How Many Calories in Coffee?

(I love that the READ MORE above is How To Quit Drinking Coffee. Immediately harkened me to the oft quoted line from Brokeback Mountain about WHY CAINT I QUIT YOU?)

I guess Im lucky Im all about the black & bitter?

do I need to fess up that, at times, there is a fresh baked muffin close behind the caffeine?

One thing I've always wondered is, how much liquid is contained in the creamers that you get at McDonalds or a diner, etc. It's certainly less than a tablespoon. Yes?

I've always kind of thought this was kind of a "no duh" kind of thing...of course black coffee has almost zero calories; it's the additives that make it high-calorie. When I was overweight, I used to get these 20 ounce "cappuccinos" from the local Kwik Trip and they were probably a good 200-300 calories or so because they had a lot of sugar in them. One of the first substitutions I made in my diet when I wanted to get healthier was to just use a little flavored creamer in my coffee. So I cut about 250 calories just like that...pretty easy. I still like my coffee on the sweet side, so I use flavored creamer in it and just figure it into my daily calorie intake. I never get those froufy Starbucks mocha-latte-double-whip-cappuccino things...too expensive and too many calories for me.

my heart skipped a beat when I saw it in my RSS feed.

Coffee? Has CALORIES!?!?!

Thank god it's only two. If it had been in the double digits per cup, I'd be consuming hundreds of calories every day.

I would not have guessed that coffee only had 2 calories on its own. Its interesting how much of a difference little things like milk and sugar in coffee make in our caloric intake and ultimately our overall health.

I love coffee. Fortunately black coffee! People often dont include things like coffee when they are following a calorie controlled diet plan. But if you have milk & sugar it certainly adds up.

It is much better to drink tea rather than drinking coffee. Me I do this for almost 4 years, but still I drink coffee once in a while.

I don't generally drink lattes or cappucinos (they're not that popular where I live anyway, no starbucks here in the North West of Ireland!) but when I lived in Montreal I'd have one every once in a while.

I just treated it like I would a slice of cake or pie: get the smallest size and savour it, and don't eat it too often.

When I was dieting I always felt like a bit of a supermodel when I drank coffee. Now I like it dark and a little bitter too.

Shouldn't the calories in your table be kilocalories? I.e. instead of an espresso being only one calorie it is actually 1000 calories. I've seen this confusion more often; lots of people can't tell the difference between a cal. and a kcal. If you check the calorie count on the USDA nutrient database it clearly states kcals!

stopping back by to see what other people thought...AS I SIP MY COFFEE :)

ahh the irony.

wait, that isnt irony.

I hadnt vowed to give it up.

My bad.

carry on.

Enjoying her 2 calorie drink with her GOODNESS KNOWS THE CALORIES treat,

M.

I drink my coffee black and unsweetened and love it! I used to add all sorts of sweet stuff and creamers to my java, but now the taste of sweet milky coffee really grosses me out.

Does coffee make anyone else breakout? It seems like whenever I drink a lot of coffee, I get blemishes a few days later. I also drink my coffee with milk and have heard that milk can cause some people to breakout...maybe that's it? At any rate, I try to avoid coffee for this reason, even though I really enjoy it.

There is a study in the May edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that concluded that "The ingestion of Caffeinated Coffee (CC) with either a high or low GI meal significantly impairs acute blood glucose management and insulin sensitivity compared with ingestion of Decaf Coffee. Future investigations are warranted to determine whether CC is a risk factor for insulin resistance.

The subjects drank either a cup of CC or DC 1 hour before eating a bowl of either high or low GI cereal.
The Caffeinated Coffee had the biggest effect - the difference between cereals was negligible.

So cereal before coffee is good and coffee before cereal is bad.

But I need my latte

link to the abstract

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/87/5/1254

How is it that McDonalds brewed coffee has no calories and yet all the other brewed coffees listed have at least 2 calories?

I always find it funny when people say that coffee is good for you and then add tons of cream, sugar and other flavourings. Ignorance is bliss :)

i love coffee. i think i drink about 30 oz (starbucks brewed) of it daily. in my heavier days, i used to put half & half in it. now i just add a splash of skim milk and some sweet 'n' low or splenda. i'll gladly sacrifice 30 cals a day to not feel like crap.

and i NEVER EVER have those fancy blended creamy syrupy concoctions. *shudder*

I am also one of the coffee lovers, I have my own full automatic espresso machine at home and it already paid off (instead of drinking the coffee at the Starbucks). I like my coffe with (skim) milk, but NEVER with these sweet syrups. They're taste is so artifical.

Happy to see there is a chat show calories in common coffee drinks and that is not supprised me that Starbucks Caffè Mocha whip have 360 calories. This is the time for me to quick starbucks coffe after seeing this chat :)

There are also sugar-free flavor pumps. They even have them now at McDonalds. It makes my drink order longer to say "decaf soy latte with 1 pump of sugar-free vanilla." However, that way, I'm getting it with fewer cals. I wish Starbucks would move to the unsweetened Soy Milk. Soy is so healthy, adding in the extra sugar is not.

It's scary to think that a Starbucks Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha has the same calories as a BigMac.

Wow, great post. I've often wondered about how many calories a regular black coffee has, and have heard many different versions from people.

Nobody likes the taste of regular coffee. Nobody would drink it unless it had everyone's favorite drug in it. Decaf anyone?

You'd be amazed how many old people drink decaf black coffee (Im a waiter).

Drinking coffee blocks heart walls so better avoid drinking coffee though it clears some diseases