Nescafe Latte Instant Coffee, 7 Sachets
There is no foam head on this one, and that absence is the design rather than a fault. It is milkier, flatter and softer than anything with froth on top, which is precisely what people want at eleven in the morning once they have worked out that the froth was never the bit they were after. Sweetened through the middle, mild underneath, almost no bitterness, finished about fifteen seconds after the water goes in. It is not a coffee that tastes of coffee first and has never claimed to be. Where there is a kettle and no fridge, it is quietly excellent.
Nescafe Latte Instant Coffee, in brief.
Nescafé Latte Instant Coffee is the flat, milky single-serve sachet, seven to a pack and one mug from each, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the gentlest coffee in our sachet range for anywhere there is a kettle and no fridge.
It is the sibling of the cappuccino sachet without the head on top. Keep the mug to about 180ml; volume, not temperature, is what makes one of these taste thin.
Nescafé Latte Instant Coffee is the quiet one in the sachet range. Seven sachets to a pack, one mug each, and where the cappuccino sachet builds a head of foam and makes a fuss about it, the latte sachet does the opposite. It is milkier, flatter and softer, and it is the pack people come back to when they have decided that foam is not what they wanted from a coffee at eleven in the morning.
That is the honest way to describe it. A latte sachet is not trying to reproduce a coffee-house latte built from espresso and steamed milk, and it will lose that argument every time. What it is doing is putting the coffee and the milk in the same strip of paper so that the drink can be made anywhere there is hot water. Against a jar of instant and no milk in the fridge, it is a clear improvement. Against a machine, it is not competing.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Nescafé
Nescafé is the coffee arm of Nestlé, and the brand that turned soluble coffee from a wartime substitute into an ordinary cupboard item. The single-serve milk sachet came much later and solves a narrower problem: most people take coffee with milk, and milk is the part that will not travel. Put it in the powder and the drink goes wherever the kettle is.
Nescafé do not publish a green coffee origin, a bean ratio or a milk-solids figure to us for this pack, so none appears on this page. Where this listing tells you to read the pack, that is because the pack genuinely knows and we genuinely do not.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Count: seven sachets, one mug each. A week of one-a-day, which is what the pack size is sized for.
- Texture: flat and milky rather than foamed. If you want the head on top, the cappuccino sachet is the one to order.
- What it is not: not a pod, not a decaf, not flavoured. It is the plain milky sachet of the set.
Ideal Serving Conditions
A latte sachet has a narrower margin for error than the cappuccino does, because it has no foam to hide behind. Get the water too hot or the mug too big and there is nothing on top to distract from a thin drink. The good news is that the two things that matter are both free: let the kettle rest, and use a smaller mug than instinct suggests.
The Standard Mug
- Water: let the kettle stand for about half a minute after it clicks, so you are pouring at roughly 90 degrees Celsius. The milk element in the powder does not like a rolling boil.
- Volume: around 180ml. This is the single most important number on the page; a brimming 300ml mug will make this drink taste like nothing at all.
- Order: powder first, a splash of water, stir to a smooth paste, then top up. Stages are what prevent a gritty last mouthful.
- Stir: steadily rather than violently. You are dissolving, not whipping; there is no head to raise on this one.
Two Ways To Change It
- For a proper milky mug: paste the sachet with 40ml of hot water, then top with 140ml of hot milk rather than more water. This is the build that gets closest to a coffee-shop drink, and the sachet takes to it better than the cappuccino does.
- For more coffee: add half a teaspoon of plain instant granules to the sachet before you add the water. It sharpens the coffee note without unbalancing the milk, and it is the standard fix for anyone who finds this too gentle.
Getting It Right in the Cup
- Water temperature: about 90 degrees Celsius. Our recommendation, not a pack instruction.
- Measure: one whole sachet. The mix is blended as a single dose and splitting it gives a poor drink rather than a lighter one.
- Volume: 180ml, and it matters more here than on any other sachet in the range.
- Sugar: taste first. This version is sweetened already.
- Storage: sealed, dry, in a cupboard. Instant powder pulls moisture out of the air, and a damp sachet dissolves into lumps.
- Best with: mid-morning, a biscuit, a quiet desk, or an evening when a strong coffee would be a mistake.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Nescafe Latte Instant Coffee, 7 Sachets, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Nescafé
Nescafé invented mass-market instant coffee in 1938 and has been refining it ever since. The Azera range brings cafe-quality micro-ground instant coffee; Gold Blend is the premium freeze-dried; the Original is the everyday standard.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
Nescafe Latte Instant Coffee, 7 Sachets is a fixed recipe in a strip, so the useful work is in how you make it up and what you build on top of it. Six ideas below, from the mug the sachet was designed for through to two that use it as a store-cupboard ingredient.
Made with this tea
The Standard Mug
How to make The Standard Mug with Nescafé Latte.
