Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's midweek segment called Ask a Nutritionist.

I am Brittany Vincent, a registered and licensed dietitian.

On today's show brought to by nutritional weight and wellness, I will be answering a nutrition

question that we have received from one of our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners.

The question is, I have a question about coffee and espresso.

I have heard you say many times how many teaspoons of sugar are in the coffee house drinks.

Do you have any suggestions of ingredients to use when making coffee house drinks and copies at home?

This is a really great question.

Happy to answer this because I think it will help a lot of listeners out there.

Not only will it allow you to reduce your sugar intake, it's also going to save you some money, too.

So first, I want to just mention that when you're purchasing coffee or espresso beans,

you want to make sure that they are organic because coffee is one of the most chemically treated plants produced, meaning that

coffee that is not organic is just full of farm chemicals. So really making sure that your

coffee or espresso is organic is the best option. And then if you do drink decaf coffee, I would look for a decath that says that it has been

water processed.

If it hasn't been water processed, then a lot of chemicals are used to decaffeinate the coffee.

So choosing water process for decaf is best.

So let's dive into, for specifically, the listener's question. And I've got a lot of options here,

just depending on your preference. I think that for a lot of my clients, what has worked really well is just switching

to coffee with heavy whipping crane. And then if you want something sweet in there, you could

use stevia or monk fruit. There are flavored stevia drops out there.

So you could make your, make your coffee taste like caramel or chocolate or English

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