I guess many people are like me, drinking coffee likes coffee with a strong taste, not too bitter coffee, sugar packets, milk bags have to be poured in to start a good life day!
Many coffee veterans generally recommend you "sugar-free and milk-free", why is this?
Because no auxiliary materials are added, in order to better appreciate the original flavor of coffee, the calories of pure coffee will be relatively lower, if you need to control the calorie demand, it is not recommended to add sugar.
However, usually we look down in the coffee shop, most people usually drink coffee habits will still choose to add sugar, milk coffee, is what we often say "life has been so bitter, need to add some sugar ah =-="
White sugar and brown sugar
At present, white sugar is a more common sugar used in domestic coffee drinking, due to moderate sweetness, impurities are relatively small, so the vast majority of sugar packages on the market are white sugar.
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The raw material of brown sugar is the same as white sugar, which is also sugar cane, but the production process of brown sugar is more complicated, so the price is more expensive.
General coffee shops will have white sugar sachets and brown sugar sachets for people with different tastes.
In terms of sweetness, the sweetness of white sugar is more concentrated and dissolves faster; the sweetness of brown sugar is more natural, and the speed of dissolution is relatively slow. In terms of the impact on the flavor of coffee, when sugar and coffee are mixed, brown sugar is sweeter, contains fewer additives, has an additional caramel aroma, and has a richer taste level. And white sugar is sometimes not ideally integrated, and will be affected by the original flavor of coffee beans.
So, if possible, we recommend you add a little brown sugar to try. Of course, small partners who need to control calories are not recommended to add sugar. Both of them are big cards, and you add a few spoonfuls and add almost the equivalent of you eating a bowl of rice.
Flavor syrup OR monosaccharide syrup?
When we choose the sweetness of increasing or decreasing sugar, there are two main judgments, one is the flavor type of syrup, which will increase the flavor after being added; the other is the base type of syrup, which has no special flavor after addition, only increases the sweet part, for example: vanilla latte We can not do the sugar, because the syrup is removed, and the flavor of vanilla will disappear.
In the flavor syrup part, common cocoa, vanilla, caramel and hazelnuts, etc., different kinds of espresso, will add different flavor syrups, for example: Mocha will add cocoa (chocolate) syrup.
Cold knowledge: In general, hot drinks we will add granulated sugar, ice drinks we will add fructose syrup, mainly because of the problem of dissolution: granulated sugar is not easy to dissolve in ice drinks, and syrup is easy to reduce the drinking temperature of coffee.
Sugar substitutes
What is sugar substitute?
In layman's terms, sugar substitutes are food sweeteners. The definition of sweetener in the "National Standard for Food Safety" GB2760-2014 is: a substance that gives food sweetness.
Sugar substitutes, a type of sugar that produces a sweet taste, are different from traditional sugars in that they have lower calories. Sugar substitutes make our brains perceive sweetness, but they don't cause fluctuations in blood sugar levels. Sugar substitutes were originally created for use by diabetics and are now widely used in a variety of "sugar-free" foods.
The core ingredient of sugar substitutes is "sweeteners" commonly used aspartame and sucralose (sucralose), which can also be found in sugar-free cola. (There are also saccharin, cyclamate, monk fructose, sugar alcohols)
These sweeteners, because they are not sugars themselves, do not produce heat, but they are very sweet, so we make sweeteners.
Is sugar substitute high in calories? In the case of aspartame sweet candy, a small packet of energy is about 4 calories, which is only 1/8 of the same sweetness of white sugar. This is a great option for people who often have to add sugar.
Drinking coffee has become a habit of life, whether it is choosing sugar-free and milk-free coffee, or choosing your own sugar and milk coffee, it is good for you. Don't follow the crowd, just choose your own comfortable lifestyle.
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