Coffee is that food to which half of the world’s population feels addicted, but we can not only drink coffee alone, with milk, cream, cocoa, caramel or marshmallows. Is that there are countless drinks with which they can be mixed, including alcohol or fruit juice. No, we have not gone crazy, it is the truth and we give you all the details.
Drinking coffee is healthy, as long as we do not exceed 4 cups a day, since it would be an excess of caffeine in the body and can have very negative consequences such as tachycardia, insomnia, headache, etc. Apart from the fact that the coffee is very strong, and some stomachs can be resentful.
Throughout this text we are going to discover that there are infinite combinations for our daily coffee. It is not just about variation, but about improving nutritional values and adding extra vitamins, minerals and even a sweet touch that will help us face the first hours of the day.
Let us remember that we should not stay all morning with a single coffee in the stomach, we must give the body consistent foods that provide energy and nutrition, such as, for example, boiled egg, avocado, some bread, whole grains, homemade cake, butter, dairy products, fruits, oatmeal pancakes, etc.
Can it be mixed with alcohol?
Of course it can be mixed, another thing is that it feels good to us and another even more different is that it is recommended or not at the health level. There is a very famous drink called “carajillo” , which is black coffee with a shot of liquor that is usually whisky, cognac, brandy, anise, pomace or rum. It is very typical in Spain, and sometimes it is flambéed with a spoonful of sugar and even flavored with cinnamon, lemon or orange and is called café brûlée.
There are also other styles such as the coffee tonic, which is the coffee version of the gin and tonic . It is made by adding gin to cold filtered coffee. On the other hand, we also have Espresso Martini that is served in a Martini glass with espresso coffee with vodka, Kalhúa Mexican coffee liqueur, sugar syrup and a little crushed ice.
We cannot forget the Negroni, which is one of the most popular combinations. It is achieved by mixing Campari, coffee, black vermouth and gin in a wide glass with ice and lemon. Another very famous is the Irish coffee that tries to balance the flavor of hot American coffee with warm whiskey liqueur, then sugar and cream with cocoa or cinnamon, it depends.
Milk and fruit juices
Milk is the beverage that is most often combined with coffee, not only to soften the bitterness of the coffee, but also to increase its nutritional value. What nobody knows and nobody has told us is that mixing coffee and milk can be very indigestible. The tannins in coffee and the casein in milk damage the stomach and liver. Sometimes we use milk to lower the high pH of the coffee, but we already know that we can be doing more harm than good.
And yes, with fruit juices you can too. Some examples are cappuccino with strawberry, cold coffee with peach, coffee frappe with watermelon and caramel , hot coffee with melon juice and lemon slice, etc.
You have to be careful with these combinations, since some can be very indigestible for some people. For example, coffee and orange with a terrible mixture, and more if we add milk, since we can end up with vomiting and acute diarrhea.
infusions
Adding an infusion to coffee may seem crazy to us, but if we do it in a controlled way and without using ingredients that irritate us, it can be the perfect alarm clock to start each day with all the energy.
If we combine tea with coffee, the latter with a high caffeine content, the L-theanine in tea lowers the power of coffee and improves concentration in young people and adults. In addition, it does not upset or irritate us, like when we drink only coffee.
For example, the spreeze is to prepare an infusion and sweeten it with sugar to finally add a short and intense coffee. We also have the yuenyeung, originally from Hong Kong, which combines traditional black tea with condensed milk and when the mixture is already homogeneous, the concentrated coffee is added.
We can also add coffee to matcha tea, to green tea, to one with cinnamon, to an infusion of lemon, black, mint, etc. There are countless combinations and if we like them separately and they suit us well, they are usually tasty and safe mixtures, but it is better not to overdo it.
Chocolates and other sweets
Obviously, we can mix coffee with all kinds of chocolates, as well as marshmallows, caramel, ice cream and even snacks. The combinations seem to never end, but as we have said before, we must be careful, since we can end up in the emergency room due to acute gastroenteritis.
Coffee fits perfectly with all kinds of chocolates, whether white, black, with milk, with cookies, with everything we want. In fact, we encourage you to try it with an ounce of dark cocoa with ground hazelnuts. We are going to enjoy it very much, in addition, the ounce must melt at the same time that the cup is filled . Then we can put more hazelnut powder, or cream, or something similar that we like.
Another option is to add ice cream to the coffee, that is, a vanilla coffee ball. That will cheer us up on hot summer mornings. Another good combination is to add flavored milk and put a topping of nuts or caramel. This is not so much to drink, but to eat, and it is that coffee can be mixed with cream cheese to make mousse.
The point is to create a coffee that makes us happy, that we enjoy from the moment it is prepared and that is not an automatic process that we start because we need a shot of caffeine. Of course it must be a mixture that feels good to us and does not put our health at risk and we do not have a bad time.
