Organic Coffee with Chicory
Organic coffee is good for you and typically an organic coffee is high quality Arabica as well. Chicory is a time honored coffee substitute that you can obtain in organic form. Why would you want organic coffee with chicory? First let’s look at the benefits of chicory. The Organic Facts website discusses the benefits of chicory.
Chicory is a woody, herbaceous plant that has a wealth of health benefits, including the ability to ease digestive problems, prevent heartburn, reduce arthritis pains, detoxify the liver and gallbladder, prevent bacterial infections, boost the immune system, and reduce the chance of heart disease. It is also a natural sedative, and can protect against kidney stones, and benefit attempts to lose weight. All in all, this small plant is a powerful addition to any diet.
Chicory increases bile flow from the liver which is how it improves digestion. This increases the breakdown of fats that we eat. In addition chicory contains inulin which helps keep the bacterial flora in the intestine healthy. And chicory like many herbs is high in antioxidants which puts it right in the same ballpark as coffee as an antioxidant source.
Antioxidants help prevent the damage caused by excessive oxidation and to a degree inhibit the aging process. When an oxidative reaction brought on by disease gets going it produces free radicals that start chain reactions which in turn cause cell and tissue damage. The human body has or uses antioxidants to control this situation. Natural means of controlling oxidation include vitamins C and E as well as glutathione. It is low levels of antioxidants that can lead to a condition referred to as oxidative stress and resultant damage to cells in the body. Organic coffee antioxidants are in the same class of molecules that help reduce oxidation.
We have previously written the plant has also been used as a coffee substitute.
Chicory coffee is common in Southeast Asia, South Africa and the Southern USA, especially New Orleans. Elsewhere Chicory has been used when coffee is not available such as during the Second World War in Europe and everywhere outside of coffee producing countries in the Great Depression. Strong blond Belgian style ales often contain chicory to augment the hops.
Making Organic Coffee with Chicory
You can certainly buy coffee, chicory or a mixture of both. But if you want to do it right, how do you make chicory coffee?
Starting with fresh chicory root, preferably from your own garden, pick and clean.
Cut into slices and dry in the sun or in the oven on low temperature.
Roast the chicory in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for at least half an hour or longer for a “darker” roast.
Grind the roasted chicory chips, twice as they do not grind as well as coffee.
Grind your whole bean organic roasted coffee.
Make the first batch with half coffee and half chicory.
Then adjust to taste in later batches.
Chicory has a chocolate and malt-like aroma and flavor. It is slightly more acidic than coffee. Drink your organic coffee with chicory and think of New Orleans.
Do Coffee Stains Come Out?
You are in a hurry as you leave the coffee shop on the way to work and some of your coffee misses your mouth and ends up on your blouse, shirt, skirt or pants. Do coffee stains come out? That is the primary question provided that the coffee was not too hot in which case your concern would be second and third degree burns. But let’s get back to the stains.
Removing Coffee Stains
The first thing to do if you spill coffee on a garment is to rinse it in cold water rubbing gently. Repeat two or three times as needed. This advice is from the Cleanipedia web site. Here is the rest of what they say about how to remove coffee stains.
Coffee can be one of the most troublesome stains to get out of clothing and carpets, but there are several strategies you can use to treat the stain. Here’s a step-by-step approach to getting rid of a coffee stain. Depending on the age and size of your stain, more vigorous effort may be required, so simply follow each step and repeat until it’s gone.
If you cannot immediate remove the garment, blot the stain with a paper towel or tissue to remove excess liquid.
Then rinse as able with cold water for as long as 5 minutes running water from the back of the stain to the front. Rub gentle every minute or so.
Gently rub a small quantity of laundry detergent into the stain and massage. Rinse after five minutes.
A backup approach if the stain remains is to mix white vinegar with detergent, test on a corner of the fabric to make sure that it does not discolor and rub into the stain. Scrub with a brush and rinse.
