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Most sources list it as 0 or 1 calories. Additionally considering that caffeine may increase your RMR ("Resting Metabolic Rate") by 3% or more[0][1], if you want to be "precise" it may be more accurate to say that black coffee contains negative calories.

So how precise do you need it to be? 0, 1, <5, or -1, -5 calories? Or is this just pedantic nitpicking?

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7486839

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2912010



>it may be more accurate to say that black coffee contains negative calories.

Calorie has a pretty specific definition. What makes you feel like the scientific definition doesn't work for you?




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