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Should pregnant women drink coffee?

Should pregnant women drink coffee?

If one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to start a family and you’re a confirmed coffee or tea drinker then you’ll need to check out official advise during your pregnancy or even better consult your GP. The official NHS advise regarding drinking caffeinated drinks is this: Pregnant women should have no more than 200mg […]
Has your chocolate been quarantined?

Has your chocolate been quarantined?

Chances are it has. Did you know that the United Kingdom is home to the International Cocoa Quarantine Centre located just outside of Reading in Berkshire and is part of the University of Reading. In their native countries cocoa plants can attract a wide variety of nasty and terrible diseases including ‘frosty pod’ and ‘witches […]
What’s the difference between hot chocolate and hot cocoa?

What’s the difference between hot chocolate and hot cocoa?

Yes, there really is a difference. Every 13 December around the world people celebrate National Hot Cocoa Day with a piping hot cup of chocolatey goodness, but people can get confused between cocoa and chocolate when it’s hot and in drink form. Most people will believe that the two are essentially the same but hot […]
Christmas coffees with everything please

Christmas coffees with everything please

It’s Christmas time, Mariah Carey is telling you all she wants, and Slade are wishing you a Merry old time, and on the High Street people are enjoying special seasonal coffee’s with all the bells, whistles, tinsel and glitter this time of year entails. They are also likely to getting something of a sugar rush […]
Experience the new KLIX ECO in-cup

Experience the new KLIX ECO in-cup

UK Vending is at the leading edge of vending machine recycling technologies and as part of this leading role we are over the next few months we are replacing the existing KLIX in cup with the new ECO paper in-cup. In recent years the world has become aware of the problems of recycling paper cups […]
Drink tea and be good to the environment too

Drink tea and be good to the environment too

96 per cent of us who enjoy a cup of tea make it with teabags but most teabags contain plastic. You could switch to using one of our fabulous range of vending machines or switch to an eco friendly variety of teabag or even loose leaf tea, which has the added benefit of being able […]
English Breakfast Day

English Breakfast Day

Like a good proportion of the English, we at UKVending love to partake of an occasional full English Breakfast, but you have an even better excuse today than most because today is officially English Breakfast Day. It is celebrated every 2nd December and it is a truly international affair with people in America, Canada, Australia, […]
Water Shock! Why you might be drinking too much

Water Shock! Why you might be drinking too much

We’ve all become familiar with the mantra that we must all drink at least two litres of water every day to remain healthy and well. But a new study has cast doubt about just how much H2O is the right amount. No one disputes that water is an essential part of remaining healthy, in fact, […]
5 ways to reduce your plastic coffee waste

5 ways to reduce your plastic coffee waste

In this time when we all make New Year’s Resolutions to do better and be better, how about adopting five new ways to reduce the amount of plastic you use and your impact on the environment. Five Ways to Reduce Plastic Coffee Waste The problem with plastic is that it is extremely useful and the […]

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