Finally if nothing has worked so far try a stain stick like Persil but again test on a corner of the fabric first.
The last choice is to take the garment to a dry cleaner.
At all costs to not put the garment with any residual stain in a dryer or in the sun because heat will set the stain, permanently.
Don’t Spill in the First Place
Coffee stains in the work place are enough of an issue that Bloomberg published a review of the best spill-proof travel mug. If you want to avoid coffee stains in the first place consider this approach.
Stainless steel travel mugs can be the perfect workplace complement: The simple vessels promise to keep their cargo both warm and away from clothes and keyboards. We subjected five popular models to a battery of tests designed to simulate years of real-world use and abuse by workers.
We tested four of the bestselling and highest-rated travel mugs on Amazon-the Zojirushi SM-YAE48 Travel Mug, the Thermos Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel Double Wall Direct Drink Bottle, the Contigo Autoseal West Loop Stainless Travel Mug with Easy-Clean Lid, and the Oxo Stainless Steel LiquiSeal Travel Mug. Then we threw in a wild card entry that claims to prevent virtually all knockover spills; The Mighty Mug Solo SS.
A top of the line spill proof mug runs from $20 to $50 but these high quality items last virtually forever and if you figure in the cost of occasional dry cleaning or buying new garments when the stain don’t come out the mug is worth it!
Organic Alternative to Coffee Mate
If you like a little cream in your coffee but cannot tolerate dairy products you may be using Coffee Mate, a non-dairy creamer that has been around since 1961. What is in this product and can you get an organic alternative to Coffee Mate? According to Organic Authority, Coffee Mate contains the following:
Corn syrup solids: this is mostly the sugar dextrose derived from corn starch
Partially hydrogenated soybean or cottonseed oil: hydrogen is added to these oils to make them solid and making them trans fats
Sodium caseinate: this is a milk protein but does not contain lactose so it is a dairy product that is digestible by those with lactose intolerance
Mono and diglycerides: these are emulsifying agents that extend shelf life typically used in foods that contain trans fats
Dipotassium phosphate: this is a water-soluble salt that prevents Coffee Mate from coagulating.
Carrageenan: a red seaweed extract gelatin
Is there a simpler and organic alternative to this product?
Organic Alternative to Coffee Mate and Other Coffee Creamers
If you would like to avoid putting cream in your coffee and avoid all of the junk that comes in non-dairy creamers here are three alternatives.
Coconut Milk
We wrote recently about organic coffee with coconut oil.
Food Dive writes about Café Whip, a coconut whipped cream!
Rich’s Products Corporation introduced the first whipped topping made with coconut milk, according to Perishable News. It contains coconut milk, coconut oil and sunflower oil.
The new topping, called Cafe Whip, is vegan and kosher pareve. It is made with sugar, has no hydrogenated oils, and is lower fat than sweetened and flavored heavy whipping cream.
This coconut milk topping could have many uses, but it was developed for coffee shops.
Look for organic and you have a healthy alternative to Coffee Mate.
Almond Milk
Almond milk is rich in vitamin B-12 as well as vitamins A and D. You can typically find this in the dairy aisle or buy organic almonds and make your own.
Soak the almonds overnight or up to 2 days
Drain and rinse the almonds
Combine the almonds and water in a blender
Blend at the highest speed for 2 minutes
Strain the almonds
Press all the almond milk from the almond meal
Sweeten to taste
Refrigerate almond milk
Lactose Free Milk
And if your problem with drinking milk is a lactose intolerance, like three fourths of the people on earth, you can get organic lactose free milk as an organic alternative to Coffee Mate. Also you can buy lactase tablets at the drug store and take one with your coffee with cream or milk, organic of course.
Organic Coffee
And if you are looking for an organic alternative to Coffee Mate make sure that your coffee is safe organic coffee.
