Does drinking coffee make you fat? How many calories are in 1 cup of coffee? In this article, let’s find the answer to Vlux Vietnam.
Coffee is a drink that is loved by many people. Not only our country but almost every country in the world uses coffee. But few people know how many calories are in a cup of coffee. Does drinking coffee make you fat? And now let’s find out.
1. How many calories are in 100g of coffee?
It is known that for black coffee, on average, every 100g of coffee contains about 2.55 calories. Depending on each person’s coffee-drinking preferences, the number of calories in a cup of coffee varies.
Black coffee
Usually, a 237ml cup of coffee contains about 100mg of caffeine. For those who like sweet drinks, you can add 1 teaspoon of sugar. 1 teaspoon of sugar provides at least 16 calories.
If you don’t like black coffee, you can mix it with milk. The calorie content of a cup of milk coffee depends on the type of milk you choose.
Milk coffee
A cup of milk coffee will contain 44 calories if you mix it with fat-free milk, but if you mix it with whole milk, it will be 78 calories equivalent to 5g of fat.
2. Nutritional ingredients in coffee
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the nutritional ingredients in 100g of coffee are as follows:
- Calories: 1
- Water: 99.39g
- Protein: 0.12g
- Fat: 0.02g
- Calcium: 2mg
- Iron: 0.01mg
- Magnesium: 3mg
- Vitamin E: 0.01g
- Vitamin B1: 0.014mg
- Vitamin B2: 0.076mg
The ingredients and nutritional content will vary depending on what ingredients you make coffee with.
Nutritional ingredients in coffee
3. What are the effects of drinking coffee?
Warm up your body for a new day
According to many studies, drinking a cup of coffee every morning will help you stay more alert because caffeine can stimulate the spinal cord and cerebral cortex. In addition, drinking a cup of coffee every morning also helps promote better functioning of the excretory system.
Antioxidant reduces the risk of cancer
A study in May 2017 announced that people who drink 1 cup of coffee a day will have a 20% lower risk of liver cancer and 2 cups will have a 35% lower risk.
Antioxidants in coffee can reduce the risk of oral cancer by 50% by protecting against oral tumours.
Antioxidant reduces the risk of cancer
Support for people with asthma
The caffeine in coffee can help people with asthma breathe easier. Caffeine is considered to have similar actions to theophylline, which opens airways in the lungs.
Losing weight
Coffee has very low calories, so drinking coffee every day will not cause you to gain weight. In addition, you can also effectively support weight loss.
Losing weight
Pain relief
Research from experts at Goldsmiths University has announced that 250mg of caffeine can increase pain tolerance in women. When you have a headache, combining caffeine and aspirin will increase the pain relief effect.
4. Does drinking coffee make you fat?
With a very small amount of calories in coffee, drinking coffee will not make you fat, on the contrary, it will help you lose weight. But you must drink it properly. An average person’s body needs to take in 2,000 calories a day, but the calorie content of 4 cups of coffee only contains about 500mg of caffeine. So drinking coffee will not cause fat.
Does drinking a lot of coffee make you fat?
You should especially drink hot coffee because it will help your metabolism go faster. In addition, coffee also has the effect of eliminating harmful toxins from the body and is a diuretic because it contains a very high amount of caffeine.
5. Is drinking a lot of coffee good?
You should not drink too much coffee in a short period as it will lead to addiction because coffee contains caffeine which is a stimulant.
For healthy adults, consuming a maximum of 400mg of coffee per day is a safe level.
In addition, medical experts have also recommended that pregnant women and children should not drink coffee. If you want to take it, the maximum dosage should not exceed 200mg per day and you must consult a doctor.
Don’t drink too much coffee
6. How to drink coffee to lose weight effectively
You should choose low-fat milk to cut 50-60 calories in your 1 cup of milk coffee or just drink 1 cup of black coffee every morning to help lose weight effectively.
You should choose the right type of sugar if you drink black coffee because 1 teaspoon of sugar contains 16 calories. So you need to be careful to choose the right type of sugar, it’s best to choose natural sugar.
How to drink coffee to lose weight effectively
You should not use extra cream when drinking coffee, because the calorie content in a cup of pure cream coffee is very large. This leads to ineffective reduction when taken with cream.
7. What time of day should you drink coffee?
You should drink coffee 30 minutes after meals
You should not drink coffee on an empty stomach because it will affect your heart, and blood pressure, and increase stomach acid, which is very harmful to your health.
You should not drink black coffee too late as it will lead to insomnia, affecting your health and spirit the next day.
It’s best to drink coffee 30 minutes after a meal, it certainly won’t harm your stomach or nervous system.
Above is some information about the coffee that Vlux Vietnam provides for you. We hope that the above information will help you clearly know the calorie content of coffee and use coffee effectively and well for your health.
To order the best quality coffee, please contact:
VLUX VIETNAM IMPORT EXPORT COMPANY LIMITED
Email: info@vluxexim.com/ hienchi.vlux@gmail.com
Website: vluxexim.com
Address: No. 58A Vo Van Dung Street, O Cho Dua Ward, Dong Da District, Hanoi City, Vietnam.
Mobile/Whatsapp/Wechat: +84 812 887 858
VLUX VIETNAM IMPORT EXPORT COMPANY LIMITED
Email: info@vluxexim.com/ hienchi.vlux@gmail.com
Website: vluxexim.com
Address: No. 58A Vo Van Dung Street, O Cho Dua Ward, Dong Da District, Hanoi City, Vietnam.
Mobile/Whatsapp/Wechat: +84 812 887 858
