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The mug’s invisible dessert · 3 min

Coffee creamers are not dairy

A splash a day is a weekly dessert if the bottle is sugar, oil, and flavour. Milk or a short-list oat is a different mug.

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What it actually is

Water, sugar, sunflower or palm oil, flavour, gums, a colour. Italian Sweet Cream is a pudding for coffee. Dairy cream is cream. Oat ‘barista’ is a recipe — scan it.

The daily dose

Two tablespoons, twice a day, is how a quiet bottle becomes a habit the nutrition box never showed you. If the disc is red, use milk, or drink the coffee black for a week and notice.

How to shop it

Milk, a splash of half-and-half, unsweetened soy. Flavoured creamers are a soda with better lighting. Scan the bottle once.

The extras we mean

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