Coffee used to be grown in the shade and commonly in forested areas. Historically the environment and spacing out the coffee plants took care of much of the problem of insects and plant diseases. However, new coffee strains were introduced which can grow in the full sun. With the use of synthetic fertilizers the grower produces more coffee. This also erodes the soil and leaves synthetic fertilizer residue in the coffee bean. Crowding of plants brings about more plant diseases and pests which growers commonly treat with fungicides and pesticides, which also end up on the coffee bean. Safe organic coffee, on the other hand is grown and certified to be grown without use of pesticides, herbicides, or synthetic fertilizers.
Buy organic coffee and an organic alternative to Coffee Mate.
Did Someone Just Hack Your Coffee Maker?
We have just come across another excellent reason to use a French press or traditional methods as with Turkish coffee. Computer World tells us about when coffee makers attack.
It was shocking to learn that the recent distributed denial-of-service attack of the nation’s internet infrastructure via DNS provider Dyn was aided and abetted by a hijacked army of products from the internet of things. It is thought to be the first DoS attack to rely overwhelmingly on a lot of “dumb” appliances that have little processing power of their own but are connected to the internet. That’s right, the internet was crippled because our coffee makers, washing machines and refrigerators were recruited to bring it down.
Hackers managed to take control of more than 100,000 dumb devices like your coffee maker or even your toothbrush, although for the life of us we cannot fathom why a toothbrush would need internet access! Nevertheless the hackers pulled off a so-called denial of service attack by having 100,000 or so devices request access to the internet taking down an internet service company in the process. If someone just hacked your coffee maker what can you do? Here are three simple answers.
Keep the Coffee Maker and Change Your Password
If you bought a single serving coffee maker that you could access via you smart phone to start making the coffee as you are parking the car, maybe you want to keep the device. The answer then is to routinely change your username and password for the device. Read the instructions that came with the machine or contact the manufacturer if you need help. Because most of us are not storing nuclear weapons secrets or passwords to our bank account on the coffee maker we might have thought that no one cared. The quick answer is changing your password and username.
French Press
You really can make great coffee with a French press.
A French press is a coffee pot, typically glass, with a fine wire mesh plunger. Coffee grounds are added to the pot followed by hot water. The coffee is allowed to steep for a few minutes and then stirred briefly. Then the plunger is pushed down through the coffee. The bulk of the grounds are pushed to the bottom of the pot.
When you use a French press the coffee steeps just like tea. Because no filter is used you get the oils and particulate matter that contains so much of the aroma and flavor of the coffee. And the temperature of the coffee remains the same throughout the process until you pour into your coffee cup.
This method does not involve computer chips, access to the internet, usernames or passwords. And it makes great coffee.
French Press Coffee Maker
Exotic Coffees
We have written about different ways to make coffee from around the world. None of these involves the internet or passwords and usernames. For example, Turkish coffee can be fun to make and is delicious as well.
Ibrik for Turkish Coffee
Ibrik for Turkish Coffee
Here is the short and sweet approach to making Turkish coffee.
- When making coffee Turkish style grind the coffee beans even finer than you would for making espresso.
- Make Turkish coffee in a small pot with a cup of water
- A small sauce pan will do although Turks use an ibrik (see image)
- Add sugar
- Plain: no sugar
- Little sugar: add half a level teaspoon to the coffee
- Medium: add a level teaspoon to the coffee
- A lot of sugar: add two level teaspoons to the coffee
- Bring the water with sugar to a boil and remove from heat
- Add coffee and stir until coffee sinks
- Some add a pod of cardamom as well (optional)
- Heat again slowly until coffee boils and foam appears on the top
- So not stir as this disturbs the foam
- Do not boil too long as prolonged boiling gives the coffee a burnt taste
- Remove from heat briefly and then heat again
- Repeat one more time
- Pour coffee directly from the ibrik or your sauce pan into demitasse cups similar to what you would use for espresso
- Ideal Turkish coffee has a lot of thick foam (think of Cuban coffee) and the person who gets the cup with the most foam has the best coffee.
