Espresso

Listed nutrients, per 100 g

For each nutrient, the value this page uses is marked “used”. A row marked “second database” is another database’s figure for a matching food, kept so you can see how far databases disagree (they can differ in the samples analysed, lab methods and rounding). Its own cells are worked out from it, but none of the page’s words or scores are.

Change the amount to rescale the first column. Nutrients a database doesn't list are missing, not zero.

Hazard rows as the dataset rates them

• Caffeine · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: average adult intake spans a range, and each end is tested on its own. At the low end a daily serving keeps total intake under the limit; at the high end it adds less than double the average. A 30 mL espresso carries 64.5 mg of caffeine, 16% of the 400 mg a day that EFSA (2015) and Health Canada give for adults; eaten alone, about 189 g a day would reach it. EFSA's country averages for adult intake run from 37 to 319 mg a day, 40-94% of it from coffee, At the low end (37 mg a day) an espresso equals 174% of it, yet total intake stays under the 400 mg limit; at the high end (319 mg) it adds 20%. · US food database (USDA SR Legacy) · B
• Caffeine in one sitting · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: EFSA (2015) puts the single dose that raises no safety concern for healthy adults at 200 mg, about 3 mg/kg body weight. A 30 mL espresso carries 64.5 mg, 32% of it; eaten alone, about 94 g in one sitting would reach it. Average adult intake is 37-319 mg a day, 40-94% of it from coffee, so the espresso is already counted there. · US food database (USDA SR Legacy) · B
• Furan · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: no safe threshold is set for furan. A 30 mL espresso (mean 157 µg/kg, 12 samples, Canada) carries 4.78 µg, or 0.068 µg/kg body weight, which adds 9% to 62% to EFSA's adult average intake of 0.75 to 0.11 µg/kg body weight/day: below the doubling line. · Becalski 2016 · A

Oxalate, phytate and gut-tolerance measurements

• histamine: 0.2-1.6 mg/L (secondary table) mg/L · as consumed, beverage · espresso, brewed by machine · grade B · Pmc:pmc883 4261
• tyramine: 0.3-1.9 mg/L (secondary table) mg/L · as consumed, beverage · espresso, brewed by machine · grade B · Pmc:pmc883 4261

Sources

• Becalski A, Halldorson T, Hayward S, Roscoe V. Furan, 2-methylfuran and 3-methylfuran in coffee on the Canadian market. J Food Compos Anal 2016;47:113-119 · doi:10.1016/j.jfca.2016.01.006
  becalski2016-furan-coffee · abstract only · Elsevier
• Health Canada, Canadian Nutrient File 2026 (14th edition)
  cnf-2026 · dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, 2018-04
  fdc-sr-legacy-2018-04 · dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain)
• Foods 2022;11(3):353. Update on biogenic amines in fermented and non-fermented beverages (review; Table 4 coffee rows) · doi:10.3390/foods11030353 · PMID 35159503
  pmc:PMC8834261 · full text read · CC BY

Body map 2026-10-25.1: each nutrient’s job comes from an agency fact sheet, linked beside it under Good for.

The plain words: “a lot” means one serving (100 g when the food has no serving size) gives at least 20% of the daily amount (the reference intake), “some” at least 10%, “a little” at least 2% (the cut-offs are ours, one set for every page: 20% and 10% are borrowed from the US labelling terms “high” and “good source” and applied to Health Canada’s daily amount, whereas Health Canada’s own shopper rule says 15%; provisional: they may change in a later method version). The daily amount is Health Canada’s Dietary Reference Intake for adults 19–30; where men and women need different amounts we use the higher one (protein: 56 g for men, 46 g for women). The percentage printed under each nutrient is the printed amount as a share of that daily amount, rounded to the nearest whole number, and the word is read from that percentage, so the amount, the percentage and the word always agree. Calcium with a measured absorption is scaled by how well it gets in compared with milk.

The scale: “Nothing to watch” means a serving a day stays under the limit at ordinary amounts; “Go easy” means a serving a day can push past the limit for adults who already take in the most, or fewer than 2 servings reach it; “Limit it” means once a week or less. The dataset’s own rating is under “How we got this”. Provisional: the scale may change in a later method version.

Measured absorption under Good for: grade-A studies in adults that tested this preparation of this food, as a share of the listed amount (the share digested, for protein), quoted once each source has passed our evidence check; animal studies and other variants stay in the table above. Provisional: this screen may change in a later method version.