There are new health food drink trends in coffee houses, cafes and tea shops: Health foods mixed into the drinks. Today I visited Feel Love Coffee in Loveland, Colorado. You won’t believe the new health food menu items!
This coffee house makes special coffee drinks with MCT oil, a version of coconut oil that helps with brain health, due to it containing lauric acid. It is a liquid at room temperature. It’s easy to add to shake recipes, or foods after they are cooked.
Magnesium was included in one tea recipe, which is really important for human health. This tastes just slightly minerally. Magnesium just isn’t as plentiful in our food crops. This important mineral is often missing from today’s dinner plates, even if many vegetables are eaten, due to soil depletion. This means that most of us are deficient in this mineral. This is important because this mineral is tied to the normal functioning of 300 processes in the human body!
Some Magnesium version have no affect on the bowels, and others (like Magnesium citrate) can loosen stools. This is fine if a person needs that affect.
Another coffee drink featured grass-fed butter, another brain booster due to its vitamins A, B, D, and the importance of fats for brain health. The fats seem to slow down the rush of caffeine into the body, from personal experience, but I haven’t verified that with any lab. There is a famous version of this from Yak milk coffee, from the people at Bullet Proof coffee.
I’ve never seen any of these ingredients on ANY coffee menu…ever. And I get coffee a lot! I was really impressed.
And they also had Golden Milk, an East Indian drink with warming spices, coconut milk, honey and turmeric in it. Turmeric is an anti-inflammatory spice.
I joked with them that broth would be next. We can add turmeric, ginger or other fun food herbs to chicken or beef broths.