With red fruits, coconut cream, maple syrup or simply icy: in terms of trends, coffee continues to evolve. The last fad of Internet users? The salt, to increase its aromas. A practice native to Vietnam (called “CA Phe Muoi”), whose health effects are not to be overlooked.
A creamy and salty coffee
The original recipe for “ca phe muoi” Or “Salt coffee“would come from the city of Hué, in Vietnam, where a couple would have had the idea” to season “coffee … of sweet concentrated milk and salt. The idea, behind this wacky idea, being to soften the bitterness of coffee. Since then, the recipe would have traveled to the point of winning everywhere on the networks – to the Starbucks channel stores.
“This combination of concentrated milk, salt and black coffee creates a creamy mixture that softens the bitterness of coffee and balances the sweetness of the condensed milk” entrusted the creators of the Salé Café to Cnn.
However, if we do not doubt the flavors of this Asian coffee, health side, it raises many questions … Is the addition of salt really recommended? Which can consume “ca phe muoi“? And from what quantity (daily) does it become problematic? Alexandra Murcier, dietician-nutritionist, answers all our questions.
A potentially dangerous drink
The WHO is clear on this subject: a healthy adult must consume less than 2 g of sodium per day (equivalent to less than 5 grams of salt per day, just less than a teaspoon). For children aged 2 to 15, this dose must still be revised downwards.
Recommendations, which therefore seem to be “stuck” in the fashion of “ca phe muoi“(our diet being already very salty, the consumption of 2.3 or 4 savory cafes per day seems not very reasonable). A point of view shared by Alexandra Murcier.
“Regarding salt in the coffee, I do not recommend this fashion too much, because the Vietnamese coffee is quite caloric: sweet concentrated milk contains a lot of sugar, which is not necessarily very digestible for people sensitive to lactose, and our consumption of salt is already largely highly high on a daily basis (we generally go beyond the WHO recommendations)”, warns the expert.
In addition, the sweet/salty mixture of this drink “Increases the quantities of the two ingredients that should be reduced on a daily basis. So this drink must remain an alternative pleasure, not something to consume every day. In addition, it is better to drink less coffee and better quality if you want to savor the subtle notes of the grains rather than choosing this alternative. Still marketing! “