Many recent studies found coffee is healthy as fuck:
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/11/431036/coffee-safe-for-a-fib
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/coffee-may-improve-gut-health/
Some folks think it means Starbucks is good. NOPE.
Starbucks isn’t coffee. It’s actually trash:
Real coffee is this:
Also:
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Tea is also great and healthy. Tea is not addictive.
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If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM. Seriously.
Switching over to black coffee last year was tough at first, but now it is sooooo much better. I actually kinda dislike it with sweeteners and creamers now.
as someone from brazil, the whole concept of american gourmet coffee scares me, my grandma puts too much sugar on her coffee but americans are something else
that aint coffee, thats fucking high caffeine milkshake
You won’t like Vietnamese coffee then. I’m open to it, but in very small amounts. It’s very sweet and they add lots of condensed milk. In the end, it doesn’t really resemble coffee that much.
Dude if you can try Colombian coffee, don’t need no gourmet just buy what you can find. I love sello Rojo, it’s less strong than pilão but has more taste.
As for American coffee, the things I tried when travelling didn’t taste like coffee at all. Everywhere I go that has this American style coffee capsules I have to put 2 expressos to even find the coffee smell, and that’s from a Brazilian that thinks pilão is strong.
Capsules?
You mean that stupid machine with the pods? Yea, fuck that, its not good. And its expensive per serving.
Even plain drip coffee is better than that crap if you buy good coffee.
It’s just hot Dairy Queen.
No idea why women are attracted to it.
Go sit at a Starbucks with your “just a plain, regular coffee, none of this Frappuccino half-caff double-whip soy latte crap” order. You’ll see plenty of men grabbing the same coffee milkshakes as women. They’re all attracted to it the same way they’re all attracted to milkshakes: for being a tasty drink. The only difference is some men are embarrassed to admit it’s fine to enjoy a Frappuccino. Or a sweet cocktail, for that mater. And yet, if you make a sweet, fruity, caffeine drink but put it in a scary container, suddenly it’s manly to drink Monster, right?
It’s really not that complicated.
Moving to the Pacific North West helped. Compared to the test of the US, we actually have good coffee haha
I’m sorry to post basically an ad, but I get my coffee from an LA based roaster called YES PLZ and it’s incredible. I do live in the PNW tho lol
Dude, there’s good coffee everywhere.
And I blame where you are for the garbage that is Starbucks.
okay that’s cheating. I have a damn fine coffee shop i drink at when i’m feeling rich here. We were visiting the inlaws in Puyallup and omg. even the hotel coffee i did not want to leave.
Yep. Even the drive through stripper coffee ain’t half bad.
you know funny thing the wife did not suggest going to one of those with her relatives
Her loss.
Try a pinch of salt.
Starbucks sells espresso and Americanos.
No is is forcing you to go to Starbucks and buy a warm Dairy Queen sundae.
Don’t yuck people’s yums
if you’d like i can help you find better coffee
Can we yuck their premature deaths? 🤔
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around
“YSK that fruit is healthy. Gushers are not real fruit. It’s trash.”
Soook much misinformation… In no particular order:
- Starbucks is a brand, not any specific beverage or even type of drink. You sound like a boomer saying “a Nintendo”
- You don’t even try to give a reason for your arbitrary 11 AM cutoff time. Zero sources as well.
- YSK is for facts, not biased opinions.
- Almost every coffee shop that sells coffee also sells sweetened and frozen coffee drinks, with similar caloric/sugar content.
- Your own link clarifies that the right amount of coffee is good for you, an important distinction.
- Saying Starbucks is not coffee doesn’t make sense, but it’s also blatantly false. Their coffee-based drinks are obviously made with “real coffee” and it’s easily provable. Just like every other coffee shop.
- There’s no sources for what you say about tea.
- Saying a brand is trash is 100% opinion. Plenty of people don’t like them, but putting that in the post shows how your prejudiced opinion shouldn’t be listened to.
- There’s no source for the cherry-picked drink contents.
- Saying a brand is good or bad is (again) complete opinion, so a conclusion can’t be reached.
- Opinions aren’t facts. My opinion is your post is shit.
I agree with everything except for this part:
Almost every coffee shop that sells coffee also sells sweetened and frozen coffee drinks, with similar caloric/sugar content.
You wouldn’t find another coffee shop in my city that sells anything comparable to the sugar-milk-coffee drinks from Starbucks. An affogato or caffè freddo probably has less than half the amount of sugar. They have pastries that dissolve your enamel within three bites though.
But to reiterate, wrong community for this post.
The difference between medicine and poison is the dosage.
- Your own link clarifies that the right amount of coffee is good for you, an important distinction.
I guess, but that’s reductive. Too much of anything can kill you.
Starbucks intentionally over roasts their beans well past the ideal roasting point. They do this to ensure a consistent flavor across locations, but to me it just tastes like shitty burnt coffee.