- 1 sachet Nescafé Latte
- 180ml hot water, about 90°C
- A spoon and a smallish mug
- Tip the whole sachet into the mug and add about 40ml of the hot water.
- Stir to a smooth paste with no dry powder left.
- Top up to roughly 180ml and stir again until it is even.
What you'll end up with: The drink as designed. Keep the mug small; with no foam to hide behind, this is the sachet that dilution punishes hardest.
The Stronger Mug
How to make The Stronger Mug with Nescafé Latte.
- 1 sachet Nescafé Latte
- ½ teaspoon plain instant coffee granules
- 180ml hot water, about 90°C
- Add the half teaspoon of granules to the sachet powder in the dry mug and mix them together.
- Paste with 40ml of hot water, then top up to 180ml.
- Taste before adding more. A whole teaspoon usually tips it too far.
What you'll end up with: The same milky drink with the coffee note pushed forward. A better fix than using less water, which only makes it thicker.
Made With Hot Milk
How to make Made With Hot Milk with Nescafé Latte.
- 1 sachet Nescafé Latte
- 40ml hot water
- 140ml hot milk, dairy or oat
- Paste the sachet with 40ml of hot water until completely smooth.
- Pour in 140ml of hot milk slowly, stirring as you go.
- Drink it promptly; this version cools faster than the water-only mug.
What you'll end up with: The closest this sachet gets to a coffee-house latte. It takes to real milk better than the foamed cappuccino sachet does, because there is no head to lose.
Iced Latte
How to make Iced Latte with Nescafé Latte.
- 1 sachet Nescafé Latte
- 50ml hot water
- A full glass of ice
- 150ml cold milk
- Dissolve the sachet in 50ml of hot water until nothing gritty remains.
- Cool for a minute so it does not melt the ice on contact.
- Pour over a full glass of ice and top with cold milk.
What you'll end up with: A clean iced coffee. This sachet suits ice better than the foamed one, because there is no head to collapse on contact.
Coffee Panna Cotta Shortcut
How to make Coffee Panna Cotta Shortcut with Nescafé Latte.
- 2 sachets Nescafé Latte
- 300ml double cream
- 100ml whole milk
- 2 gelatine leaves, softened in cold water
- Warm 300ml of double cream with 100ml of milk until steaming but not boiling.
- Whisk in 2 sachets until completely dissolved, then the softened gelatine leaves.
- Pour into 4 small pots and chill for at least 4 hours.
What you'll end up with: A milky coffee set cream that needs no separate sugar, because the sachets bring their own. Gentler than one made with espresso.
Latte Sachet Tiramisu Soak
How to make Latte Sachet Tiramisu Soak with Nescafé Latte.
- 2 sachets Nescafé Latte
- 200ml hot water
- 1 packet sponge fingers
- Cocoa powder to dust
- Dissolve 2 sachets in 200ml of hot water and leave it to go completely cold.
- Dip sponge fingers in for two seconds each, no longer, and layer them into a dish with your usual mascarpone mix.
- Chill for four hours and dust with cocoa before serving.
What you'll end up with: A milder, milkier soak than the usual espresso one, which suits anyone who finds classic tiramisu too bitter. Children included.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 33.5 kcal |
| Fat | 1g |
| of which saturates | 0.8g |
| Carbohydrate | 5.1g |
| of which sugars | 3.1g |
| Fibre | 0.2g |
| Protein | 0.8g |
| Salt | 0g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains milk. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Glucose syrup, skimmed MILK powder (26%), sugar, coconut oil, instant coffee (8%), lactose (MILK), acidity regulators (sodium bicarbonate, citric acid), salt, natural flavourings.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|
Pack: Nescafe Latte Instant Coffee, 7 Sachets; seven single-serve sachets, one mug each. Caffeinated. Follow the best-before date on the pack.
Characterising components are shown by category. The ingredient list and quantitative declarations printed on the current UK pack are the authority, not this table.
Sourcing & blend. Nescafe Latte Instant Coffee, 7 Sachets is made by Nescafé, the coffee arm of Nestlé and the brand that made soluble coffee an ordinary cupboard item. The single-serve milk sachet solves a narrow and real problem: most people take coffee with milk, and milk is the part that does not travel, so it goes into the powder instead of the fridge. Green coffee origin, bean ratio and milk-solids content are not declared to us for this pack, so we do not describe them. We have run no brewing trials on this product and hold no brand specification sheet; the sensory notes are our own editorial assessment of the pack format and the brand's published description.
What's in Nescafe Latte Instant Coffee, 7 Sachets:
- In: a single-serve powder mix of instant coffee, a milk or whitener component and a sweetening component, made up with hot water alone.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Nescafe Latte Instant Coffee, 7 Sachets, please cite teas.co.uk.
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