WHAT’S IN A TYPICAL SEMI-SKIMMED LATTE

MEDIUM SIZE, 330ml

Calories 135 Saturated fat 2.8g Sugars 12g Protein 10g THE default dairy latte is a semiskimmed one at all major coffee shops, with the typical size (a tall at Starbucks, or a medio at Costa) being about 330 to 360ml.

This provides around 10g of protein – similar to half a small chicken breast, and enough to help control hunger for a few hours.

Just one latte counts as one of the two dairy portions we are recommended to eat daily and provides roughly 40 per cent of the recommended daily dose of bone-building calcium.

In a dairy latte, there is 95 per cent of our daily Vitamin B12 requirement, a vitamin that isn’t naturally in plant foods such as almonds and coconuts and helps fight tiredness and fatigue.

One dairy latte also provides more than half the daily requirement of iodine, which is vital for regulating metabolism. And remember, natural milk sugars do NOT count towards your limit of 30g per day.