For anyone trying to lose weight, many experts recommend taking your coffee totally black (as opposed to sweetened with extra sugars, creamers or other unhealthy ingredients), but this is an acquired taste that not everyone can instantly adapt to. For this reason, we reached out to health experts about to learn more about spiced coffee, a trendy spin on your classic daily drink with additions of healthy, flavorful spices like cinnamon and honey. Read on for a spiced coffee recipe specially crafted for anyone who wants to lose weight healthily from nutritionist Izma Almasar, and more insight into the health benefits of its ingredients from registered dieitian Nataly Komova, RD.
Almasar's Spiced Coffee For Weight Loss
3 (Simple!) Ingredients: 1 cup of freshly brewed hot coffee, ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon of honey
Recipe: Boil 1 ½ cup of water add 1 tbsp ground coffee Let the water boil for one minute. Add this brewed coffee to a cup. Then add ¼ tsp cinnamon Also, add ¼ tsp, honey. Stir well, drink, and enjoy it.
Almasar’s spiced coffee contains cinnamon, honey and ground coffee. The spice of choice, cinnamon, boosts the flavor of coffee without increasing the calories, Almasar says. Komova agrees, noting that it also “reduces inflammation and hyperglycemia and increases fat burning.” These functions greatly influence “higher metabolism and weight loss,” adds Komova, who says that fat metabolism implies the cells will utilize fat stores for energy supply.
As for the honey in the coffee, Komova says that it contains various valuables, including antioxidants, amino acids, and minerals. “It is popular for digesting stored fat, leading to weight loss,” she says. Almasar adds that honey also helps in the “digestion of stored body fat and is extremely beneficial for weight loss” because of its fat-burning characteristics. “Honey also has anti-fungal as well as antibacterial properties that’s why it is a natural antiseptic,” says Almasar.
Ultimately, as both experts explain, the cinnamon boosts the flavor of coffee without increasing the calories since it converts sugar (glucose) into energy and fastly burns body fat. “Cinnamon has anti-inflammatory properties and prevents the damage of free radicals,” Almasar concludes. “It also helps in speeding up the human metabolism system and suppressing the appetite.”
