Interpreting the mystery of the composition of coffee drinks Coffee ingredients

Nowadays, many consumers who like to drink coffee also like the coffee drinks on the market. The choice of ready-to-drink coffee drinks is generally based on the brand and then the taste. However, in the process of selection and purchase, because the coffee solids and caffeine contents of many coffee drinks are not clear, people have doubts about the authenticity of these products: is there really coffee in coffee drinks?

Market observation

■ coffee ingredients,

The content became a "secret".

Espresso, charcoal flavor, creamy latte, straight-fire baking. In a large supermarket, a high shelf is filled with various brands of coffee drinks.

The reporter observed that the outer packaging of most brands of coffee drinks, in addition to coffee beans, 100% pure and other publicity words, but also marked a lot of ingredients. For example, there are more than 20 kinds of ingredients on the packaging of a coffee drink, such as white granulated sugar, plant fat powder, whole milk powder, sweetened condensed milk, edible flavor and so on. Another coffee drink contains more than 10 kinds of water, granulated sugar, instant coffee, emulsifier, stabilizer and so on.

So, how much coffee is there in coffee drinks? The reporter saw that only some coffee drinks specifically marked this, such as an Italian latte marked "instant coffee addition of 0.63%." "according to the relevant regulations, all kinds of ingredients must be arranged in decreasing order, that is, those with the most content are the first, and those with the least are the last." Nutrition expert Pastoral told reporters, "some brands put coffee extract, instant coffee and so on in the second place in the composition table, some in the fourth, and some even in the last." The coffee content can be simply compared from the order. "

At the same time, the reporter saw from 58.com 's search that many restaurants in our city have also launched homemade coffee drinks. When the reporter called one of the coffee shops, the staff replied, "the boxes of homemade coffee drinks are generally marked with water, milk, instant coffee, white granulated sugar and other major ingredients, and our hot coffee drinks are an exclusive secret recipe without specific content."

■ one bottle of coffee drink calorie = 50 minutes to climb the building to consume energy

"Coffee drinks are sweeter, and it's easy to get fat if you drink too much." Coffee enthusiast Ms. Li said that coffee drinks are generally high in calories, with about 200kj calories per 100ml, and some products even as high as 300kj.

The reporter inquired from the China knowledge Network and found that some expert studies have shown that with a 60kg adult as the reference, the energy consumption of jogging is 8.0kcal/min and the energy consumption of climbing stairs is 4.0kcal/min. If you want to know how long it takes to exercise to drink a bottle of beverage, according to the energy marked in the nutritional composition table of the beverage bottle (in kj), 1kj is about equal to 0.239kcal to convert into calories, and then put in the above reference data, you can get how long it takes to finish different exercises.

In the final analysis, consumers for ready-to-drink coffee is completely as a coffee drink, as long as it tastes good, it is good coffee, this concept makes many unscrupulous businesses provide an opportunity to exploit loopholes. Just imagine that if you can add other food additives, you can adjust the taste of coffee, or even better. It is wishful thinking to make a lot of money when the relevant departments lack supervision over coffee and beverages. In order to put an end to this situation, in addition to the need for the relevant departments to strictly control the standards of coffee drinks, public consumers also need to recognize several well-known coffee brands to buy.