Instant Coffee Mix (3-in-1)

Also 3-in-1 coffee, coffee mix, 커피믹스

A single-serve stick of instant coffee, sugar and creamer, the everyday office coffee of Korea and much of Asia.

FilterServed hotFrom South Korea

Volume
150ml5.1 US fl oz
Espresso
0shots
Caffeine
39mgderived, USDA FDC
Glass
Serving glass200 ml

The build

Watch it made, step by step
Serving glass, 200 ml. Layers in pouring order from the bottom, drawn by volume.
  1. A sachet of instant coffee150 ml100%
Volume
150ml
Caffeine
39mg
Espresso
0shots

Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.

One stick (about 12 g, of which roughly 1-2 g is coffee) per 100-150 ml water; sweet and creamy.

Caffeine

Derived
39mg

in a 150 ml instant coffee mix (3-in-1)

USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 174130 (Beverages, coffee, instant, regular, prepared with water) 26.0 mg/100 g x 150 ml. Scaled from USDA prepared instant coffee per ml; actual coffee content per stick varies.

USDA FoodData Central record 174130 · read 2026-10-26

A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.

Variants by country

1
NameCountryHow it differs
white coffee 3-in-1MalaysiaMalaysian sachets.

History

Popular account

Wikidata records the mix as a subclass of instant coffee. Dongsuh Foods launched Korea's first coffee mix in 1976 (popular account).

South Korea popularised the stick format in the 1970s.

Popular account

Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.

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