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K-cup calories?

Francl27
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If instant coffee is 5 calories a serving, surely a kcup is more than 0 calories? I know that 2 cups is not going to make or break my diet, but I'm curious... I've been using the Archer Farm ones, and the database says it's 0 calories.
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My San Francisco Bay brand ones are like 2 or 40
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The ones I have at work range from 2-4 calories a pod.0
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calculate them the same way you would normal coffee grounds. a k-cup is nothing more than an individual serving of coffee grounds with a built-in filter. so all you're getting is normal coffee.
ETA: besides, you're drinking the flavored water, not eating the pod or the grounds inside.0 -
i guess its not really 0 cals but not worth logging or worrying about either, and it seems like you feel that way anyway0
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For my Keurig, I only use Green Mountain brand Kcups and they are 2 calories for each K cup. It is the only thing that I don't log.0
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The ability to legally claim no calories and actually having no calories in a food item are very different things. A cup of black coffee is 2-9 calories depending on the site reporting the information. If you drink a lot of coffee, it can add up but one or two is negligible and falls within the margin of error.0
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I know that hot chocolate and the chai latte k-cups are 60 calories each, but the black coffee ones are 2-4 calories per serving.0
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They're 4 calories, and they're listed on MFP. Some are 60 calories depending if it's got other things like caramel mixed in them.0
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My sister in law is a nutritionist and I had asked her this as I was confused as well, she said all plain unflavored coffee and any tea has zero calories (if drinking it black/plain) due to the energy it takes consuming the caffeine as long as its brewed with water (not sure what else you would brew it with) . The calories you need to be concerned with most to log are any added sugar, cream, other things you might add to it. If you want to log it as 2 or 4 that's your choice but its probably negligible either way. I log mine because I just log everything including my water. Cheers.0
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