HOW MANY CALORIES IN COFFEE?
Asser Christensen, founder, and editor of The Coffee Chronicler shared that he has been crazy about caffeine for almost as long as he can remember. Today, he id a licensed Q Arabica Grader and full-time coffee writer.
Coffee is tasty, and it gives you superpowers in the morning. Furthermore, it virtually doesn’t have any calories. That is if you drink it black.
When you look around online you’ll often see people saying that coffee has zero calories, but that’s not entirely accurate if we are to trust USDA, there are about 2 kcal in a cup of coffee. (Source)
Still, that number is so low that it doesn’t make any difference at all. 2 calories are not going to get in the way of any sixpack.
Black & white coffee calories
- A cup of coffee: 2 kcal
- Espresso shot: 3 kcal
- Instant coffee (2 gram): 7 kcal
- Cold brew bottle 325 ml: 16 kcal
- Starbucks Café Latte 340 ml: 150 calories
- Starbucks Frappuccino 411 ml: 292 kcal
(Sources: 1, 2)
* For comparison, there are 142 calories in a can of Coke.
DOES COFFEE HAVE CALORIES?
While black coffee, in general, doesn’t make any difference in the caloric balance, this doesn’t extend to other coffee-based drinks that often contain plenty of sugar, milk, cream, and syrup.
Drinks such as latte and cappuccino are often accused of being rather unhealthy. These allegations are somewhat valid.
According to Starbucks themselves, their café latte contains 150 calories for a tall cup of 12oz. For the innocuous looking café mocha that number is a whopping 230 kcal per tall cup.
Bear in mind that these numbers are based on using 2 % milk. If whole milk is used, the caloric impact is even more significant.
For some perspective, a single hamburger from McDonald’s contains 251 calories.
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