Bulletproof coffee is the latest craze for super drinks and superfoods around the world. Lately we are very used to food fashions, which promise to satisfy us and help us get a body 10, while achieving balance between body and mind: love for organic, detox shakes, juices of different colors combining fruits and vegetables, chia, quinoa, flax seeds … And now the Bulletproof coffee.
It is a mixture of coffee, butter and coconut oil, which replaces a full breakfast. There are already many celebrities who have already declared their unconditional love for having a cup of this super coffee when they get up. Gwyneth Paltrow is one of them, but not the only one, as the succulent mix has millions of followers around the world.
The origins of Bulletproof coffee
Who invented this revolutionary drink? Nothing more and nothing less than the millionaire, Dave Asprey, who was climbing in Tibet when he reached the top totally fainted and some monks gave him a drink based on tea and yak butter, which was an immediate restorative. It was then that Dave began to mature the idea of patenting a similar mixture, until, after many experiments, he found the Bulletproof coffee, which he himself sells on his website.
How to prepare Bulletproof coffee?
Either way, this coffee is easy to brew at home. You just have to get hot water, a coffee maker and a blender. Add two teaspoons of butter and two teaspoons of coconut oil to the coffee. Of course, and now comes the most complicated part, the coffee must be of good quality, not contain toxins and you must grind the beans at home; Butter must be organic (grass-grown) and low in calories and salt and coconut oil, it must also be organic (this is the tricky part because sometimes it is difficult to find these products so natural in our country). Beat everything with the blender (a powerful one to mix the oils and coffee well) and you have a full breakfast.
What are the benefits of Bulletproof coffee?
+It gives you energy. It stimulates the body to burn fat that it converts into energy.
+It gives you high mental performance and maximizes your concentration. That’s why it’s become the favorite early morning beverage for U.S. executives.
+It’s satiating. The satiating power is found in butter, which satisfies you for hours avoiding the consumption of sugars and carbohydrates.
+It provides good fats to the body, as well as vitamins and minerals. Natural butter is full of vitamins (especially A and K2).
+It has no toxins.
Therefore, a cup of Bulletproof coffee is a complete breakfast that promises to take away your hunger, in a healthy way, for 5 or 6 hours thanks to its 400 calories; Of course, if the ingredients are totally natural these fats will be the so-called ‘good or beneficial to health’. It is the perfect coffee for people who have a hard time eating breakfast in the morning and for those who have little energy first thing in the morning.
Of course, behind this fashion has emerged a whole ritual and even a diet based on this bulletproof coffee, which eliminates not only carbohydrates and sugars, but also gluten from the daily diet. We do not know if it will work, what is certain is that its creator claims to have lost, following the instructions of the same, nothing more and nothing less than 40 kilos. Do you dare to have a cup of Bulletproof coffee for breakfast?