Many recent studies found coffee is healthy as fuck:
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/11/431036/coffee-safe-for-a-fib
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/coffee-may-improve-gut-health/
Some folks think it means Starbucks is good. NOPE.
Starbucks isn’t coffee. It’s actually trash:
Real coffee is this:
Also:
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Tea is also great and healthy. Tea is not addictive.
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If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM. Seriously.
What a load of absolute shite.
“YSK that fruit is healthy. Gushers are not real fruit. It’s trash.”
Soook much misinformation… In no particular order:
- Starbucks is a brand, not any specific beverage or even type of drink. You sound like a boomer saying “a Nintendo”
- You don’t even try to give a reason for your arbitrary 11 AM cutoff time. Zero sources as well.
- YSK is for facts, not biased opinions.
- Almost every coffee shop that sells coffee also sells sweetened and frozen coffee drinks, with similar caloric/sugar content.
- Your own link clarifies that the right amount of coffee is good for you, an important distinction.
- Saying Starbucks is not coffee doesn’t make sense, but it’s also blatantly false. Their coffee-based drinks are obviously made with “real coffee” and it’s easily provable. Just like every other coffee shop.
- There’s no sources for what you say about tea.
- Saying a brand is trash is 100% opinion. Plenty of people don’t like them, but putting that in the post shows how your prejudiced opinion shouldn’t be listened to.
- There’s no source for the cherry-picked drink contents.
- Saying a brand is good or bad is (again) complete opinion, so a conclusion can’t be reached.
- Opinions aren’t facts. My opinion is your post is shit.
I agree with everything except for this part:
Almost every coffee shop that sells coffee also sells sweetened and frozen coffee drinks, with similar caloric/sugar content.
You wouldn’t find another coffee shop in my city that sells anything comparable to the sugar-milk-coffee drinks from Starbucks. An affogato or caffè freddo probably has less than half the amount of sugar. They have pastries that dissolve your enamel within three bites though.
But to reiterate, wrong community for this post.
The difference between medicine and poison is the dosage.
- Your own link clarifies that the right amount of coffee is good for you, an important distinction.
I guess, but that’s reductive. Too much of anything can kill you.
Starbucks sells espresso and Americanos.
No is is forcing you to go to Starbucks and buy a warm Dairy Queen sundae.
Says “coffee is good but Starbucks is trash” while showing sugar-laden concoctions that can be served at most any chain coffee shop and plenty of indy shops will sell you whipped-cream-topped drinks aside from Starbucks, and not showing that you can indeed buy just a plain cup of coffee from Starbucks.
I’m not saying anyone should support union-busting Starbucks, but this is a crap post to single out Starbucks.
If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM. Seriously.
Got it, don’t drink cappuccino after 11, only espresso.
- Italians
I have a friend like this, not the time frame but his constant mantra of “I don’t drink coffee, but I have an espresso everyday”
What happens after 11am?
Have you seen Gremlins? That, but only after sunset.
If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM.
It’s always before 11 AM somewhere.
This is why an irish coffee exists. It’s both before 11:00 somewhere and after 16:00 somewhere else.
Same for chocolate.
Incorporating actual cocoa-dense dark chocolate into a regular part of my diet has been an absolute game changer. I have so much more energy and focus than I used to, I’m practically a morning person now lol
Seriously? In what amounts? I’m the opposite of a morning person, if the solution is this
tastysimple, I’m game!
You should know that there’s vested interest from massive drinks companies to push “caffeine is healthy” while selling caffeinated drinks with unhealthy levels of caffeine.
All of the “a glass of redwine is healthy”-studies tuned out to be paid for by alcohol companies.
We know how bad lobbying is.
So don’t use this as an excuse to drink a half a gallon of energy drinks in the mornings and think it’s positive for your health.
Ofc I’m not denying some moderate doses of drinks not filled with other shit could be healthy, I’m too lazy to go actually read the study right now.
Breaking news: caffeine is DRUGS people!
This is not sarcasm; it is a psychoactive stimulant on par with coke and amphetamines. Your heart and kidneys do not know what drug schedules are.
Enjoy your psychoactive drugs responsibly kids. And remember that enjoying responsibly =/= deluding yourself into thinking they’re healthy.
it is a psychoactive stimulant on par with coke
That’s… only true in the most pedantic of ways. The same kind of comparison would say that a supersonic fighterjet is on par with my inline skates, because both are modes of transport
I agree.
