Coffee has calories?

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  • higgins8283801
    higgins8283801 Posts: 844 Member
    I log coffee but i don't really care about the 2-4 calories. Although my kcup scanned as 0 calories today. Woohoo. Lol
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    ashleycde wrote: »
    There's approximately 1 calorie per 6 oz of coffee, according to Google, which sources the USDA. I wouldn't sweat it. I log it, but not for the calories. I log it because I like to see everything I consume, and it's just habit at this point.

    Ditto. I also log it because I add milk to mine, which *does* have calories.
  • theutahdesertfox
    theutahdesertfox Posts: 96 Member
    Dude, coffee is my lord and savior. I dare not besmear his name by logging him as a calorie. He's more than that.
  • uvi5
    uvi5 Posts: 710 Member
    theutahdesertfox wrote: »
    Dude, coffee is my lord and savior. I dare not besmear his name by logging him as a calorie. He's more than that.

    I so luvs me coffee 2:)

  • auntyp147
    auntyp147 Posts: 38 Member
    I love my coffee too. Always 'use' to drink 4 or 5 cups a day, black, with 2 teaspoons of sugar per cup. Decided to cut the sugar out and try drinking it black. Three months later, now only drinking 2 cups of black coffee a day. Miss the sugar though, but seems kinda grouse now with how much sugar I use to have a day - and that was just for coffee! :p
  • uvi5
    uvi5 Posts: 710 Member
    auntyp147 wrote: »
    I love my coffee too. Always 'use' to drink 4 or 5 cups a day, black, with 2 teaspoons of sugar per cup. Decided to cut the sugar out and try drinking it black. Three months later, now only drinking 2 cups of black coffee a day. Miss the sugar though, but seems kinda grouse now with how much sugar I use to have a day - and that was just for coffee! :p

    I look forward to waking up just for my coffee and sunrise altogether
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    I log it so my potassium intake is logged. I drink it black.
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    the coffee i drink i think is 150 cal. cappuccino or flat white.

    my understanding black coffee is more of an American thing
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    edited February 2015
    arguablysamson wrote: »
    The tiny calorie-count of coffee comes from the oils from the coffee beans. Mine is straight black with half a 20 oz cup filled with coffee and the other half with hot water. I then add 5 Splenda packets. All in all, from 2.3 to 4-something calories. I'll have as many as two by noontime. Even in my losing phase, I wasn't at all worried about calories from that anymore than I was from Dr Pepper Bold (with 10 calories).

    Each Splenda pack has 3.75 calories worth of maltodextrin. So 5 of them is 14 calories. For people with small deficits/small calorie allowances little calorie amounts like this matter. I always log my Splenda.

  • barby6011
    barby6011 Posts: 21 Member
    Just read the latest data on coffee. The experts think drinking 3 to 4 cups a day black could be the answer to preventing a number of diseases. Diabetes, Parkinson, obesity. Let us all drink up
  • ahoier
    ahoier Posts: 312 Member
    it's odd....cause for years, i've been using the generic 'brewed coffee from grounds' entry that is 'myfitnesspal approved addition'...and for *kitten* and giggles, today for breakfast a couple from church took me to ihop.....and decided to check their nutrition facts while we were eating.....and ihop coffee has 5 calories, 1g carbs, and 1g of fiber....per cup....they were probably 6-8 ounce 'cups' i'd say, maybe not even 8 ounce....lol.

    then last week or so i went to sonic drive in for their 'red button roast' coffee and their coffee clocked in a similar fashion sonic's 16 oz regular clocks in at 15 calories....40g sodium, 2g carbs, 1g fiber, 1g protein lol, and 1% calcium daily value....

    kinda funky.....and i'd assume that is 'black' coffee hehe. obviously cream would be extra.....but regular half and half is typically only 10 calories per 'tub'
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    barby6011 wrote: »
    Just read the latest data on coffee. The experts think drinking 3 to 4 cups a day black could be the answer to preventing a number of diseases. Diabetes, Parkinson, obesity. Let us all drink up

    I've been claiming coffee is a health food for years.

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