Coffee

kayfhoward1
kayfhoward1 Posts: 63 Member
edited December 3 in Food and Nutrition
Ok guys, I'm getting conflicting information on the facts for coffee. I drink a cup of coffee a day with 2 artificial sweeteners and about a tsp of creamer (I round the creamer up just to be safe). For the same brand medium roast coffee the information that I am finding ranges from 5-30 calories per cup for just the coffee without the additions. So you can see my dilemma. If it were just a couple of cals in difference I would just go with the higher number. But in this case that's a pretty big gap.

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    a cup of black coffee is about 5 calories...5 vs 30 calories isn't really huge...none of this is that exact and everything is an estimate.
  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    8 oz of black cofee should be 2 cals. Any more and sugar, sweetner and/or cream are being added in by the MFP member who posted the listing.
  • kayfhoward1
    kayfhoward1 Posts: 63 Member
    Thanks guys.
  • flagrantavidity
    flagrantavidity Posts: 218 Member
    There are calories in some artificial sweeteners, they just get to round down to zero because they are allowed to by FDA regulations.

    I wanted you to be aware if you are trying to count every calorie.

    (It's like pickles, pickles are listed as zero calories but cucumbers are about 35 calories per 100 grams. It's not like pickling process magically removes the calories - it's just fda regulations allow low calorie foods to be listed as zero depending on the serving size)
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,301 Member
    flagrantavidity wrote: »
    There are calories in some artificial sweeteners, they just get to round down to zero because they are allowed to by FDA regulations.

    I wanted you to be aware if you are trying to count every calorie.

    (It's like pickles, pickles are listed as zero calories but cucumbers are about 35 calories per 100 grams. It's not like pickling process magically removes the calories - it's just fda regulations allow low calorie foods to be listed as zero depending on the serving size)

    Well, yes - so if one is eating a jar of pickles at a time, the calories might sneak up - but one or 2 artificial sweeteners in a cup of coffee - no, not really.

    Out of curiosity I just looked up calories of 'equal' sweeteners - 0.045 calories each , if one wants to be exact.

    So, if OP is putting 20 of them in her cup of coffee (!!!) that would still only be 1 calorie.

    Well, 0.9 of a calorie to be exact. ;)

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