How Many Calories Are There In Your Iced Coffee

July 29, 2009 By Mark

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3485429591_6fb6bf4e0b[1] A lot of coffee restaurants are popping up in the UK , on the high street and are a convenient pitstop if you want a break from your shopping. However a cancer based charity has said that these types of coffee’s can contain as many calories as a regular meal.

The one that had the most calories was 560 calories while others contained 450, and respectively 200. Some small meals that you can eat say for instance something like macaroni cheese can contain less than 560 calories. So you would be drinking quite a lot of calories in your coffee.

The main reason for this is the ingredients within the coffee, which tends to be full fat cream, milk, and sugar. The charity which put the findings forward said there were other alternatives which were healthier by far.

One particular one which was very high in calories is one sold by Starbucks this is called the Dark Berry Mocha Frappuccino this contained a whopping 561 calories in total, if you minus the cream then it comes down to 457 calories.

And the smallest one that you can get, will give you 280 calories, if you have something from Costas Coffee’s then you are coming down the scale one of their particular offerings the Massimo Coffee Frescato weighs in at 322 calories.

While at the low end of the scale there smallest coffee had just under 200 calories, which isn’t too bad but still isn’t very brilliant as far as drinking coffee is concerned.

Rachel Thomson who is part of the WCRF which noted the findings said it was quite alarming, that a coffee which would give you a quarter of a woman’s calorie allowance in a day was something that people needed to be aware of.

Because we tend to think that we get most of our calories from eating food rather than coffee, there is nothing wrong with having one of these in moderation but it could quite easily become a habit.

So you just need to pay attention to what you are drinking and where because ultimately this could be one of the reasons why you could be gaining weight and not even realising where it is coming from.

Many of these places do have different coffee’s is just a matter of choosing the right one for you especially if you are trying to lose weight.