At the end of the day, Starbucks is a coffee chain in name only. Their menu is largely milk-based and many of their products happen to have some coffee in them, so I guess it doesn’t matter too much if the coffee component is sub-par.
They have light roasts. You can order one.
Maybe go for the blonde instead of the French roast.
You realize they sell more than one kind of coffee… Right?
Coffee without cream should be a sin. 😘
Everything here is false equivalency. Starbucks sells regular coffee, it looks just like your AI pics you include, and the calorie count is going to be quite low. Yes, sugary drinks are sugary. You can also get lattes without any syrup in them, and while you can certainly argue that Starbucks beans aren’t the best in the industry, their lattes are pretty similar to lattes at any coffee shop.
This whole post is like “You shouldn’t go to McDonalds because they have a mcdouble cheeseburger with 1000 calories in it and you could make a salad at home.”
Also, I’d like to acknowledge that this sub is called “You Should Know”, which to me implies it should be about important educational facts, not opinion pieces.
I don’t like Starbucks, but Mackies have a very solid coffee here.
Though nothing trumps even cheap beans and a little aeropress or a v60 at home.Fresh-ground beans make SO much of a difference. It doesn’t even matter much how it’s made, slow drip, french press, who cares.
Regular Starbucks coffee is vile, it’s only drinkable when you mask the flavour with junk.
It also says to drink tea, tea is not addictive.
Some tea contains caffeine, caffeine is addictive, so some teas are addictive.
What happens after 11am?
Have you seen Gremlins? That, but only after sunset.
Ypu are part of the problem with the internet. Please stop posting.
No u
Holy shit that is every comment from you.
Thanks for pointing that out
Lemmy is full of shit people actively making the internet worse and more divisive. Sticking your head in the dirt isnt going to change anything
so, with respect, why are you here then?
They just told you. XD
What exactly have i posted to divide people. Where did i tell people that what they do is poison.
reread the comment i replied to because you don’t seem to have understood my question.
This is part of the problem. I did answer your question but you were incapable of recognizing it. Im here because “sticking your head in the dirt isnt going to change anything”
Oh geez you’re right. Thanks for pointing that out. There’s a lot of stuff I need to block on lemmy.
You should know that there’s vested interest from massive drinks companies to push “caffeine is healthy” while selling caffeinated drinks with unhealthy levels of caffeine.
All of the “a glass of redwine is healthy”-studies tuned out to be paid for by alcohol companies.
We know how bad lobbying is.
So don’t use this as an excuse to drink a half a gallon of energy drinks in the mornings and think it’s positive for your health.
Ofc I’m not denying some moderate doses of drinks not filled with other shit could be healthy, I’m too lazy to go actually read the study right now.
Breaking news: caffeine is DRUGS people!
This is not sarcasm; it is a psychoactive stimulant on par with coke and amphetamines. Your heart and kidneys do not know what drug schedules are.
Enjoy your psychoactive drugs responsibly kids. And remember that enjoying responsibly =/= deluding yourself into thinking they’re healthy.
I agree.
But I must point out US drug scheduling is political, not scientific.
heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), methaqualone, and peyote.
Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
The only two actually more dangerous ones there are methaqualone and heroin. But you’d have to be kinda silly to say cannabis is schedule one and cocaine schedule two, that cannabis has “no accepted medical use”. And also strong opiates definitely have accepted medical use.
War on drugs is bs.
pppsssst: that’s why your body can’t tell the difference!
it is a psychoactive stimulant on par with coke
That’s… only true in the most pedantic of ways. The same kind of comparison would say that a supersonic fighterjet is on par with my inline skates, because both are modes of transport
IMO Starbucks drinks are sugary poison, and even their regular black coffee is just not good. Not to mention their questionable ethics.
I buy whole coffee beans from a local roaster but a few times I’ve run out and walked to the Starbucks around the corner to purchase a small package of whole beans.
When I grind them they seem very oily and almost too soft somehow. That might be normal (I really don’t know) but for whatever reason it gives me heartburn (which I rarely have).
They’re over roasted, which makes them crap.
I have a couple local coffee shops that roast their own and boy, is it a thousand times better than Starbucks crap.
A thousand times zero is zero.
Starbucks is just poisonous, big time. On top of that, their logo is a pagan goddess (a fertility goddess, oddly enough), which tells you their items are witchcraft.
For coffee, I hadn’t tried it, but I heard bulletproof coffee is good. To make it “bulletproof”, just add butter and MCT oil to your normal coffee. I tend to drink tea a lot, to be fair.
If you think the logo is the problem then you gotta reevaluate your priorities.
You know cream has MCTs… Butter does as well.
Starbucks is just poisonous, big time. On top of that, their logo is a pagan goddess (a fertility goddess, oddly enough), which tells you their items are witchcraft.
their logo is a pagan goddess (a fertility goddess, oddly enough), which tells you their items are witchcraft.
