5 Reasons to Stop Adding Milk or Cream to Your Coffee

18.12.2024 09:41

It is generally accepted that coffee goes perfectly with milk and cream.

Many coffee lovers cannot even imagine an invigorating drink without one of these additives.

And this is quite understandable: from the point of view of taste, the coffee and milk combination is truly gorgeous.

And from the point of view of benefit? Unfortunately, everything is more complicated here.

There are several reasons to avoid adding milk or cream to your coffee.

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Caloric content

By using milk additives in coffee, you increase the calorie content of the drink.

The indicator increases by 50-70 kcal.

This may not seem like much, but for people trying to lose weight, it can make a big difference.

It is also worth remembering that black coffee speeds up metabolism quite well.

Coffee is healthier without milk

The white additive deprives coffee of many of its beneficial properties.

If you stop adding milk to the invigorating drink, the latter will actually reduce the risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases, liver disease, and cancer.

Coffee without milk is more invigorating

Coffee helps to get rid of drowsiness.

Unfortunately, milk can partially deprive the drink of this property.

Coffee without milk improves performance

Do you want coffee to give you energy?

Then stop using the milk additive! It will stop the drink from being a "source" of activity for you.

Milk proteins do not combine with tannins.

Milk and cream contain special proteins, and coffee contains tannins. These compounds are not "friends".

Frequent consumption of coffee and milk combinations is fraught with a serious increase in the load on the gastrointestinal tract.

Kurchev Anton Author: Kurchev Anton Deputy Editor-in-Chief


Content
  1. Caloric content
  2. Coffee is healthier without milk
  3. Coffee without milk is more invigorating
  4. Coffee without milk improves performance
  5. Milk proteins do not combine with tannins.