How many cups of coffee do you have per day?

[KK123]

Wait. What? Come again? You make your coffee with a third of the cup/mug/glass being double cream?? Blimey, that is crazy. Each to their own and everything, but that is a bit way out there. You must have to boil the cream first to stop it making your coffee instantly cold

I do too although I use a medium cup....I do have to pop the coffee (plus cream) into a microwave to make it hot though having gone to the trouble of investing in an espresso machine. When we were in Italy and I asked for my coffee that way, they were aghast! They did it though.

 

[KK123]

How much coffee do you drink

Hold on, I'm still counting......

 

[Member496333]

I do too although I use a medium cup....I do have to pop the coffee (plus cream) into a microwave to make it hot though having gone to the trouble of investing in an espresso machine. When we were in Italy and I asked for my coffee that way, they were aghast! They did it though.

Barmy stuff. Well as long as y’all enjoy it that’s the main thing

 

[Mr_Pot]

I do too although I use a medium cup....I do have to pop the coffee (plus cream) into a microwave to make it hot though having gone to the trouble of investing in an espresso machine. When we were in Italy and I asked for my coffee that way, they were aghast! They did it though.

If by "medium cup" you mean a normal tea cup size, then a third of a cup of double cream would be about 300kcal. which seems a lot for a drink.

 

[jape]

Wait. What? Come again? You make your coffee with a third of the cup/mug/glass being double cream?? Blimey, that is crazy. Each to their own and everything, but that is a bit way out there. You must have to boil the cream first to stop it making your coffee instantly cold

In North America, we refer to the % as the fat % of milk or cream. Thus
0% milk
1% milk
2% milk
3.25% milk
10% cream
18% cream and
35% cream

 

[jape]

Is coffee bad for kidneys?

Apparently there is some substance in coffee that is bad for one if one has chronic kidney disease (CKD). I don't think it applies when one has normal kidney function.

 

[Member496333]

In North America, we refer to the % as the fat % of milk or cream. Thus
0% milk
1% milk
2% milk
3.25% milk
10% cream
18% cream and
35% cream

Ah ha! Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

 

[Hotpepper20000]

Ah ha! Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

I’m in London for the month of February and finding it a challenge because none of the coffee shops have cream. Sooo black americano it is. I think the first day I was here I had 5.
Must be the water but I haven’t had a bad one yet.

 

[LittleGreyCat]

I usually have one cup to start the day.
However that is 3 heaped spoons of instant plus butter and double cream.
I usually also have a black americano at the coffee stop on cycle ride Wednesdays

 

[AloeSvea]

I'm sitting here with my first lovely strong cup of coffee for the day (I was trained in coffee drinking by serious coffee drinkers - the Swedes, so I learnt my limits with that divine drug caffeine as a young woman). (The Swedes by the way, were the first folks to do scientific studies of the effects of coffee drinking, although I am quite sure the peoples who first discovered it made a fantastic stimulant and drink had lively conversations like this one of the effects and personal limitations with it also!)

First of all - @jape - I had a kidney function scare recently (urine test result, as opposed to the egfr). So before I got the re-test results I read up in here and scientific papers online on the effect of coffee on kidneys, and the bladder (it can be an irritant). I am just waking up (yeah - with my Swedish-strength coffee) - so I am will reviist with the papers' links - cos this is good info for us to talk about. I cut down my generous consumption first, just in case, but quickly understood that there is no relationship between coffee and the drink, and kidney malfunction and decline - is my understanding. In fact, adorably - there is at least one paper which suggests coffee has a protective effect! (I was not expecting that either.) it would be interesting to hear why your doctor suggests coffee is contributing to CKD - as in the evidence and all that. Doctors mean well of course - but can jump on the nutrition thing with just the same knowledge as everyone else without disclosing that - and patients can think the doctor actually knows on the subject.... well.

Coffee and tea can be dehyrdrating, so if you are a fan - make sure you aren't drinking it or a lot of it before a standard diabetes check urine test - too much can skew the results. (High summer with high humidity here - so too easy to get dehyrated I discovered - drank a ton of water for an afternoon test, not a first thing in the morning one for the re-test.) (Yes - all normal. Whew!) (the egfr results, from the blood, was the correct one as it was.)

So my two cents worth - coffee not bad for the kidneys, but, it can be a irritant on your poor old bladder! If you have a poor old bladder. (I do! Alas.) So I keep my consumption to 2 or 3 in the morning, and the same with tea. And that helps my bladder issues which I won't go into! Just to say I have them.

 

[AloeSvea]

Hej på dig, @Glyko.

When fasting/IFing - I drink coffee and tea, herb tea, water. Or if necessary - bone broth (if I need energy for instance), and coffee with cream for the same reason. Big thing to remind myself - drink heaps of water. Your body super needs it when fasting and IFing, more than usual, and one can get caught up with life and forget too easily I find. To one's peril!

When Very-Low-Calorie-Dieting (twice for two months a-piece), I gave a gave a - 3-5 calorie I think it was - count for all that plant matter pulversied in my tea pot and in the coffee perculator. And just measured and counted the cream and - I can't remember if I drank bone broth in those days. (i never want to count calories again - ever! Four months of my life was enough.) (But that is just me. I am not a numbers person unless I have to.)

 

[Dr Snoddy]

Two big mugs of strong black cafetiere coffee each morning.

 

[Jayne1983]

3 cups one at 7 o’clock one at 11 o’clock then one at 2 o’clock but heaped spoon fulls black coffee tho.

 

[aryavrielle]

i do work late night so take 2 coffee cup at 9:00 PM and sleep around 3 or 4 AM

 

[ErinKeegan]

Only one cup a day

 

[Pasha]

Down to 4 a day, each cup made with 8 grams coffee and 60 grams water via a macchinetta.

 

[iwilltouchyourcat]

One medium cup of black cafetière coffee in the morning for me - more then that and I get wicked acid reflux