What’s the Deal with Flavored Coffee Syrups?
Using flavored coffee syrups to spice up your ordinary coffee
Flavored coffee syrups are a coffee lover’s delight. It could be said that flavored coffee syrups were just the shot (no pun intended) that the coffee industry needed to become more modern and trendy. Flavored coffee syrups come in sugar-free, fruit, and candy flavors to make every cup unique and tasty.
What you’re adding
While flavored coffee syrups seem to be a modern novelty, they have been around since the times of early espresso drinks.
Today’s flavored coffee syrups include natural ingredients to highlight the coffee rather than overwhelm it. With natural fruit/nut/spice flavoring concentrated into a sugar syrup, these additions don’t include fat or cholesterol.
So, your secret is safe and your diet can remain ‘cheat’ free.
Even better are the flavored coffee syrups that have added Splenda and Nutrasweet to their list of ingredients.
These calorie free and sugar free ingredients are helping those that want to watch their carbs, but still keep a little flavor in their morning cup: vanilla, almond, hazelnut, chocolate, raspberry, caramel, and amaretto are big winners.
There’s no need to give up that chocolate treat anymore.
How to use them
The trick with flavored coffee syrups is that you can add too much. These are concentrated flavorings, so a little caution and control should be exercised.
Although with how good they taste, it may be hard.
For each 6 to 8 ounce coffee drink, you should add about one half an ounce of flavored coffee syrups. Of course, if you find that you like more, then you can add more, but this is a good place to start.
Here’s a trick to get past the dilemma of mixing milk and fruit flavored coffee syrups. Start off with a little cold milk in your drink before adding any hot coffee. This will keep the fruit flavor from curdling in your drink.
And don’t be afraid to use more than one of the flavored coffee syrups at a time, but do remember to keep the overall amount of a half an ounce per cup.