Get back to the basics of making coffee and forget about internet access for your coffee maker.
Organic Coffee with Antioxidants in It
Coffee is good for you and organic coffee is better. The healthiest part of organic coffee is the antioxidants in it. What are organic coffee antioxidants and why are they good for you?
Scientifically an antioxidant is a molecule that inhibits the cell damage and cell death in human cells caused by oxidative breakdown of other molecule in the cell. Oxidation is a factor in sickness and aging. Antioxidants help prevent the damage caused by excessive oxidation and to a degree inhibit the aging process. When an oxidative reaction brought on by disease gets going it produces free radicals that start chain reactions which in turn cause cell and tissue damage. The human body has or uses antioxidants to control this situation. Natural means of controlling oxidation include vitamins C and E as well as glutathione. It is low levels of antioxidants that can lead to a condition referred to as oxidative stress and resultant damage to cells in the body. Organic coffee antioxidants are in the same class of molecules that help reduce oxidation.
An example of a good antioxidant in organic coffee is methylpyridium. It is created during the roasting process from the chemical trigonelline in green coffee beans. It turns out that methylpyridium increases the activity of phase II enzymes in the human body and these enzymes are believed to protect against colon cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in the USA.
Other Reasons to Drink Organic Coffee with Antioxidants in It
Organic coffee with antioxidants in it helps prevent degenerative diseases as we noted in our article Forget Your Alzheimer’s and Drink Your Coffee.
Regular and healthy organic coffee both contain caffeine and a number of other useful ingredients, one or more of which appears to reduce levels of beta amyloid in the brain. A study that the South Florida researchers published in the Journal of Neuroscience shows that Caffeine protects Alzheimer’s mice against cognitive impairment and reduces brain beta-amyloid production. The coffee drinking mice kept their memories! In addition, researchers found that high coffee consumption in mice raised levels of granulocyte colony stimulating factor, a chemical that has reduced levels in Alzheimer’s patients.
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s which coffee also helps prevent develop over time. Research has shown that drinking just one cup of coffee a day over the years is associated with a reduced incidence of Alzheimer’s and a lower risk of Parkinson’s as well. Add to this the significantly reduced incidence of Type II diabetes in coffee drinkers. With both Alzheimer’s and Type II diabetes the more coffee you drink the greater reduction you will see in incidence of these diseases. It all has to do with organic coffee with antioxidants in it.
Why Organic Coffee?
Organic coffee is typically high quality Arabica coffee. And because organic coffee is grown using sustainable agricultural practices it contains no pesticide, herbicide or fungicide residue. Organic coffee is grown with minimal use of synthetic fertilizers and has been shown to save you from more than 150 contaminants commonly seen in regular coffee.
Organic Coffee Market in the USA
The USA consumes more coffee than any other nation on the planet. Of the nations that drink the most coffee the USA ranks first followed by Germany, Japan and France. Of course the Dutch, Fins and Swedes drink more per capita but their populations are much smaller. How much of US consumption is organic coffee? The USA consumes nearly half of all organic coffee that is grown. The portion of US coffee imports that is certified as organic or fair trade is 16% of all green coffee according to Trends in Trade of Certified Coffee. The value of US organic coffee sales in the USA passed a billion dollars a decade ago according to the Organic Consumers Association.
Organic Coffee and K Cups
A substantial portion of US coffee comes from single servings, K cups or similar products. The efficiency of making just one cup is very attractive. And you can get organic coffee in single serving cups as well. But we asked this question last year, does organic coffee in a K cup make sense?
Keurig Green Mountain is coming out with a new product line, organic coffee in K cups. Our question is if organic coffee in a K cup makes any sense. People drink organic coffee because they like the taste and aroma of high quality coffee, they like the idea of a pure produce free of unnecessary contaminates and because they want to help protect the environment. Putting organic coffee in a K cup raises some questions but first a little about the new Keurig product line.
