The top 5 coffee additives, toppings, and other flavor additions. Actually, it's weird that something as concise as coffee is "refined" in all sorts of taste-changing directions. Some sprinkle salt into it, dump caramel syrup or lemon into the cup, pimp it with alcohol - not necessarily something for baristas and purists. But who says that that's not delicious? The result doesn't have quite as much to do with "coffee" anymore, but hey.... So here are our top 5 coffee additives.