Cricketscoffee Blog

  According to a new study by Boston Medical Center, about 15 % of 2-year-olds drink as much as four ounces of coffee a day .     Between 2% to 3% of the infants  studied were drinking coffee. At two, that number grew to 15 %. drinking on average a little more than an ounce of coffee a day.   “Our results show that many infants and toddlers in Boston – and perhaps in the US – are being given coffee and that this could be associated with cultural practices,” said Dr. Anne Merewood, director of the Breastfeeding Center at BMC and associate professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine.    Official guidelines for children’s coffee consumption is lacking, but there are some alarming potential health effects. Previous hospital studies have shown that coffee and caffeine have been associated with depression, type 1 diabetes, sleep disturbances, substance abuse and obesity in children and adolescents.   Ano...

   KFC has joined forces with The Robin Collective's U.K. food scientists to create the "Scoffee" cups. The Scoffee cups are cookie cups that are "wrapped in sugar paper and lined with a layer of  white chocolate," the U.K. press is saying today. The cup has an outer wrapper with the KFC's logo, on it so the cup looks just like a regular like coffee cup   Scoffee cups sound nice in theory, until you hear about their "aromas": A spokesperson for The Robin Collective told the U.K. Press that the cups are infused with scents including "Coconut Sun Cream, Freshly Cut Grass, and Wild Flowers." The scents are meant to send the "positive memories associated with warm weather,"   For now, at least, the Scoffee cups will only be available at KFC locations in the U.K.  The cups have yet to be released tho. With a launch date of this summer at selected U.K. KFC locations.