A few years back, my niece brought home from Cambodia a rather strange way of preparing coffee.
If you’re a coffee “addict” like me, you won’t stop looking for tricks to make coffee more awesome.
The trick she found involved pouring out some yogurt on brewed coffee.
Can I eat yogurt with coffee?
The simple answer is yes; you can add yogurt to your coffee.
I immediately thought the idea was repulsive; I wouldn’t say I liked how the cold sour milk and live bacteria in yogurt would wreak havoc on my steaming hot plain black coffee. Furthermore, I wouldn’t say I liked adding yogurt to coffee and quietly setting it aside for years.
Yesterday, someone asked me if I had tried the Vietnam yogurt-in-coffee. It occurred to me that the concoction- which, according to him, is becoming popular in Southeast Asia- must be the weird yogurt coffee idea my niece had brought home from Cambodia.
I did some research, and I found cool facts about yogurt in coffee:
- Yogurt or yoghurt or yoghourt are the same things. The terms refer to a somewhat sour, edible liquid made of milk that got fermented with the addition of good bacteria. Sugar and fruit extracts were added to make their flavor acceptable to different palates.
- Yogurt is an energy-giving food that contains: carbohydrates, fat, protein, vitamins A, beta-carotene, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, folate, chlorine, B-6, B-12, C, and the mineral calcium.
- Yogurt has been-reportedly without complications- mixed into salmon, falafel sauce, pisco, gin, vodka, milkshake, smoothie, and coffee.
- Drinking yogurt with coffee is like drinking coffee with milk accompanied by good live bacteria.
Yogurt in a coffee recipe
If you want to try yogurt in coffee, here’s a quick recipe you can try.
A. Ingredients:
- 20 ml. Cooled coffee (preferably refrigerated drip coffee)
- Plain yogurt
- two teaspoons of condensed milk
- a teaspoon of coconut milk
- One slice of lemon
- chipped ice
B. Tools and Utensils:
- Blender
- Pitcher
- Tall glass
C. Procedure:
- Prepare 1 glass of ice chips using the blender. Transfer the chipped ice to the pitcher.
- Blend for 3 minutes the yogurt, the 2 teaspoons of condensed milk, the 1 teaspoon of coconut milk, and a few drops of lemon juice. Pour the mixture into the ice chips in the pitcher.
- Prepare a glass of 20 ml coffee mixture (preferably cold drip coffee).
- Gradually pour the cold coffee into the yogurt and ice chip mixture in the pitcher.
- You can also prepare a yogurt-coffee drink by mixing a desired amount of yogurt with a desired amount of coffee.
- You may add milk and vanilla.
You may view on YouTube how to prepare coffee and yogurt as well:
Remember that bacteria stop growing at 8 degrees Celsius or 46.4°F and below and 63 degrees Celsius or 145.4°F and above; bacteria get killed at 100 degrees Celsius and above (boiling point).
Therefore, the Vietnamese yogurt coffee concoction or any coffee and yogurt concoction won’t kill the good bacteria in yogurt if the coffee temperature doesn’t reach the boiling point of water. Keeping the good bacteria in yogurt alive is desired because the live bacteria in yogurt aid digestion and kill harmful bacteria in the gut.
So, you can safely prepare your yogurt-coffee-fruit smoothie and eat it. You may also safely modify your favorite cookie or cake recipe by adding the duo, and you’ll be enhancing the health potential of your favorite snacks; make sure that you’ll allow the good bacteria in yogurt to remain alive when you add them to your food so that these may reach your gut.
Can you substitute yogurt for creamer?
Adding yogurt to your coffee is like adding good live bacteria to milk. This is favorable to coffee drinkers who love coffee with milk and are not afraid of eating live bacteria, but it is not for the advocates of plain black coffee.
If you are lactose intolerant and want to enhance the healthy attribute of your brewed coffee by adding yogurt coffee, ask your doctor to prescribe the medicine that helps digest milk.
Can I eat yogurt with coffee?
But wait. A school of thought won’t approve of eating yogurt and drinking coffee simultaneously. This group believes that “optimal digestion is achieved by pairing foods with similar digesting times and pH levels and that dairy foods, including cow’s milk, should be eaten separately.” The group’s claims appear to have sense; however, the group didn’t present scientific evidence to bolster the claims. So it’s up to you what to believe.
Will the heat destroy the good bacteria in the yogurt?
No, it’s not hot enough. Coffee would have to be at or above 140 degrees in your stomach to kill the bacteria in the yogurt. Your coffee might be hotter than that in a cup, but you won’t swallow the whole cup at that temperature. If you did, you’d burn your lips, tongue, mouth, throat, etc.
Remember that it’s not the temperature itself that’s the problem. It’s the length of time you keep it at that temperature. Most bacteria would be killed within ten minutes at 140 degrees F.
So take these following considerations:
Coffee is frequently served between 160 degrees F (71.1 degrees C) and 185 degrees F (85 degrees C).
The temperature must be 108°F to 112°F for yogurt bacteria to grow correctly. Too high a temperature inactivates bacteria; too low a temperature prohibits growth. And live probiotic bacteria in yogurt are killed at temperatures above 130 F (54.4 C)
The temperature of the human stomach is 37.6 degrees Celsius or 99.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Let the coffee cool down for a couple of minutes if you need to (if you don’t want to burn off your tongue) before adding yogurt so it does not kill off the bacteria. The best recommendation is to add your yogurt to coffee just before drinking.
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