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.
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If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM. Seriously.
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
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.
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.
Regular Starbucks coffee is vile, it’s only drinkable when you mask the flavour with junk.
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.
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.
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
Truth.
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.
Moving to the Pacific North West helped. Compared to the test of the US, we actually have good coffee haha
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
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
That’s cool, I’ll look them up. I like a few small roasters and the coffee is always amazing, but I am cheap and lazy, so usually I just get whatever from wherever (not sbux or Folger’s/maxwell tho haha I have standards). The biggest factors I’ve noticed at home are using freshly ground beans with a decent machine. Getting the fancy ninja machine and a mill grinder was a real game changer.
I don’t get the hate coffee gets. My favorite was being told by a coworker that my one 16oz cup of coffee a day (at work only) was going to kill me. Meanwhile he must have smoked at least half a pack a day.
How much is 16oz?
1/8 of a gallon
they fear beans
When I was young I was told it would stunt my growth.
Now that I’m a parent I think people just didn’t know how to say “we don’t want kids to get caffeine because it will make them wild or prevent them from sleeping properly.”
I was told the same thing. Glad I didnt obey cuz I’m 6’6’’ and if I was supposed to be taller, I would have hated it.
Some people need to find bad habits in others to feel better about their own
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.
No, even their regular coffee is awful.
McDonalds coffee is better than Starbuck’s, and its $1.
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
They certainly have non sugary drinks, whether they’re decent is another question.
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
Local beans? Does it mean they don’t sell coffee in Canada and Europe?
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.
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.
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.
It keeps some of the coffee flavor if you think coffee flavor means burned. It doesn’t though. Good coffee has fruity or flowery notes. None of that remains with Starbucks coffee.
Eew. No.
And added caffeine to make it more addictive. And union busting.
I love how a lot of people can be anti-drug while downing three cups of coffee a day. I don’t judge them for that. They can do it if they want. They should be aware that they have an addiction though, and they shouldn’t be deciding what other people can choose to do.
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 its $1.
I will never again have Starbucks (and haven’t since about 2010 - its just that bad).
Black Coffee is not healthy, it makes me rip two darts just to start the day.
Errr maybe that’s actually a personal problem.
that doesn’t sound like a problem at all
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.
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
i don’t think caffeine is healthy.
Caffeine is an addictive substance.
If you are used to drinking coffee and don’t have your daily dose, you will feel terrible. Some people are very sensitive to caffeine and may experience anxiety. I’m a caffeine addict so I’m biased here. I should perhaps reduce my coffee intake and switch to tea. I just can’t get my self to do it.
However, studies found coffee is not actually a dangerous addiction:
https://www.wcrf.org/about-us/news-and-blogs/coffee-linked-to-lower-recurrence-of-bowel-cancer/
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.
i have some friends who got us some tea that they say tastes like coffee.
it’s awful but maybe you’ll like it?
You could try half-caf. I’ve found some good decaf coffee since I’ve effectively quit caffeine (in major doses, as I’m aware decaf still has SOME).
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 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.
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.
Damn this comment made me laugh hard.
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.
If you think the logo is the problem then you gotta reevaluate your priorities.
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.
Ypu are part of the problem with the internet. Please stop posting.
Holy shit that is every comment from you.
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
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?
