29 May Why I drink black coffee – updated x 2
Men’s Health offers graphic equivalencies for the 20 sugariest drinks in America. A 20-oz Starbuck’s Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha with Whipped Cream has as much sugar as as 8½ scoops Edy’s Slow Churned Rich and Creamy Coffee Ice Cream.
A 20 oz bottle of SoBe Green Tea has as much sugar as four slices of Sara Lee Cherry Pie.
Tim Horton’s medium black coffee, no sugar:
[Update] But Jocelyne Marchand of Grand Pré points out:
A teaspoon of sugar has 16 calories – the issue is not a teaspoon of sugar in a cup of coffee.
How many coffee drinkers limit themselves to a level teaspoon, no cream? Two rounded teaspoons is probably closer to the norm. The standard sugar serving for medium coffee at Tim Horton’s weighs in at eight grams and 35 calories. The standard cream serving is 21 millilitres (1.42 tablespoons), or 40 calories. Double that for the classic Tim’s order, a medium double-double, and you’ve got 150 calories. Times, what? Four a day?
Source: Tim Horton’s nutritional calculator.
Bob Collicutt thinks I’m giving Timmy an easy ride:
And then there’s the Cold Stone offering: equivalent to 68 strips of bacon.
The same product family being tested at select Tim Hoton locations in Nova Scotia: Bedford (980 Bedford Way), Dartmouth (577 Main Street), Halifax (6455 Quinnpool Rd), Sydney (479 George St), and Wolfville (370 Main St).
Hat tip: Flowingdata.com