Glenn DawsonReset-U Fitness · Owner and CEO of Reset-U Fitness

Does Black Coffee Break Your Fast? ☕️ #intermittentfasting #fitnesstips #nutritiontips

21 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker warns intermittent fasters that not all black coffee or cold brew drinks are truly calorie‑free. While many assume that any beverage without a noticeable insulin spike is safe for fasting, some commercially marketed “black” coffees contain hidden calories—often around 60 calories per serving—due to added flavors or other ingredients. Consuming these drinks can negate the metabolic benefits of fasting, such as reduced calorie intake and improved insulin sensitivity. The speaker emphasizes the importance of checking nutrition labels to ensure that supposedly “black” beverages truly contain zero calories, thereby preserving the intended effects of intermittent fasting.

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If you intermittent fast, you need to know this: black coffee could be breaking your fast. That's right, you've probably heard that if there's no insulin spike, you are still technically intermittent fasting. It's not breaking your fast. Well, I like to think that it's like less than 15 calories or less than 0 calories if you can really break it down for all the benefits of intermittent fasting, not putting 300 calories of fat in your coffee and thinking that it doesn't equate to anything. However, sometimes we like to have drinks like this that are black coffee, or this is a black cold brew with no cream in it, no nothing, and I assume that I'm fasting. However, if you look it up, there's actually 60 calories in this cold brew drink. So I'm breaking my fast every single time I drink it. That means that all the benefits I think I'm getting are kind of washed away. So make sure you watch out and read the labels on everything you're drinking because there's probably some additive flavors in there that are gonna give you calories sometimes.