Review of WaWa Hazelnut Coffee

I'm not sure how it started but a few years back I became a hazelnut coffee drinker. I don't require any special kind of coffee, nor must I have sugar or cream or anything else, but sometimes it's nice to pamper my mug, so I like to have a few hazelnut coffee extras in my pantry.

Awhile back I was browsing for a flavored creamer and found WaWa Hazelnut Coffee. It tastes good.

Does hazelnut flavored coffee pose an allergy concern?

The best hazelnut coffee, is the number one flavor category within flavored coffee is based on the nut flavor profile. The number two selling coffee flavor is hazelnut. The question becomes, "Does flavored coffee pose a health risk to nut allergy sufferers?" This question comes up monthly, and has for the past 20 years. Most all hazelnut coffee flavors utilize natural and artificial pure aroma chemicals to derive the flavor characteristics. These pure aroma chemicals are not based on nut extracts and do not contain the allergens found in nuts. Allergy concerns with flavors are more likely to occur with all-natural and/or organic flavors, if extractives from the named source material (i.e. hazelnuts) are used in the formulation thus increasing the opportunity for allergic response. With that point in mind, the coffee industry may be fortunate that less than 1% of flavored hazelnut coffee sold uses these types of flavors.

The beauty of using flavors formulated with no allergens is that you won't need to hang a warning sign on the coffee pot A coffee pot is a kitchen implement; a cooking pot in the kettle family. A coffee pot is also a container to hold freshly brewed coffee. There are many types and styles. The next time you brew hazelnut coffee.

Jeff Nichols is currently the vice president of the coffee division for Flavor & Fragrance Specialties.
Top Selling Flavors

Vanilla 27%
Hazenut 28%
All Other Flavors 45%

I Never Intended on Becoming a Hazulnet Coffee Drinker! What Happened?

I really can't believe it. I now drink coffee. I never pictured myself as a part of the coffee generation. I still love my soda, but now in the morning I find myself having a cup of hazelnut coffee before I leave for work and one to two cups while at work. This has just taken place in the past year or so. As I look back, I think it may have had something to do with having a toddler in the house and also just beginning to build a website.

Building a website from scratch is quite an undertaking and there are many hours accumulated hovering over the computer. In order to find a few more hours in the day I started getting up at about 5:00 am before work and also on the weekends. This not being my normal routine, I guess I found myself in need of some additional wake up help to be able to get up that early in the morning. Along came coffee!

Long ago, I never really cared for the Hazelnut Coffee at all, even in sweets or baked goods. I think it all started when my husband and I were on a particularly cold motorcycle ride with quite a few more miles to go before home. We had stopped at a gas station for fuel and I thought I might be able to get a cup of coffee. The only thing available was flavored coffee. I gave it a try because I was really cold and was surprised by how good it really was. (Now I know all of you coffee experts out there are probably chuckling at the quality of gas station coffee, but I guess we all start somewhere.)

Anyway...at some point I started buying the hazelnut coffee at the grocery store and then graduated to General Foods International Coffees. My husband drinks regular coffee at home, but I never touched it, at least not then.

Then at work we moved our offices and now, with a coffeemaker nearby, I have started drinking hazelnut coffee at work. Just recently did I learn how to make a decent pot of hazelnut coffee. Talk about feeling out of touch! I am not sure if I make the hazelnut coffee too strong or too weak, but no one has complained yet. I have even learned that it is pretty easy to make hazelnut coffee in a large party percolator pot, a task that was completely foreign to me before.

I still add a flavored creamer to the coffee, but I am really starting to like the coffee on its own. My favorite flavor creamer is hazelnut coffee. I have also tried a type of hazelnut coffee flavored coffee concentrate syrup that can be used in baking and with ice cream and I am really starting to develop a taste for it as well.

My husband says it is only a matter of time before I start drinking hazelnut coffee straight up black, with nothing added. I am not so sure, but not so long ago I wouldn't have thought of myself as a coffee drinker. Go figure. Time will tell.

Laura Warnke is owner of an online gourmet retail store, The Topping Shoppe LLC .
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