December 11th, 2009
Chart of the day: coffee vs fat
I love how the chart below shows how many calories there are per caffeine amount, e.g. a black caffeinated cup of coffee, as compared with other products, e.g. a glass of wine, french fries, a Big Mac and…the Starbucks products.
Be sure you don’t miss the following quote from this old post of mine, culled from the best – and only – book on fat that I’ve ever read, namely Fat – The Anthropology Of An Obsession:
Two new products, the Strawberries & Crème Frappuccino Blended Crème and the Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccino Blended Crème recently earned the “Food Porn of the Month Award” from the Center for the Science in the Public Interest’s (CPSI) Nutrition Action Healthletter. Past winners of this award include the Coconut Crème Frappuccino and the Vanilla Crème Frappucino. This award is not for the best hard-core food ad but for food products the CPSI considers to be impressively unhealthy. A 20-ounce venti of either of these products has over 600 calories and while the Strawberries & Crème has 7 grams of fat, the Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccino contains 16 grams of fat. (Venti means “really big” for those not fluent in American coffee café Italian). Neither drink actually contains coffee; the Nutrition Action Healthletter calls them “fattuccinos” – more like milk shakes than coffee.