Billions of K cups go into landfills each year. If part of the reason you drink organic coffee is that you want to protect the environment then even organic coffee in a Keurig K cup is a problem. But there was a solution. Keurig also made refillable K cups under the brand, My K Cup. You could also refill these with any coffee of your choice, which would commonly be cheaper than the coffee from Keurig. Unfortunately that changed.
Unfortunately Keurig stopped that because they were losing business.
Coffee at the Coffee Shop
You can get organic coffee at shops like Starbucks which buys about 2 million pounds of organic green coffee beans each year. They also note that much of the high quality coffee that they buy is grown using organic methods but the grower does not go to the trouble of certifying because they sell their whole crop to Starbucks. Thus you are often getting organic coffee but not certified organic coffee at your local coffee shop.
Who Drinks Organic Coffee?
We found out in our article, Do Millennials Drink Coffee, that this age group prefers higher quality coffee.
It turns out that millennials do not necessarily drink more coffee than other generations of Americans, but they like good coffee and are willing to pay for it. In a world in which investments in the stock market and real estate have bottomed out right before our eyes, many millennials are “investing” in quality of life which includes better food and beverage experiences.
It is good news for the organic coffee business that this younger age group likes the product.
Should You Refrigerate Organic Coffee Beans?
Coffee is good for you and organic coffee is even better. The positive health effects of coffee primarily come from the antioxidants. And coffee is the biggest source of antioxidants in the foods and beverages that we eat both because coffee contains these great chemicals and because we drink so much coffee. In order to preserve the antioxidants in coffee should you refrigerate organic coffee beans? The answer is an emphatic no. Here is why.
What Should Go in the Frig or Freezer and What Should Stay Out
Foods that will spoil at air temperature like meats and poultry go in the freezer for long term storage and in the frig for a day or so. The food that you eat comes out, gets thawed and gets cooked. There is no spoilage, no food poisoning and everyone is happy. What you do not do with meat or poultry is to continue to repeatedly remove from the freezer or frig, allow to warm up, and then freeze again. You are risking food poisoning and to a degree are degrading nutritional value. The later issue is what applies to coffee as well as tomatoes, watermelon, onions and garlic.
Condensation Is an Enemy of Organic Coffee Antioxidants
Organic green coffee beans retain their freshness and antioxidants for up to two years if stored in a cool and dry place. Roasted coffee beans are good for up to six months, also if stored in a cool and dry place. If you have the exact quantity that you intend to grind and use to make coffee on the spot you could store that quantity in an air tight bag in the freezer or frig. What you cannot do without degrading antioxidants and losing freshness is to store a five pound bag of green, roasted or especially roasted and ground coffee in the frig or freezer. Then every time you take out the coffee and remove some to make coffee the warmer air in the room will cause condensation on the coffee beans. And it is this condensation that serves to degrade antioxidants and freshness.
Worse with Roasted and Ground Coffee
The effect of condensation on coffee antioxidants is quickest where the warm, moist air touches to cold coffee. If you are storing ground coffee first of all the best you can hope for by storing in a cool and dry location is six weeks before all the freshness and antioxidant value is gone. If you repeatedly cause condensation by removing from the frig and putting back in every little grain of roasted and ground coffee is effected each and every time. At least with whole beans the condensation effect only works on the outside of the bean and needs to work its way inward with time.
Healthy Coffee Does Not Go in the Frig or Freezer
If you want to enjoy the health benefits of coffee and make the taste and aroma last, do not refrigerate or freeze your coffee. Store your coffee in a cool and dry place in a sealed jar. This means do not put the coffee in the cupboard over the stove where the heat and humidity from cooking will negate everything that we have just said!
Organic Green Coffee with Ginger
Have you ever had ginger coffee? If not, here is a recipe and a bit of information about organic green coffee with ginger.
