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If you increase the amount of fruits and vegetables in your diet, you will also lower your blood pressure. Coffee contains caffeine which is a stimulant and can cause your blood vessels to contract and increase your blood pressure. However, this amount is small, and may or may not be significant.
Coffee and Blood Pressure. The effect of coffee on blood pressure appears to be mixed. In non-coffee drinkers, acute exposure to caffeine can increase the blood pressure by up to 10 mm Hg. However, in chronic coffee drinkers, the acute ingestion of caffeine does not appear to raise the blood pressure.