The salt coffee craze is still "landing" along the streets and the truth behind not everyone knows!

There is no denying the popularity of the salted coffee drink has suddenly become viral recently, but there is 1 truth behind this new drink that few people know.

A few months ago, in Ho Chi Minh City, salted coffee was a drink sought after by people. Not only forming a trend, the image of salt coffee carts is also associated with stories of start-ups and businesses. At the same time, some shops in Hanoi quickly added salt coffee to the drink list and attracted a large number of customers.

For a while, when everyone thought that the trend of drinking salt coffee had "cooled down", new roadside coffee trucks "landed" on the streets.

Since half a month, on many roads in both the South and the North, there have been mobile cars selling salted coffee. Not only one or two rows, but running along the street about 2.5km long, perhaps encountering up to 4-5 cars.

The online community describes it is not wrong: "500m a row of salt coffee", "Hanoi street that thinks you are not lost in any street in Saigon" ... And in comparison, the popularity of these cars is on par with the number of sidewalk iced tea shops in Hanoi now.

The cars may differ in identification and decoration, but most have simple designs with name plates, menus, cup holders and some bottles of ingredients and can be easily moved the whole car. And they all sell salted coffee, along with familiar types such as stone brown, stone black, silver faint ...

Another difference with iced tea rows, which often choose the alley, the area with shade of trees shaded by the sun is that the salt coffee truck prioritizes the location closer to the road.

"On the way from my house to work, I counted 12 trucks selling salted coffee. I've liked this before, so every day I'll stop by the side of the road to buy from a shop. It is not a problem because even while following the line of people waiting for the red light, the seller has already finished 1 cup for himself. Very convenient for coffee lovers who have to go to work early," said a die-hard fan of the drink.

Another diner who also loves salt coffee shared: "For more than 2 weeks now, every morning I carry 1 cup of salted coffee, bring it to the company to drink. Then meet many colleagues who are the same and have a topic of discussion. We also save the characteristics of the car and the salesman. With prices ranging from 15,000 VND - 20,000 VND / cup, it also corresponds to my morning coffee budget."

According to many people, in terms of quality, there are very fast preparations, salted coffee is as expected by them, even more standard than many famous restaurants selling this dish. "But there's also a bad truck, buying salted coffee but it's just like drinking coffee and pouring more milk cream," passenger K. said.

The trend of salt coffee is gradually popular with many young people. However, the heavy use of this drink poses a risk to health.

Young people, in addition to going to the café to drink, can also make their own salted coffee at home. The recipe for salted coffee is posted and detailed instructions online with the main ingredients are coffee, table salt, condensed milk ... Depending on the recipe, the amount of salt added to a cup of coffee also varies, ranging from 2-5g of salt.

"So how good or bad is drinking salted coffee? How much should I take?" Answering this question, PGS.TS.BS. Lam Vinh Nien, Head of Nutrition and Temperance Department of HCMC University Hospital of Medicine and Pharmacy. HCM, said drinking coffee has health benefits, helping drinkers be more alert. However, each person should drink less than 400mg of caffeine per day, which is equivalent to four cups of coffee per day. Particularly, people with cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure should limit or not drink coffee.

With salted coffee, if each cup of coffee gives 1/2 teaspoon (2.5g salt), then only one cup should be drunk per day.

Recipes for a whole teaspoon of salt (5g of salt) should not be taken even one glass. Because, drinking just one cup of this coffee has excess salt needed in a day, not to mention the amount of salt from meals and spices.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that a person should not consume more than 5g of salt from drinks as well as all spices and dishes.

Prof. Vinh Nien emphasized that drinking salt coffee has more salt than the recommended salt consumption per day, drinkers will have excess salt, prone to the risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, stomach cancer.

For people with cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, liver and kidney disease, salt coffee should not be drunk. These people need to eat below the recommended daily salt intake.

To the question "What are the signs that the body eats too much salt?", Prof. Vinh Nien answered, "It is difficult to recognize a person who has eaten in excess of salt per day. Eating a lot of salt in a few days, the body will not have signs of recognition but have to eat a lot of salt for a long time to show signs of hypertension."

Currently, in Ho Chi Minh City. In HCMC, many cafes also sell salted cream coffee. Prof. Vinh Nien noted that overweight and obese people should not drink this type of coffee because it will make it easier for drinkers to gain weight.

That doesn't mean this novelty coffee deserves to be blacklisted. Young people who want to enjoy a cup of salt coffee can order cafes to put less salt in coffee than usual to avoid salt residues in the body.