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.
Says “coffee is good but Starbucks is trash” while showing sugar-laden concoctions that can be served at most any chain coffee shop and plenty of indy shops will sell you whipped-cream-topped drinks aside from Starbucks, and not showing that you can indeed buy just a plain cup of coffee from Starbucks.
I’m not saying anyone should support union-busting Starbucks, but this is a crap post to single out Starbucks.
Same for chocolate.
Incorporating actual cocoa-dense dark chocolate into a regular part of my diet has been an absolute game changer. I have so much more energy and focus than I used to, I’m practically a morning person now lol
Seriously? In what amounts? I’m the opposite of a morning person, if the solution is this
tastysimple, I’m game!
Ypu are part of the problem with the internet. Please stop posting.
No u
Holy shit that is every comment from you.
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?
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”
They just told you. XD
Oh geez you’re right. Thanks for pointing that out. There’s a lot of stuff I need to block on lemmy.
Thanks for pointing that out
Nothing wrong with Starbucks coffee. It’s the mixed drinks with some coffee added that are a problem. They are mainly sugar water and other artificial stuff. Tea flavoured drinks are just as bad. Real tea or coffee cannot be mistaken for a pop or milkshake.
Nah, even their coffee tastes like shit.
They over roast it.
McDonalds is better, and it’s $1
You don’t like coffee. Over roasted and too bitter are comments from people who don’t like coffee.
I like coffee, and I avoid over-roasted beans and hate especially bitter coffee.
Over roasted: Burn the fuck out of your low-quality beans so that all flavor nuance is lost and every batch tastes identical.
Too bitter: Over extracted during brewing. It’s a skill issue, and even the darkest roasted beans can be prepared without excessive bitterness.
For me, an over-extracted coffee is never acceptable, but I don’t hate over-roasted beans if I’m at a breakfast diner.
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
What a load of absolute shite.
If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM. Seriously.
Got it, don’t drink cappuccino after 11, only espresso.
- Italians
I have a friend like this, not the time frame but his constant mantra of “I don’t drink coffee, but I have an espresso everyday”
“YSK that fruit is healthy. Gushers are not real fruit. It’s trash.”
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.
Try a pinch of salt.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Dude, there’s good coffee everywhere.
And I blame where you are for the garbage that is Starbucks.
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 sells espresso and Americanos.
No is is forcing you to go to Starbucks and buy a warm Dairy Queen sundae.
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. 😘
If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM.
It’s always before 11 AM somewhere.
This is why an irish coffee exists. It’s both before 11:00 somewhere and after 16:00 somewhere else.
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.
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
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!
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.
