
Taste to live for
Grown with love at high altitudes on the volcanic soils of speciality grade coffee plantations. Then fresh roasted in small batches weekly in London.
Founded by Al, a speciality coffee geek (READ: bore) on a mission to find the healthiest, most sustainable coffee on the planet... that tatsed so delicious he could drink it every single day for the rest of his life.
He thinks he found it. Try it and judge for yourself!
Try Dark(ish)Dark, but not too dark
Belen, Inza
Cauca, Colombia
Washed Organic
Move over blueberries
We sent a bag of our coffee and a cafetiere to Knight Scientific Lab to test its antioxidant power. The results blew our minds! (published here)
1 single brewed cup of Exhale Healthy Coffee has the same antioxidants as:
600
Blueberries
55
Oranges
1.2kg
Kale
Optimal health for peak performance
Whether you're a high flying athlete 😉, or a regular human like the rest of us, most of us drink coffee to stay on our A-game.
Exhale coffee is expertly crafted to help you go after it day after day after day... whatever your 'it' is.
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Sweet FAQs
How much coffee should I drink for maximum health benefits?
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. They're from the same farm so mix well together. Or go for our decaf.
How will Exhale make me feel?
Rather than answer this ourselves here are what other customers feel after drinking Exhale (all verified Trust Pilot reviews):
“I’m so alert and stable for the entire day, compared to a normal coffee which spikes before shortly plummeting. Exhale are game changers.”- Amanda Evans, 19th Dec 2022.
“I'm in love. No blood sugar crashes, no IBS stuff. Just focus and energy”. - Magdalena M, 6th Feb 2023.
“I am a coffee snob and this is simply delicious!” – Vicki, 4th Feb 2023.
“As a life long IBS sufferer who has struggled with coffee exacerbating symptoms I can honestly say that Exhale has been only beneficial for my gut health, my IBS is gone!” – HannaP, 13th Dec 2022.
“Really have noticed the difference in my alertness since using Exhale” – danielmensah, 31st Jan 2023.
“I can honestly say, my one cup of exhale mid morning is one of the highlights of my day, it is simply happiness in a mug!” – L F Wates, 18th Jan 2023.
“The flavour of Exhales organic house roast is exquisite. I'm not even going to try and describe the taste sensation, it just needs to be experienced.” – Jane, 3rd Jan 2023.
“if you are on the fence about buying and looking at reviews to see if you should, then this review is to tell you that YOU SHOULD! And if this review doesn't do it for you then just head over and talk to Exhale Coffee their humility and kindness will definitely sway it for you. :)” - John Brotherton, 11 Nov 2022.
How flexible are your subscriptions?
It's the most flexible subscription that exists!
If you subscribe you'll be able to head back to our website anytime and at the click of a button you can:
❤️ Change your coffee variety
❤️ Push back your next delivery date
❤️ Skip a delivery
❤️ Cancel your subscription
❤️ Change your delivery address
❤️ Add in an extra bag at a discount!
And more!!
What benefits are there to subscribing?
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If you subscribe you get free UK shipping and our healthy coffee will be delivered whenever suits you, direct to your door...
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in our fully compostable and plastic free packaging.
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You'll also be invited to our coffee club, exclusively for subscribers, where you can learn live from industry experts how to master your home barista game!
Is it instant coffee?
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.
Is Exhale coffee mould and mycotoxin free?
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.
How can coffee be healthy?
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.
Do you add anything to Exhale coffee to make it healthy?
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. 😁
Can I get health benefits from all coffees?
Yes you can, but multiple studies show the quantity of the healthiest compounds vary immensely from coffee to coffee.
In 2014 one study tested 104 espressos from cafes in Scotland, Italy and Spain and found a 31 fold difference between the highest and lowest concentrations of coffee's healthiest compound!
Coffee makes me anxious / jittery, will Exhale be better?
It should... One study shows that polyphenols counteract the negative effects of caffeine, reducing anxiousness. So a high polyphenol coffee like Exhale should reduce the jittery effects from caffeine.
This has been confirmed by lots of our customers who have reported this (just search for jitters or anxious in our Trust Pilot reviews).
However, everyone is unique so it’s impossible to say for certain how you will react. And if you're really worried then we also do a cracking decaf.
I’d love to know how you get on so please drop me an email on alex@exhalecoffee.com if you do try it.
Will Exhale coffee make me perform better?
Yes. It's true.
Caffeine is one of the few scientifically proven 'ergogenic aids to performance'. Meaning it will help you preform better, on average 11-12% better according to 2x meta-analyses!
However, unlike other coffees, Exhale coffee is also high in polyphenols which studies have shown can improve both sprint and endurance performance.
So in Exhale coffee the caffeine and polyphenols work synergistically to give you a double performance boost! Win win!!
For more, read our blog on how to use coffee to set a new PB.
Is decaf as healthy?
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.
Is it suitable for Bulletproof Coffee
Also known as 'Butter Coffee' or 'Keto Coffee', Bulletproof coffee is a popular way of drinking coffee blending it with ghee/butter and MCT Oil.
To be suitable, coffee should be independently lab tested mycotoxin free and ideally high in polyphenols making Exhale the perfect choice.
Our Dark(ish) roast works best so get yours today!
Is Exhale coffee as healthy for the planet as it is for people?
We try our best to make sure it is.
Health, taste AND sustainability were genuinely equally prioritised at every stage of our process. Whcih 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.
Is your packaging environmentally friendly?
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!
Frequently bought with (save 15%)
Save 15% on any merch when you buy with any 450g bag of coffee (on subscription or non-subscription).
Add to cart then use code BUNDLE15 at checkout.
Double the coffee, half the waste
The cost of living crisis is affecting small business as much as consumers. Faced with having to put up prices to cover escalating costs we looked outside the box and an idea was born.
We put it to the vote and heard from over 2,000 of our subscribers. They were overwhelmingly in favour (>90%)...
So from the 6th of March we only offer double the coffee (450g) in the same sized pouch, for double the price, so no net price increase.
Overnight we halved the packaging used and send half the deliveries so halving our outbound carbon footprint. This means no net price increase for you, but a huge win for the environment. And for us, we made cost savings needed instead of putting our prices up.
For more info email Laura on hey@exhalecoffee.com
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