The harm of coffee mate

Many people like to add coffee creamer when drinking coffee, which can indeed enhance the taste, but we need to understand what kind of substance coffee creamer is. First of all, it contains glucose syrup, and it also has certain additives, such as stabilizers, emulsifiers and anti-caking agents, etc. These additives are not good for the human body. When put together with coffee, it is easy to produce trans fatty acids, which can cause certain harm to the body.

The harm of coffee mate

1. The main function is to improve the taste. The main ingredient of "coffee companion" (commonly known as "creamer") is non-dairy creamer, which is a general term for vegetable oil powder. This type of product has a wide variety, different functions and a wide range of applications. Its production history can be traced back to the 1950s. It is now widely used in baked food ingredients, cold food ingredients, candy ingredients, and solid beverage ingredients. Non-dairy creamer is used in coffee as a coffee companion. Its main function is to improve the taste, provide balanced nutrition, and give the product a "milky feeling".

2. What is it?

The ingredients read: The first ingredient is "glucose syrup", which is a slightly sweet mixture produced by the hydrolysis of starch that can thicken the solution. The second ingredient is "hydrogenated vegetable oil", which is a semi-solid oil formed by artificial catalytic hydrogenation of soybean oil or rapeseed oil. The third ingredient is sodium caseinate, followed by three types of food additives: stabilizers, emulsifiers and anti-caking agents.

3. Producing unnatural "trans fatty acids"

After artificial catalytic hydrogenation, most of the natural unsaturated fatty acids in vegetable oils become saturated fatty acids, and the unsaturated fatty acids contained therein may also lose their natural cis structure, producing unnatural "trans fatty acids".

The nutrition community is convinced that trans fatty acids are more dangerous than saturated fatty acids because saturated fatty acids only increase blood lipids but do not lower beneficial high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Some of the latest studies have preliminarily shown that trans fatty acids may also increase the incidence of breast cancer and diabetes, and may affect children's growth and development and nervous system health. So it’s better to drink less.