Coffee house patron, beware: there’s even more sugar in your drink than you think. Perhaps this should be unsurprising to anyone who has examined the nutritional information of what they’ve been consuming.
Globalised retail coffee outlets sell caffeinated sugar-delivery vehicles, rather than anything Italians would call coffee despite the faux-Italian branding of drinks such as the mocha latte massimo (14 teaspoons of sugar; 155 per cent of your daily maximum).
The problem is that our palates, overwhelmed with sugar, lose their sensitivity; after the first few mouthfuls, syruped coffee goes down like thick milk. After the tenth gram of sugar, the fortieth is a breeze. That is how people can fail to realise that they are drinking something with up to three days’ sugar quotient in it.
The issue is significant in the UAE, which has one of the highest global incidences of type 2 diabetes. Diabetics know better than most the cost of excessive carbohydrates. Think before you drink.
