As kids, we kept hearing that breakfast was the most important meal of the day. Now it turns out the choices we're making in the morning can have some big ramifications on our health. From Eat This, Not That (the sister blog of the book by the same title) comes a list of frozen coffee drinks that can take up a big chunk of your recommended daily calorie intake.
Consider the Oreo n' Cookies Cappuccino Blast from Baskin Robbins -- which runs you 950 calories, 37 grams of fat, and 111 grams of sugar. Although if your morning coffee run is to an ice cream shop, this might not come as a shock. The frozen mocha from Panera Bread (670 calories, 26g fat, and 79g sugar) or Java caramel chiller from Sonic (760 calories, 25g fat, 106g sugar) might be a bit more surprising.
These are all essentially renamed milkshakes. In fact, you should just figure you're ordering a coffee milkshake made with several scoops of ice cream.
It's a good bet that anything with the words "chiller" or "blast" or the
ending "-lotta" is probably closer to a dessert than a drink.
All
of this hasn't stopped frozen drinks from gaining in popularity. Dunkin'
Donuts introduced its frozen cappucino two weeks ago (the closest franchise is in Lawrence, until an Overland Park shop opens).
According to the National Coffee Association, Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee a day and 640 million cups of iced coffee a year. Compared to regular coffee, that iced coffee number might sound low until you consider that iced coffee is only drunk seasonally.
If you wonder why you're moving a little slower in the mornings -- it's not the heat, it's the cold.
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