If people want to know why the world is the way it is, look to “logic” like this.
Damn this comment made me laugh hard.
I would like to hear more about Starbucks and witchcraft, please.
Don’t waste your time unless you enjoy fiction. I’m in no way defending Starbucks or their logo, but everything they just claimed about the logo is made up bullshit.
Erm, not that I’m a fan of Starbucks at all but they absolutely have decent real coffe that has zero sugar in it. Several blends in fact.
They do not have decent coffee.
It always has a burnt aftertaste IMO.
That’s because they burn it. It’s a branding thing. Massive companies demand uniformity in flavor. McDonald’s puts huge amounts of effort into making sure that a big mac in Maine tastes exactly the same as a big mac in LA.
Coffee beans are unpredictable, though. Beans from the same farm from the same crop can taste different month to month. So to make it uniform they overroast (burn) the beans.
Amazing. Never thought of this explanation but it makes sense.
It also helps keep some of the coffee flavor when you put in a quart of milk and sugar and flavoring.
Eew. No.
Massive companies demand uniformity in flavor. McDonald’s puts huge amounts of effort into making sure that a big mac in Maine tastes exactly the same as a big mac in LA.
this is also why in-n-out expanded very slowly for a while. it’s about making sure your supply chain can handle the growth and you can train the employees to keep the culture of the chain.
when they expanded too fast, their burgers got soggy. they haven’t fixed that.
And added caffeine to make it more addictive. And union busting.
It’s ok coffee. It’s like Chikfila - in 1998, when your mall got its first Starbucks, it was head and shoulders above the other options, which were 7/11 and IHOP. However, now that chicken sandwiches are taken seriously, basically everyone who tries beats whatever soggy shit CFA has on offer.
That is absolutely coffee, but iwhether its decent is subjective. Both times I went to starbucks it wasn’t much better than gasstation coffee.
I should have qualified - decent as in quality in comparison to the other fast food options. 😄
McDonalds coffee is way better, and it’s $1.
I will never again have Starbucks (and haven’t since about 2010 - its just that bad).
Starbucks uses local imports. The biggest problem is that they burn the shit out of the beans to normalize it down to the same flavor. So, the big appeal of using locally-sourced beans is wiped away by the way the need for a consistent “flavor”.
That’s why Starbucks coffee tastes like shit.
The pike roast is the only one that is halfway decent in a pinch. It’s their “light” roast.
Yeah, it’s not the worst, but it’s still shit compared to any other light roast. It’s good for Starbucks, but that’s a low bar. They often don’t even have it available (or at least they often didn’t, but I never went often, and I haven’t been to one in many years).
ah, i didn’t know it had a name. I always go light or medium, just enough oat milk to change the color, and i’m happy enough at Sbux
They have blonde roasts.
Wtf are you on about?
I personally love a good French roast.
You sound like my stupid cunt of a mom that does coffee enemas. Bitching about the flavor of coffee when her colon doesn’t even have taste buds. Wtf.
Local beans? Does it mean they don’t sell coffee in Canada and Europe?
They certainly have non sugary drinks, whether they’re decent is another question.
yeah, they’re better than the coffee that’s been sitting all week in the urn in the outreach hall whatever the name is i forget at the church i play music at. that shit’s nasty but free coffee’s free coffee
No, even their regular coffee is awful.
McDonalds coffee is better than Starbuck’s, and its $1.
McDonald’s coffee?
Bro how much crack you smoking?
i don’t think caffeine is healthy.
Worst part is the addiction/tolerance.
Waking up every day feeling like dead meat until that first sip then chasing that all day but it never is as nice as just not drinking that crap.
But if you’re used to it, many say it’s even emotionally supportive. True addiction territory.
I’m addicted to caffeine, so I might be biased.
However, studies show it’s not a bad addiction
Do you want to give up caffeine? If you do, you can do it. I did it. Took me about eight months. I feel better now, no “don’t talk to me before I’ve had my coffee”, no 3pm slump. But that was my choice, and as addictions go, I don’t know if it’s really that bad?
No study on caffeine wants to acknowledge the elephant in the room: Half the population has undiagnosed ADHD, and people use caffeine to self-medicate, usually unaware of why they are doing it.
Fair enough. There is evidence that coffeine can increase anxiety.
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/caffeine-making-you-anxious-5-things-know
I would love to switch to tea. I just love the taste of black coffee.
In case you think about switching to tea to avoid caffeine, you should know tea still has caffeine in it.
The most common sources of caffeine for human consumption are the tea leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant and the coffee bean, the seed of the Coffea plant.
Starbucks can eat a giant bag of dicks.
But you can buy “just coffee” there and even though it tastes like it was filtered through my ass crack, it’s no different than other coffee.
Where does one even find such a glorious bag of dicks?
Filtered through your personal ass crack? Sounds divine.
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