Ginger Coffee Recipe
Ingredients:
6 tablespoons ground organic coffee
1 tablespoon grated orange peel
1 tablespoon chopped crystallized ginger
½ tablespoon ground cinnamon
6 cups of water
Prepare:
Heat water to boiling
Combine coffee, orange peel, ginger and cinnamon and place in cloth filter over container
Pour slightly less than boiling temperature water over coffee grounds
Pour into mugs and garnish with cinnamon sticks, whipped cream and or more orange peel
This concoction is a taste treat. It is also good for you. Both ginger and organic coffee have a host of good effects on your health.
Health Benefits of Ginger
According to whfoods.org ginger provides a lot of health benefits.
Historically, ginger has a long tradition of being very effective in alleviating symptoms of gastrointestinal distress. In herbal medicine, ginger is regarded as an excellent carminative (a substance which promotes the elimination of intestinal gas) and intestinal spasmolytic (a substance which relaxes and soothes the intestinal tract). Modern scientific research has revealed that ginger possesses numerous therapeutic properties including antioxidant effects, an ability to inhibit the formation of inflammatory compounds, and direct anti-inflammatory effects.
According to this site ginger is good for gastrointestinal relief and especially help with morning sickness in pregnancy. Its anti-inflammatory effects are helpful for arthritis sufferers. There is evidence that ginger may inhibit the growth of colon cancer cells and may kill ovarian cancer cells. Like organic coffee, ginger has been shown to boost immune function as well.
Health Benefits of Organic Coffee
We have written many times about the health aspects of organic coffee.
Antioxidants are responsible for the positive health aspects of organic coffee. Antioxidants in organic coffee are naturally occurring chemicals that impede the breakdown or oxidation of other chemicals. By impeding oxidation in various chemical and enzyme systems of the human body organic coffee antioxidants produce a number of positive health effects. For example, a naturally occurring antioxidant, trigonelline is found in coffee beans. When good organic coffee is roasted this chemical breaks down forming another useful antioxidant, methylpyridium. Recent scientific research shows us that methylpyridium increases the activity of phase II enzymes in the human body and higher levels of phase II enzymes are protective against the development of colon cancer. Thus the health aspects of organic coffee include the fact that more organic coffee can lead to less colon cancer.
Other health aspects of organic coffee include the fact that antioxidants have the ability to protect nerve cells and even reduce the incidence of diabetes. Research tells us that coffee drinkers can have an up to fifty percent reduction in the incidence of Type II diabetes, a disease that affects 20 million Americans. Beside the fact that more organic coffee can lead to less diabetes organic coffee antioxidants have the ability to reduce the risk of prostate cancer and even tooth decay.
The list of health benefits of organic coffee goes on and on. Organic green coffee with ginger is just one more way to enjoy the taste and benefits of coffee with a little added zip.
Why Does Coffee Improve Memory?
Everyone knows that coffee help us wake up in the morning and keeping during a long day. What is also the case is that coffee can help your memory. The easy part is that if you are more awake you will pay attention better and are more likely to remember things. But, does coffee help long term memory? Medical News Today comments on coffee and women’s risk of dementia.
Researchers have long suggested that caffeine – a mild stimulant present in coffee, tea, and cola – has cognitive benefits.
A study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience in 2014, for example, identified a link between coffee intake and improved long-term memory.
The new findings – recently published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences – offer further evidence of caffeine’s brain benefits, after finding the stimulant may help to stave off cognitive decline in later life.
Here is the older study first of all. The quoted article is from Nature Neuroscience, 17, 201-203 (2014) and is titled Post-study caffeine administration enhances memory consolidation in humans.
It is currently not known whether caffeine has an enhancing effect on long-term memory in humans. We used post-study caffeine administration to test its effect on memory consolidation using a behavioral discrimination task. Caffeine enhanced performance 24 h after administration according to an inverted U-shaped dose-response curve; this effect was specific to consolidation and not retrieval. We conclude that caffeine enhanced consolidation of long-term memories in humans.
