Coffee in baby chino

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Long story short but I ordered a baby chino at a soft play place and before I gave it to her I tried abit- which I never usually do but luckily I did as it tasted like coffee! Asked the barista and she said yes there was 2 shots of coffee in there! She didn't seem to know a baby chino was just frothy milk. If I had given my almost 18 month old a double shot of espresso I dread to think what would have happened!

Will be tasting them from now on but just thought I'd put the word out there that babychinos may contain coffee if the person making thinks it's literally a mini cappuccino.

This woman was very young and I've emailed the place to suggest the staff have more training 😵‍💫

Pizza Express used to do lovely babyccino's for my daughter, frothy milk sprinkled with cocoa powder, she loved it, made her feel grown up

Why not chuck in a shot of Tia Maria while they're at it?!!

When I was a barista I used to make them hardly ever required though with a wee bit of chocolate like a miniature hot chocolate. We always had quality chocolate sauce for making mochas and it meant you could create a bit of basic latte art so they looked like a proper mini version of a cappuccino, or like a macchiato. They looked dead cute, and I enjoyed making them because I love teeny wee dinky miniature things.

I went to my local coffee shop today and they charge TWO POUNDS!!

Try £1.80 near me!

10 years is not really "forever" is it?!

I'm clearly completely out of the loop with these things.
What's wrong with giving coffee to kids?

We had it from about the age of 2 (granted, it was instant not ground) and my kids (now 27 & 34) had it from an early age too. I'm not aware of any ill-effects.

It’s advised by pretty much every medical organisation against giving children, particularly as young as 2, caffeinated drinks.
‘Out of the loop’ is a weird way to say it. It’s not new advice.

If you still drink caffeine regularly and started early you will not have any memory of your system pre-caffeine, so you may find it hard to assess if there are any ill effects. It is widely drunk, but also widely implicated in lots of negative physical and mental responses.

Caffeine and Children (aacap.org)

There is no proven safe dose of caffeine for children. Product regulations are based on practices dating as far back as the 1940’s. At this time, pediatricians advise against caffeine for children under 12 and against any use of energy drinks for all children and teens.

It’s a made-up thing by yummy mummy’s. If it’s not on the menu/drinks board then I think it’s fair enough that the barista didn’t know that what op wanted was some frothy milk. Perhaps in future, just ask for frothy milk.

Blimey, imagine a soft play full of little one’s running around off of their faces on caffeine! Argh!

@Toomuchtrouble4me as I've said previously it was on the menu so.....

Thanks for dropping her in it. A babychino, shouldn’t even be big enough to hold two shots of espresso and milk. Everyone makes mistake, it wouldn’t have made the baby sick.

@threatmatrix who did I drop in it exactly?

You were ripped off!

Seriously it is 50mls milk, usually the dregs in the steamer jug after they have made your latte. Charging you £2 is ridiculous.

Many moons ago DH, daughters and I had a lovely meal at a resturant in a hotel in Singapore. They had mock cocktails in blue cocktail glasses, adults with alcohol in red glasses. We must have got a colour blind waiter and didn't notice ourselves, she did say it was lovely though she got very giggly after half the glass, funnily that's the only alcohol she has ever had, she's 41 now.

Lol in many, many cafes a babyccino is a mini hot chocolate. That’s more problematic because a baby will toss the coffee version aside but will probably down the choccie version & ask for more. I gave my little boy these from 6-9 mths before I actually tasted one lol.

..And this explains it all!

@wildfirewonder

If you still drink caffeine regularly and started early you will not have any memory of your system pre-caffeine, so you may find it hard to assess if there are any ill effects. It is widely drunk, but also widely implicated in lots of negative physical and mental responses.

I personally haven't drunk caffeinated coffee for almost 25yrs, as I have a longstanding health condition and was told that I'd benefit from avoiding it. I will add that my previous consumption of caffeine had nothing to do with the onset of this health condition, it's just not helpful to consume it now I have it.

I don't miss caffeine at all, but as I said, back in the 70s, we were drinking coffee and my kids were in the 90s.

It should also be remembered that tea has caffeine too, and everyone I knew growing up and when my kids were young, all gave their kids a cup of tea, even now, I see very young kids with a bottle or sippy cup containing tea.

Yes, there's likely more caffeine in coffee than tea, but it's still there.

Maybe, the coffee and tea producers should change their production fully to decaffeinated, then no-one would be getting 'hooked' on it.

@Sissynova

It may not be new advice but I'm sure my parents and grandparents wouldn't have given it to us if they'd heard anything about it. And, I never heard a peep about it when I was raising my kids in the 90s either. So it may be old news, but evidently not very prominent/important news until recently.

If they drank that and then relaxed and had a nap - they probably have ADHD.

If they did a Ninja Warrior style sprint, yipeeing around the place ... they probably don't.

Holy shit.
This explains a lot 😂

DD who nicked her Dad’s coffee sat so nicely in the buggy afterwards. She’s now going through ADHD assessment!!