What morning beverage has loads of saturated fat, tons of calories and gives you that much needed caffeine rush?
Butter in your coffee.
Putting butter in your cup of joe is the new craze that may make most coffee loves cringe. But those who have tried butter-in-coffee say the recipe has health benefits, can help lose weight and has an appealing flavor, CBS Minnesota reported.
"It tastes great," Cassie Bjork, a registered dietitian and founder of HealthySimpleLife.com, told the station. "It's not that much different than having coffee with cream in it."
The essential ingredient is not plain butter, but unsalted butter made from grass-fed cows. Two tablespoons of it goes into two cups of coffee along with one or two tablespoons of MTC oil, which is found naturally in coconut oil.
The combination of coffee, grass-fed butter and MTC oil helps increase the drinker's brain function throughout the day. Even though butter is often slammed because of the calories and saturated fat, the fat being consumed is actually healthy for the body, Bjork said.
"People are feeling more energy, increased brain power, less cravings, weight's coming off that they had trouble losing, and I think it's all because of the healthy fat in the butter," Bjork told CBS Minnesota.
Drinking all of that fat in your coffee can also make you feel full, which may cause you to skip a meal that's high in calories.
"It could be a positive if you were trading a cup of coffee with 2 oz of butter in it for having two buttered croissants and a cup of coffee with cream and sugar," Dr. Kannan Mutharasan, a cardiologist from Northwestern, told the station. "Overall, that would be a positive, calorically."
However, Mutharasan said he would not recommend people drink coffee with butter "because there is no evidence to suggest that taking in saturated fats is any better for you than unsaturated fats."
Those daring enough to join the butter-in-coffee craze can try Bulletproof coffee, which created a special blend of "upgraded coffee" with grass-fed butter and Brain Octane Oil.
