Coffee

vha2
vha2 Posts: 64 Member
in Food and Nutrition
How is the nutritional info SO different between a mug of homemade coffee with skim milk and a cafe-bought trim flat white? Consider:

Homemade = 12cal / 1carb / 0fat / 1protein
McCafe = 88cal / 12carb / 0fat / 9protein

That seems like a huge difference to me, they're pretty much the same size, both skim milk... Do you think the homemade coffee in the MFP database is wrong?

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    If you are making the coffee you should add the coffee and the milk separate rather than relying on some random calculation someone who may or may not being using the same ingredients you used.

    Plain Black Coffee is around 2 calories
    The rest would depend on the amount of milk you use. The database says it's about 80-90 calories a cup.

    So that's pretty darn close to the McCafe version.

    Also a lot of coffee shops use syrup to flavor/sweeten their coffees - that adds calories too.

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