Can Consumers Eat and Drink Healthily at Coffeehouses
As most consumers know, coffeehouses are not very good sources of nutrition for the health-conscious customer. Sure, if you stick to plain coffee or tea, you probably will not go too wrong. Both tea and coffee contain antioxidants that help your body resist various diseases and conditions. It is when you start adding substances such as sugar and half-and-half that fat, carbohydrates, and calories pile on. Even honey, which many people substitute for sugar as a healthy alternative, adds calories and carbohydrates to your beverages.
Starbucks is notorious for the calories in its coffee drinks, but it is not the only chain making high-calorie beverages. Even the smallest lattes at both Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and Peet’s Coffee and Tea are over 200 calories. However, Peet’s does offer a 12-ounce vanilla latte that has only 93 calories when made sugar-free with nonfat milk. Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf has a no-sugar-added caramel latte, but does not seem to offer it with nonfat milk.
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Coffee Review: Starbucks Pike Place
Starbucks opened their first coffee store at the Pike Place market in Seattle in 1971.This site also happens to be the Starbucks where Howard Schultz tasted his first cup of Starbucks coffee. He had gone there to sell them a coffee maker, but loved the coffee so much he joined the company. Later, he became the CEO and drove the company to the huge success it is today.
In 2008, Starbucks decided to honor Pike Place’s importance in its history by creating the Pike Place Roast. Starbucks intended this particular roast to be “an all around great cup of coffee.” It is purported to have softer acidity and a smoother finish than Starbucks’ other coffees because of high-grown Arabica beans. These beans are roasted and blended in a way that “brings out the cocoa and toasted nut flavors” of the beans.
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Review of Gold Peak Tea’s Diet Iced Tea
Gold Peak ready-to-drink iced tea is a product of the Coca-Cola family, a fact that should say a lot by itself. It comes in an 18.5-ounce clear plastic bottle whose label politely requests that the bottle be recycled. This review is regarding Gold Peak Teas Diet Iced Tea, one of five flavors available in supermarkets and other stores. Other flavors include Sweetened Iced Tea, Sweetened Green Iced Tea, Lemon Iced Tea, and Unsweetened Iced Tea.
Gold Peak uses high-grown black and green teas grown in the mountains west of Kenya’s Rift Valley. Kenyan black tea is very popular, since becoming the tea most used by Irish tea companies. It is a bold, very brisk, black tea with taste notes similar to that of Ceylon tea. It grows at the altitude of 5,000 to 7,000 feet and pickers harvest it every 17 days year round.
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The Iced Coffee Competition Begins
Spring has arrived and in most parts of the northern hemisphere, the weather is at least beginning to become warmer. For those in places such as California and Florida, spring has been around a while and summer weather approaches fast. It is time to start thinking of those cold drinks everyone longs for in the hotter days. The coffee bars and fast food restaurants are already ahead of us, their iced coffee strategies well planned.
Despite the rise in sales of cold coffee drinks, most people in the U.S drink coffee hot rather than iced. In 2009, only 30 of coffee drinkers consumed at least one blended, iced, or frozen coffee drink. However, this is up from 2008, in which only 27 percent drank any type of cold coffee drink. This would seem to indicate that drinking cold coffee drinks are on the rise in the U.S.
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