Calories in latte

(Café) Latte – Origins and History

(Café) Latte is perhaps one of the types of coffee that is today at the very top of the list when it comes to every person’s favorite among the rest of the coffees out there. But, just like with a lot of edible and drinkable things out there, many people fail to take into account their calorie value, especially of those types of foods and beverages that are their favorites.

This kind of coffee was originally discovered in Italy, where today it is more commonly referred to “caffelatte.” Given its popularity, café latte has soon become an integral part of the every day diet of a very large number of people around the world.

Calories Count

Once you set yourself on a journey of finding the answer to this, there are two things you should know in order to be able to reach a satisfactory end. Namely, there are two vital components that have a say when it comes to increasing the amount of calories in (Café) Latte. The first vital component is the amount of milk poured into the coffee, and the second vital component being the amount of sugar that is put in coffee. In order to get a more complete picture, let us start with each vital component separately.

When it comes to milk, there actually exist two varieties of milk that are commonly added to café latte, that being skim and the full cream milk. As far as the overall coffee size is concerned, there also exist varieties in ways this is done – three of them to be more exact. We have small, medium and large. The first boils down to 300 ml, medium to 400 ml and large to 550 ml. Having the amount of added coffee in mind, it is about 20 ml per espresso shot. When this is translated in milk, we get the following amounts 280 ml, 360 ml and 490 ml for each of the three sizes. And, now that what we are interested in the most: full cream milk contains 65 calories per 100 ml of milk, whereas skimmed milk is a bit “weaker” on the calories and has around 35 per 100 ml of milk.

Small Latte – 280 ml / 182 calories (full cream milk)/ 98 calories (skim milk) Medium Latte – 360 ml/ 234 calories (full cream milk)/ 126 calories (skim milk) Large Latte – 490 ml/ 318 calories (full cream milk)/ 172 (skim milk)

When it comes to sugar, the second constituent, what is worth knowing is that it contains approximately 15 calories in one serving. In case you are a light coffee drinker and have one coffee per day, then you add up to your weekly calories intake as much as 105 calories, two coffees per day mean 420 calories more.