The Good and the Bad of Ghee Coffee: A Balanced Look

Ghee coffee and bullet coffee are in trend these days. Drinking ghee mixed in coffee is called ghee coffee, which is being followed by many celebrities and diet watchers. Not only this, Rujuta Diwekar, a science and sports expert in India and a nutrition award winner dietician from the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, has also given her different reaction about ghee coffee. Well, drinking coffee and ghee mixed together can have many health benefits.

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Drinking some types of coffee is harmful for the digestive system and stomach. This is the reason why some people stay away from drinking coffee on an empty stomach. However, this problem can be avoided by drinking coffee mixed with ghee. Apart from this, it has many benefits. Like -

Ghee helps to eliminate the problem of gas or acidity in your stomach and the calcium present in it neutralizes other side effects. Therefore, drinking coffee mixed with ghee is beneficial.

Ghee also contains fats - butyric acid and omega-3s, which are good for your intestines and also for metabolism.

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According to dietitian Kara Herbstreet of Street Smart Nutrition, butter contains milk solids and water, which makes it opaque in appearance. Since ghee is cooked for a long time, it contains only butter fat. Ghee is usually yellow or golden in color and when melted, ghee becomes more translucent than butter. Apart from this, one teaspoon of ghee contains many types of nutrition. Which are as follows-

• Calories - 150 grams
• Fat - 17 grams
• Saturated fat - 10 grams
• Unsaturated fat - 7 grams
• Carbohydrates - 0 grams
• Sodium - 90 milligrams
• Sugar - 0 grams
• Fiber - 0 grams
• Protein - 0 grams
• Cholesterol - 25 milligrams

According to dietician Kara Herbstreet, ghee usually contains 60 to 62 percent saturated fat, the rest of which comes from monounsaturated fat.

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Dietician Kara Herbstreet says that because ghee contains more saturated fat than other foods, drinking coffee mixed with ghee will make you feel satisfied in the morning. However, many things eaten in breakfast are such that they contain more carbohydrates. They provide energy to your body, but they do not have as much energy as you need in the morning. Overall, drinking coffee mixed with ghee can be the right choice. Therefore, include a source of fat in your morning breakfast.

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Registered dietitian nutritionist Summer Yule says that many health claims have been made online about the side effects of ghee. Despite this, research done on it shows that these claims are limited.

It is important to note that ghee (like butter) contains a lot of calories and fat. Experts are still debating how saturated fat affects the body. According to the American Heart Association, we should take only 5 to 6 percent of our total daily calorie requirement from such sources.

An average person needs 2,000 calories through his diet. Out of which about 120 calories (about 13 grams) is saturated fat. Therefore, there will be no harm in eating a spoonful of ghee.

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Overall, if you like ghee coffee and want to include it in your breakfast, then there is no possibility of harm in it. Rather, ghee is beneficial for the body and drinking it mixed in coffee can be beneficial.