But I must point out US drug scheduling is political, not scientific.
heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), methaqualone, and peyote.
Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
The only two actually more dangerous ones there are methaqualone and heroin. But you’d have to be kinda silly to say cannabis is schedule one and cocaine schedule two, that cannabis has “no accepted medical use”. And also strong opiates definitely have accepted medical use.
War on drugs is bs.
pppsssst: that’s why your body can’t tell the difference!
Starbucks can eat a giant bag of dicks.
But you can buy “just coffee” there and even though it tastes like it was filtered through my ass crack, it’s no different than other coffee.
Where does one even find such a glorious bag of dicks?
Filtered through your personal ass crack? Sounds divine.
Why, bagofdicks.com of course.
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Nothing wrong with Starbucks coffee. It’s the mixed drinks with some coffee added that are a problem. They are mainly sugar water and other artificial stuff. Tea flavoured drinks are just as bad. Real tea or coffee cannot be mistaken for a pop or milkshake.
Nah, even their coffee tastes like shit.
They over roast it.
McDonalds is better, and it’s $1
You don’t like coffee. Over roasted and too bitter are comments from people who don’t like coffee.
I like coffee, and I avoid over-roasted beans and hate especially bitter coffee.
Over roasted: Burn the fuck out of your low-quality beans so that all flavor nuance is lost and every batch tastes identical.
Too bitter: Over extracted during brewing. It’s a skill issue, and even the darkest roasted beans can be prepared without excessive bitterness.
For me, an over-extracted coffee is never acceptable, but I don’t hate over-roasted beans if I’m at a breakfast diner.
I don’t get the hate coffee gets. My favorite was being told by a coworker that my one 16oz cup of coffee a day (at work only) was going to kill me. Meanwhile he must have smoked at least half a pack a day.
How much is 16oz?
About 500ml in freedom units.
A pint is a pound the world around.
Some people need to find bad habits in others to feel better about their own
When I was young I was told it would stunt my growth.
Now that I’m a parent I think people just didn’t know how to say “we don’t want kids to get caffeine because it will make them wild or prevent them from sleeping properly.”
I was told the same thing. Glad I didnt obey cuz I’m 6’6’’ and if I was supposed to be taller, I would have hated it.
they fear beans
i don’t think caffeine is healthy.
Worst part is the addiction/tolerance.
Waking up every day feeling like dead meat until that first sip then chasing that all day but it never is as nice as just not drinking that crap.
But if you’re used to it, many say it’s even emotionally supportive. True addiction territory.
I’m addicted to caffeine, so I might be biased.
However, studies show it’s not a bad addiction
Do you want to give up caffeine? If you do, you can do it. I did it. Took me about eight months. I feel better now, no “don’t talk to me before I’ve had my coffee”, no 3pm slump. But that was my choice, and as addictions go, I don’t know if it’s really that bad?
No study on caffeine wants to acknowledge the elephant in the room: Half the population has undiagnosed ADHD, and people use caffeine to self-medicate, usually unaware of why they are doing it.
Fair enough. There is evidence that coffeine can increase anxiety.
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/caffeine-making-you-anxious-5-things-know
I would love to switch to tea. I just love the taste of black coffee.
In case you think about switching to tea to avoid caffeine, you should know tea still has caffeine in it.
The most common sources of caffeine for human consumption are the tea leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant and the coffee bean, the seed of the Coffea plant.
Everything here is false equivalency. Starbucks sells regular coffee, it looks just like your AI pics you include, and the calorie count is going to be quite low. Yes, sugary drinks are sugary. You can also get lattes without any syrup in them, and while you can certainly argue that Starbucks beans aren’t the best in the industry, their lattes are pretty similar to lattes at any coffee shop.
This whole post is like “You shouldn’t go to McDonalds because they have a mcdouble cheeseburger with 1000 calories in it and you could make a salad at home.”
Also, I’d like to acknowledge that this sub is called “You Should Know”, which to me implies it should be about important educational facts, not opinion pieces.
It also says to drink tea, tea is not addictive.
Some tea contains caffeine, caffeine is addictive, so some teas are addictive.
Regular Starbucks coffee is vile, it’s only drinkable when you mask the flavour with junk.
I don’t like Starbucks, but Mackies have a very solid coffee here.
Though nothing trumps even cheap beans and a little aeropress or a v60 at home.Fresh-ground beans make SO much of a difference. It doesn’t even matter much how it’s made, slow drip, french press, who cares.