So, there is measurable proof that long term memory is improved with coffee. What the later study reported in MNT shows is that long term coffee consumption is associated with a reduced risk of dementia.
During up to 10 years of follow-up, all subjects underwent annual cognitive assessments, which the researchers analyzed to pinpoint a diagnosis of probable dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment. A total of 388 women received such diagnoses.
Compared with women who consumed a low amount of caffeine (defined in the study as less than 64 milligrams daily), those who consumed a higher amount (more than 261 milligrams daily) were found to be at 36 percent reduced risk of a diagnosis of probable dementia or cognitive impairment.
The researchers note that 261 milligrams of caffeine is the equivalent of two to three 8-ounce cups of coffee daily, or five to six 8-ounce cups of black tea.
Why does coffee improve memory? When asked by this seems to work the lead researcher talked about possible underlying mechanisms.
“The potential protective effect of caffeine is thought to occur primarily through the blockade of adenosine A2A receptors (ARs), whose expression and function become aberrant with both normal aging and age-related pathology.”
In other words drinking coffee slows down or reverses an effect of aging! This is just another example of the health aspects of coffee. Antioxidants in coffee are good for you and caffeine by itself is helpful in preventing depression and reducing the risk of suicide. Now you can drink your java with the firm knowledge that coffee improves your memory now and for years to come.
Organic Coffee with Coconut Oil
Do you like whipped cream atop your coffee? Unfortunately this does not work out well for most people on earth. Three fourths of the world’s population cannot consume dairy products without intestinal upset. This is referred to as lactose deficiency in Northern Europe and North American where three fourths of the population is genetically tolerant of milk, cream and other dairy products. But that still means that a fourth of the U.S. population and three fourths of the world cannot add milk or cream to their coffee or enjoy a whipped cream topping on their organic coffee espresso. Here is where organic coffee with coconut oil comes to the rescue. Food Dive writes about Café Whip, a coconut whipped cream!
Rich’s Products Corporation introduced the first whipped topping made with coconut milk, according to Perishable News. It contains coconut milk, coconut oil and sunflower oil.
The new topping, called Cafe Whip, is vegan and kosher pareve. It is made with sugar, has no hydrogenated oils, and is lower fat than sweetened and flavored heavy whipping cream.
This coconut milk topping could have many uses, but it was developed for coffee shops.
We wrote recently about how millennials drink coffee and like coffee house coffees, organic and generally higher quality. And since a large proportion of U.S. coffee drinkers and a much greater proportion of coffee drinkers outside of North America and Northern Europe don’t drink milk there is an expanding market for dairy alternatives. This market is dominated by soy, almond and rice products but now coconut milk is making inroads. So, if you don’t do well with milk products but love a little “whipped cream” atop your java, think organic coffee with coconut oil.
Irish Coffee with Coconut Whipping
And is there anything else in the organic coffee and coconut oil realm?
Start Your Coffee Aroma Wake-up in the Shower
An interesting place where organic coffee and coconut oil can meet is in homemade soap! The Alternative Daily tells how to make vanilla bean and coffee soap which includes coconut oil.
You might be wondering why you should consider making this soap when there are so many homemade soaps to choose from. Well, if you love the smell of fresh coffee with a hint of vanilla, then this recipe is for you!
Soap-making is so simple these days. Thanks to the melt-and-pour soap process, you can have a batch whipped up in no time. Plus, it smells absolutely amazing. To get that heavenly aroma, you don’t even have to use fresh grounds for this recipe – consider using your leftover grounds from this morning’s brew.
The ingredients for this homemade soap include white melt and pour unscented soap, coconut oil, coffee grounds and vanilla beans. The article has instructions.
Interestingly you can make this with used coffee grounds, which is another way to avoid sending the coffee grounds to the landfill. So, if you want to start your coffee experience in the shower while the java is brewing try this soap and if you love whipped cream atop your coffee but without the cream, think organic coffee with coconut oil-based whipping cream.