When it comes to our country's most distinctive beverage, I believe we will all blurt out tea; if we replace the first few words with "Western countries", I believe we will also blurt out coffee. Coffee, together with tea and cocoa, is known as the world's top three beverages, and is currently the world's most popular three types of drinks.

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Every time you go to a western restaurant to drink afternoon tea, I believe that many friends will order a cup of coffee, which is both refreshing and extremely moody. However, when ordering coffee, the face of the menu on the name of a variety of coffee, also let a lot of people do not know where to start. For example, the most common mocha and latte, when it comes to the difference between them, many friends will be confused. Then today, the lazy meow will talk to you about this topic, take a look:

What is the difference between mocha coffee and latte coffee?

01 different cultural origins

Moka coffee name "Mocha", originated in the Asian country of Yemen, the Red Sea seaside town of Mocha, this place in the 15th century, had a monopoly on the export trade of coffee. This place produces a kind of chocolate-colored mocha coffee beans, and people thus developed the idea of adding chocolate to the coffee, and there is the mocha coffee that we see in the coffee shop today.

Latte coffee

Latte coffee name "Latte Latte", in Italian has the meaning of "milk". 1683, there is a name of Kochsky Viennese in the local coffee shop, because business is not good, he started to coffee. Because business was not good, he started with coffee, changed the recipe, filtered out the coffee grounds and added a lot of milk. The earliest incarnation of the latte we now drink came from Kochowski's hand.

From the point of view of cultural origins, mocha coffee originated in Yemen's Red Sea seaside town of Mocha, latte coffee from the hands of a cafe owner in the Vienna region of Austria.

02 Different composition of raw materials

Mocha coffee is made from espresso, chocolate sauce, whipped cream and milk mixed coffee, usually sprinkled with some cinnamon or cocoa powder, the composition of raw materials is richer. A latte, on the other hand, is made from a blend of espresso and milk, with no chocolate sauce or whipped cream, and can simply be interpreted as a combination of milk + coffee.

From the composition of raw materials, the main ingredients of mocha coffee espresso, chocolate sauce, whipped cream and milk, latte coffee main ingredients only espresso and milk.

03 different appearance style

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Mocha coffee surface will usually have whipped cream and brown chocolate sauce, there will also be a little cinnamon or cocoa powder to do the embellishment, the picture is more gorgeous; latte coffee surface will have a thin layer of milk foam, if it is a cafe to order a latte, the surface is usually also very delicate pattern of pull.

From the appearance of style, the difference between these two types of coffee is reflected in the surface pattern, mocha coffee surface layer is richer, by the cream, chocolate sauce, cinnamon or cocoa powder composition; latte coffee surface pattern is more elegant, usually with exquisite pull flower.

04 taste taste different

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Mocha coffee drink, there is a thick chocolate flavor and cream flavor, is like eating dessert people's heart. Some people also describe the flavor of mocha coffee as the taste of love because it is so sweet. The amount of milk in a latte is more than the amount of coffee, so the coffee flavor is not as strong as it should be, but rather has a mellow fresh milk flavor.

From the taste and flavor, mocha coffee tastes sweeter and has a chocolate flavor as well as a creamy taste; latte coffee tastes like fresh milk.

Conclusion

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The difference between mocha coffee and latte coffee is mainly reflected in four aspects, namely, different cultural origins, different composition of raw materials, different appearance and style, different taste and flavor, so that the next time you order a coffee, you will not be confused.

However, here to remind friends in the weight loss, if you want to drink coffee, be sure not to choose mocha, because the calories inside the high to burst , a cup of mocha coffee calories, about equal to the calories of 3 small bowls of rice. If you really want to drink, you can choose to drink a small amount of latte coffee