Twinings Chai Tea Latte is a hot drink from Tassimo Company. Tassimo provides brewing systems that use discs with barcodes that identify the drink. The Tassimo machine reads the barcode and adjusts the settings for temperature, water and brew time. Chai tea is an Indian drink with black tea and steamed spice milk. According to the website Chai-tea.org, this hot beverage has been around for centuries. Most of the calories and fat in Twinings Chai Tea Latte come from the milk additive.
Product
Tassimo offers Twinings Chai Tea Latte in an eight-serving box. This means there are eight discs for the tea and eight separate discs for the steamed milk. The company describes their chai tea latte as a rich drink made with black tea, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and ginger. The steamed milk discs contain a concentrated dairy powder. It is the milk powder that gives the drink that latte flavor and the calories. The discs only work in a Tassimo brewing system.
Calories
The Tassimo website provides full nutritional information for their Twinings Chai Tea Latte. One serving, using both disks, makes approximately 1 1/4 cup of liquid. This equates to 295 mL. Each serving has 80 calories. Black tea by itself has no calories. The calories found in Twinings Chai Tea Latte come from the disc for the steamed milk.
Fat
Each serving of chai tea has 5.0 g of fat. This equates to 19 percent of the recommended daily fat intake for a 2000 calorie diet. The fat breakdown includes 3.5 g of saturated fat. Twining Chai Tea Latte also contains .2 g of trans fat. Studies have shown that trans fat increases blood cholesterol and the risk of heart disease. The University of Maryland Medical Center warns that trans fat builds up on artery walls and reduces blood flow to the heart. If you are being treated for heart disease, talk to your doctor before drinking Twining Chai Tea Latte or any food that contains trans fat.
Nutritional Data
Twinings Chai Tea Latte contains 20 g of cholesterol and 140 mg of sodium. Total carbohydrates equal 4 g. There are 3 g of both sugar and protein in every 1 1/4 cup serving. The Tassimo website reports that this hot beverage offers 8 percent of the recommended daily intake of calcium and 2 percent of iron. Individuals on restricted diets should check with their doctors before drinking Twinings Chai Tea Latte as the cholesterol and sodium that may interfere with a diet plan.
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