Jakarta –
Milk coffee is one of the drinks that many people choose. If you want to make a healthy drink, make coffee with milk using the following tips.
Milk coffee is known as a popular drink in Indonesia. It is known that there are many coffee shops in Indonesia that offer coffee milk blends with various variants, such as palm sugar milk coffee.
Reporting from Essa News (27/11), the milk coffee concoction consists of additional milk, various flavored syrups and ice cubes. However, some of these additional ingredients can be dangerous to health, because the sugar and calorie content is quite high.
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Some nutritionists claim that low-fat milk is suitable to be added to healthy coffee blends. Using low-fat milk not only improves the taste, but provides healthy benefits for the body.
Use Vegetable Milk
 Almond Milk Getty Images/Kritchai Chaibangyang |
Now it’s trendy to mix milk coffee with vegetable milk. When compared with regular cow’s milk, plant milk is known to be lower in calories. For example, oat milk, almond milk, and others.
Milk coffee prepared with vegetable milk is not only healthy, but can reduce the bitter taste. As long as the sugar content in vegetable milk is also within normal limits.
Avoid Powdered Milk or Powdered Cream
You also need to pay attention to the use of powdered milk or powdered cream if you want to make a healthy mixture. Because these two ingredients contain quite high levels of sugar.
In fact, just one teaspoon of powdered milk or cream can increase glucose levels significantly. Just 1 teaspoon of powdered milk (2.6 grams) contains 1 gram of sugar.
The use of sweeteners and other sugar substitutes in milk coffee blends can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes. So, it’s best to use natural, sweet substitutes such as erythritol, stevia, or xylitol, even in moderate amounts.
Add Spices
Another additional ingredient that can make milk coffee concoctions healthier is the use of spices. These include adding cardamom and cinnamon.
The addition of these spices makes the coffee milk mixture rich in antioxidants. This content can increase the body’s immunity. Apart from that, the aroma of milk coffee becomes more fragrant.
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