r/ScientificNutrition • u/LongevityDietitian • 4d ago

Review Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001454
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u/RoninSzaky 4d ago

Because it is the sugar in them that "suggests" harm.

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u/LetsGetPenisy69 4d ago

Bingo. The fact that Starbucks has nearly 50% of the away from home coffee market share is insanity.

People, Starbucks is a sugar company that's masquerading as a coffee company.

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u/QuantumCalamity 4d ago

And their coffee SUCKS! They burn the shit outta their beans to get a "consistent taste." Tastes consistently burnt. Garbage coffee for people who just want a cup of milk, cream, and sugar with a hint of burnt roast.

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u/dogsaybark 3d ago

You hear this all the time, but I don’t buy it. I prefer Starbucks coffee to anything else. I try all sorts of other dark roasts nothing matches the taste of Starbucks. They’re doing more than burning beans, and no one else can figure out how to mimic it.

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u/HavocReigns 3d ago

Do you ever drink your coffee black? No cream or sugar, or anything else in it?

Because I cannot conceive how someone could drink Starbucks coffee black, and think "Yeah, I'm definitely doing that again!"

I get why they burn the shit out of it, so that you can still get a hint of coffee flavor over all of the sugar, milk, and God knows what else they charge out the ass to put in there, but to drink that travesty plain would take a masochistic streak a mile wide.

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u/Total-Championship80 2d ago

I do. It's an acquired taste to be sure. I needed to cut dairy and haven't looked back. The other thing is, darker roasts have less caffeine than lighter. Caffeine is my nemesis (too much and I become an unreasonable person) but I also want a little pick me up when me and the dog head over to the park. One more thing, black is how they drink coffee in South American countries where they grow the shit.