Name: Vegan Bulletproof Coffee
Prep time: 1 min
Cook time: 3 min
Total time: 4 min
Ingredients: 1 cup high quality brewed coffee; 1 tbsp coconut butter; 3 tbsp plant milk; 2 tbsp tocos; 1 tsp cinnamon

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Vegan bulletproof coffee is the dairy-free version of the trending drink that involves adding quality fat to your coffee (coconut butter or oil in this version). Bulletproof coffee triggers high energy, endurance and increased cognition.

Make your vegan bulletproof coffee even healthier by adding tocos powder!

This foamy, creamy, deliciously powerful recipe has been trending recently as a non-vegan drink. This popular drink is made with dairy butter, MCT oil (extracted from coconut oil), and coffee.

Proponents say butterproof coffee increases energy, focuses the mind, satiates from breakfast until lunch, and supports weight loss.

How to Make

So, I decided to make a vegan version. I subbing the dairy and MCT oil for coconut butter. After all, coconut butter is full of heart-healthy fat. And it has the added bonus of being healthier as a plant-based ingredient, as well as cruelty-free!

Also I recently discovered tocos, a rice bran soluble powder, that is also trending among health-conscious eaters. This awesome powder can be used as a coffee creamer to provide a major boost in bio-available vitamin E. This provides excellent support for skin and muscle care.

Some people even use tocos powder directly ON the skin. It is said to have a serious impact on clearing issues, glowing color and overall healthy skin. But ingesting it as a coffee creamer is so easy! Let's do this..

And since tocos works best eaten with a healthy fat, this arrangement - coconut butter and tocos - fits the requirement perfectly.

And oh my, this coffee treatment is delicious!

Creamy, filling, and tasting so deep and rich, like an exotic coffee latte.

All About Bulletproof Coffee

The history of “bulletproof coffee", or “butter coffee” as it is also known, springs from a 2,500-year-old Tibetan black tea, brewed with salt and yak butter.

A few years ago, a modern version of this yak coffee emerged. It began to catch on under the title of "Bulletproof Coffee" (read about it here and here ).

Fans are happy to note how alert they feel, how it keeps them from being hungry until lunch, and is thus super at weight loss efforts.

Nutritional experts note the effect is that the added fat slows the intake of the coffee's caffeine. This allows one to feel full longer as well as more alert and energized.

Critics, however, say that the ingestion of saturated fats from dairy butter might spike unhealthy cholesterol levels.

Well, with the vegan version using coconut butter, only healthy fats are in this drink. No negative cholesterol impact!

And coconut butter, made of pureed raw coconut meat, has it's own additional benefits. Just 1 tablespoon provides 2 grams of fiber, as well as potassium, magnesium and iron.

Coconut butter is also rich in lauric acid, an immunity booster that fights off bacteria, viruses and fungi. Laurie acid also boosts metabolism.

Add in a tablespoon of MCT oil for an additional boost. I didn't have it on hand so I omitted it in this coffee.

However, adding it in along with the coconut butter will increase your energy levels even further.

Whether you add in MCT oil or not, vegan bulletproof coffee has all the positive effects of the trendy dairy-based bulletproof coffee but without the negative impact. What do you think?

If you make my awesome vegan bulletproof coffee, come over to Instagram and tag me with it so I can see and tell me if it changed your day for the better!

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