Coffee is a delicious drink that has a refreshing and invigorating effect on the human body. Many people drink coffee in the morning to wake up the body. Few know that regular, sugar-free black coffee contains virtually no calories.
Diet espresso
The issue of calorie content of coffee is of primary concern to fans of a healthy lifestyle, who are planning their meals for weeks and months in advance. They know that one hundred milliliters of coffee contains only two calories, that is, in a small cup of very strong, absolutely black espresso, you can rarely find more than one and a half calories, which is actually very small. True, this applies exclusively to good, brewed coffee. The less water in the drink, the more high-calorie it is, so that the strongest coffee in Turkish can be called a record holder, it has as many as twelve calories, which is still quite a bit. With instant coffee, things are not so rosy.
Three cups of instant coffee have been proven to contain about the same calories as a bar of milk chocolate (about five hundred). The complex chemical composition of instant coffee leads to the fact that this drink is digested for a rather long time, causing specific reactions in the body. Cardiologists strongly advise against drinking instant coffee for people with heart disease.
Insidious latte and cappuccino
Unfortunately, there are not so many lovers of plain black coffee. Usually milk, cream and sugar are added to it. This is where the problem lies. Milk and other additives, of course, soften the taste of the drink, make it more refined, but at the same time increase the calorie content tenfold. So a cup of espresso with the addition of milk contains not two, but thirty-seven calories, and a delicious latte can contain from one hundred and eighty to two hundred and fifty calories (depending on the presence or absence of syrup). This can hardly be called a healthy diet drink, given that the recommended calorie intake for a modern person is at the level of two thousand and a half, which means that a standard latte will "cover" one tenth of the total daily diet.
The same goes for cappuccino. A similar, albeit delicious coffee, is milk with syrup and the addition of coffee, which makes it a very high-calorie drink, because it is milk that "takes on" the main energy value. So, if you follow the figure, it is better to give up such excesses, opting for espresso and Americano, which is espresso with the addition of water. Interestingly, espresso has less caffeine than many other types of coffee. This is due to the fact that coffee beans do not come into contact with water for a long time during the preparation of this drink.
