Your morning coffee could be "meal in a cup"

[Zainab_M]

Normally for men the daily recommended calories are 2,500 and for women 2,000. 

Believe it or not, but our morning cup of coffee can contain almost one-quarter of the calories of our entire day's intake.  Of course, it depends how you prepare your coffee.  A rich creamy coffee could contain approximately 400 calories at least, some more.

The kind of things added to an innocent cupa black coffee that really make it rich are full cream milk, whipped cream, chocolate flakes etc.

Plain black coffee contains minimal calories - below 20.  Next best would be plain black coffee or a frothy cappuccino with just a little milk .. around 25 calories.  But filling the cup with milk, even skimmed milk, makes a huge difference.  A light teaspoon of coffee mixed with a cup full of skimmed milk could have over 70 calories.



Creamy coffee - Rich milk and cream is the reason some cups of
coffee had so many calories


For more information on coffee and coffee-shop snacks, check BBC Health

And how much coffee would be too much -  important read

[Ruhi_Rose]

Pheew!  this is some news.  But I'm not being able to figure it out that well.  I guess one will have to take at least three-quarters of a cup cream and over 2 tea spoonfuls of sugar in one's coffee to make its calorie value shoot up so high.  We sometimes take cream in our coffee, but just about 1 tea spoon with a little milk like shown in the last image of milk pouring into the coffee cup.  And really, one tea spoon of cream in a cup of coffee tastes quite enough.  I wonder how much calorie would be in a teaspoon of cream.  I'm sure much less than 300 or 400 calories .. I hope so 

Thanks sis, nice post and great images, especially the one with coffee, cream and orange peel.  Well, we can have it once in a while.  No one could be having this every morning anyway 

[Zainab_M]

We sometimes take cream in our coffee, but just about 1 tea spoon with a little milk like shown in the last image of milk pouring into the coffee cup.  And really, one tea spoon of cream in a cup of coffee tastes quite enough.  I wonder how much calorie would be in a teaspoon of cream.  I'm sure much less than 300 or 400 calories .. I hope so 

Good question sis.  I'll have to check how much that would be.  I had read somewhere that 2 tablespoons of Kraft whipped cream topping contains 15 calories. And 2 tablespoons of Kraft real whipped cream topping has 20.  Considering that, one teaspoon of regular cream might contain approximately below 10 calories.  But I'm speculating.  Not sure. 

Well, we can have it once in a while.  No one could be having this every morning anyway 

Of course, once in a while every rich food is fine provided you keep it "once a while" 

[Heba E. Husseyn]

I'm a black coffee drinker .......

but I take one and a half teaspoonful sugar