Originally Posted by
jocke
Have been eating low carb now for the last three or four years, but never tried this variant of coffee, with both coconut oil and butter.
Grabbing another bottle of virigin coconut oil on my way home later today, so will try and mix it all in a blender as that website says.
Thanks for the heads up, fellas. (Also had no clue that coffee with added fats had a special name.)
The coffee does not really matter save for that you want a nice brew... with 1tbsp of butter and coconut oil and heavy cream you are looking at 250-300 calories per cup. The coffee is modeled after Yak butter tea which is served in Tibet.
I buy my coffee beans from a local roaster... it makes an awesome cup.
For people who are not practicing a lower carb lifestyle, you might find it to be a rich and tasty drink but if you mix fats and carbs you may have trouble metabolizing the fats as carbs trigger insulin production and this blocks the use of fats.
When you don't eat much in the way of carbs save for vegetables and nuts and don't eat anything with sugar the high test coffee is like rocket fuel for a fat adapted metabolism... grass fed butter like Kerrygold is best due to it's better fat profile over regular farmed butter.
I am at a point where a spoonful of virgin coconut oil tastes as good as a spoonful of ice cream and if I don't make coffee I just have a spoonful straight up.
