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Nescafe Cappuccino |
| Date: |
02/10/02 (104 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Tastes nice, Not too sweet
Disadvantages: 53p for two drinks, Contains salt and vegetable oil!?
I’m back from almost a week visiting relatives in Lincoln. I am shattered and my throat infection is back with a vengeance. I can’t get a Doctors’ appointment until tomorrow.
The weather has been beautiful while we were away. It was T-shirt weather in late September – amazing! It’s now cold and miserable. It really feels like October.
So on a cold and frosty morning and with a bad throat, I need a hot drink. Some of you know I drink tea like a madwoman, but occasionally, I fancy something a bit different. So this combination of factors led me to my local Spar and the sachets of instant hot drinks.
I bought a couple of hot chocolate drinks and then two sachets of Nescafe Cappuccino. The Options and Cadbury’s Instant Break were 50p for two, the Cappuccino was 53p.
The instructions are easy. You boil the water, let it cool, put the powder in the cup and add the hot water while stirring. It looked pretty good, with a nice creamy froth on top and lots of bubbles.
My sore throat needed soothing, so I took a long slurp. At first, you just seem to get a mouthful of froth, but the coffee taste comes through afterwards and is very pleasant.
I bought the unsweetened variety as I don’t take sugar in tea or coffee, but I thought this might be rather biter and suspected I might need to add sugar – but no, it was fine as it was. It does contain sugar anyway if you read the ingredients, although I didn’t find it was too sweet at all.
Incidentally, if you read the ingredients on the back, you’ll find a few surprises – well, I did. Along with three versions of milky things and coffee - as you’d expect - I also discovered it contained both salt and vegetable oil! But never mind, it tastes okay and that’s the main thing.
As I continued to drink, I was surprised the froth lasted so long, with the dark brown liquid popping out under th
e bubbles as I drank. In fact, my last mouthful consisted solely of the frothy head and that wasn’t so great, but with the coffee, it combined to be a very tasty drink.
Each sachet of Nescafe Cappuccino is 53 calories, so that’s not too bad either. The drink is readily available and can be bought in boxes of ten sachets as well as the pairs.
I was impressed overall. I’m not a huge coffee fan, but this was nice and helped to soothe my throat, as well as making a change from my usual tipple. It won’t convert me from my ten-a-day tea habit (That’s a conservative estimate!), but I will buy it occasionally when I fancy something a bit different. Worth a try anyway.
(This was the concluding part in a four-part series.)
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