How about instant coffee? does instant coffee get fat? why is Benazon coffee so expensive?

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The convenience of three-in-one instant coffee improves the popularity of "drinking coffee". According to the survey, each person in China drinks an average of about 120 cups of coffee per year, of which the most is three-in-one instant coffee (28%), followed by canned and ground coffee in convenience stores (21%).

But many people who drink three-in-one instant coffee don't pay much attention to quality. Because three-in-one coffee is cheaper than ground coffee, consumers demand too high quality for low-cost products, and over time, some people don't care what they drink.

Have you ever wondered what is in instant coffee that is convenient and easy to brew quickly?

1. What you think of as sugar-free coffee is actually high in fat

Per person's daily calorie intake from fat should only account for 1020% of the total calories, no more than 30% at most. When the fat-calorie ratio of a product exceeds 30%, it enters the dangerous range of "high fat".

Whether it is three-in-one or two-in-one coffee, the proportion of fat is almost all too high. Calculated from the nutrition labeling data of the market three-in-one coffee, the real pot Mantenin and Benazon classic Mantenin.

What is even more amazing is that behind the "sugar-free" two-in-one coffee, there is actually the truth of "high fat". You may think that sugar-free two-in-one coffee is healthier, but the numbers can talk. Two-in-one coffee all have more than 30% fat calories, and even more than 50% of fat calories in the real pot classic sugar-free two-in-one and UCC charcoal-fired two-in-one. In contrast, the fat content of filter-mounted ground coffee is almost zero, which kind of coffee you drink determines your fat intake.

2. Convenient three-in-one and two-in-one, containing 60% 80% cream and sugar

Cream, sugar and coffee beans all have carbohydrates. Comparing the content of carbohydrates (carbohydrate density), it was found that the proportion of carbohydrates in three-in-one and two-in-one was 6-8 times different from that in filter coffee, and the difference was sugar and cream.

Take filter coffee as an example, the sugar density is 0.1, which means that only 1 gram of a packet of 10 grams of coffee powder is carbohydrate and comes from the coffee itself.

But three-in-one and two-in-one coffee are completely different. The carbohydrate density of three-in-one coffee is as high as 0.7-0.8. In other words, in a 20-gram three-in-one coffee, 12 to 16 grams are carbohydrates, and most of them come from sugar and cream, almost like sugary drinks.

Although the two-in-one coffee has no sugar, cream also has carbohydrates, so the sugar density is slightly lower than that of the three-in-one coffee, but it is also about 0.6. only the charcoal-fired two-in-one of UCC has a lower carbohydrate density.

If the portion difference is not taken into account, the calorie of each brand of three-in-one coffee in a single package can reach 1.6 times; compared with filter coffee, the calorie difference is more than 20 times.

Take the UCC original flavor comprehensive convenient brewing coffee (filter hanging type) as an example, the calories are only 4 calories, but the calories of UCC's selected comprehensive three-in-one are 78.6 calories, a difference of 20 times; Seattle instant manning and Benazon classic mantenin are both more than 90 calories, the difference is as much as 23 times.

The calorie density is the heat generated per gram of food, if the density is more than 4, it is a high-calorie food.

The survey found that:

The calorie density of each brand of ▼ three-in-one coffee exceeds the standard.

The number of ▼ two-in-one coffee is polarized. it is true that the calorie density of UCC and Benazon sugar-free two-in-one coffee is a little low, which is 3.8 and 3.2 respectively, but the calorie density of Nestl é and Brown two-in-one coffee has risen to more than 5.

The calorie density of ▼ filter coffee varies from 0.4 to 0.6.

In the process of data analysis, it was also found that the calorie labels of some brands were different from those calculated according to the actual calculation of the three major nutrients. Liu Qinyu said bluntly, "how can this make consumers understand what coffee contains?!" "

3. Unable to verify the quality and content of coffee

In fact, instant coffee powder, whether three-in-one or two-in-one, has the disadvantage of insufficient aroma from the very beginning. "the most important thing in drinking coffee is the aroma, but the aroma will be destroyed in the freeze-drying process of instant coffee, leaving only a bitter taste," says Zhuang Hongzhang, who won the 2010 Asian Coffee Masters Competition and is now the associate manager of Man Coffee.

The coffee beans used to make three-in-one and two-in-one coffee are likely to be the lowest quality beans, because in terms of price, low-cost coffee is difficult to have both quality.

Using the factory price as the retail price of 1/4, suppose a bag of three-in-one 12 yuan, the factory price is 3 yuan, deducting the packaging is 1 yuan, as well as sugar, cream and profit, coffee is only about 50 cents. But it takes 7 kilos of 10 grams of coffee beans to brew a cup of 120cc ground coffee, 45 cups of coffee for 1 pound of coffee beans, and 9 yuan for 1 pound coffee beans. So it is the ratio of 9 yuan to 50 cents for coffee, in other words, the cost of ground coffee is 18 times that of three-in-one.

After being ground and mixed with sugar and cream, the three-in-one coffee makes it more difficult to judge the quality of coffee.

Would it be better if you choose to use the three-in-one quality of Arabica coffee beans? Not necessarily, variety does not represent quality assurance, because quality is also related to collection technology and quality control. You can choose Arabica, of course, but you can't confirm whether its content is 100% or 5%.

How to judge the content of coffee? According to the Food Hygiene Management Law, when there are two or more kinds of food contents, they should be marked according to their contents from high to low. Therefore, those who use the most are the first and the least are the last.

According to the analysis of the three-in-one and two-in-one contents of various brands, it is either "cream, sugar, coffee" or "sugar, cream, coffee". Only Seattle instant latte and mochat three-in-one coffee ingredients rank first.

Two-in-one coffee is mainly composed of UCC charcoal roasted two-in-one and mocha sugar-free latte, and the rest are "cream, instant coffee".

4. in addition to cream and sugar, there are starch and spices.

The biggest problem with three-in-one coffee is cream. Most of the ingredients of three-in-one coffee are cream, granulated sugar and instant coffee, which appear to be simple, but in fact cream contains artificial additives such as glucose syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil, casein sodium, stabilizer, emulsifier and anti-caking agent.

In addition to the complex ingredients of cream, in fact, "three-in-one" coffee is "six in one" or even "seven in one". Because some products also add pigments, spices, salt and so on, some add starch additives such as maltodextrin and dextrin fiber to increase the consistency of coffee. Among them, Benazon classic Mantenin's sugar-free two-in-one coffee, but also added the sweetener ─ maltol. In the plasticizer incident, all kinds of syrup and emulsifiers are artificial additives that make people smell, and some sugar substitutes are also controversial about health hazards. If you want to eat real food, you'd better stay away from artificial additives.