And here I was thinking a caramel macchiato was just as healthy as a basket of broccoli. There’s a group in the UK who really hate sugar and they go out of their ways to make people feel really bad about going to Starbucks and other places who use sugar.
A can of Coke has about 8 teaspoons of evil sugar. One of Starbucks’ mulled chai drinks has 25.
Diabetes anyone?
The report said Starbucks’ hot mulled fruit grape with chai, orange and cinnamon was the “worst offender,” with 25 teaspoons of sugar.
Two other popular Starbucks choices — vanilla latte and caramel macchiato — contain more than eight teaspoons of sugar each, according to the company’s U.S. website.
Starbucks said it has committed to reduce added sugar in its “indulgent drinks” by 25% by the end of 2020. “We also offer a wide variety of lighter options, sugar-free syrups and sugar-free natural sweetener and we display all nutritional information in-store and online,” a Starbucks spokesperson said.
A medium Dunkin’ Donuts (DNKN) vanilla chai has over 11 teaspoons of sugar, while a hot macchiato includes 7 teaspoons. KFC’s mocha contains 15 teaspoons of sugar. A large mocha at McDonald’s (MCD) has 11 teaspoons, and a chai latte massimo at the British chain Costa Coffee includes 20 teaspoons.
“These hot flavored drinks should be an occasional treat, not an ‘everyday’ drink. They are laden with an unbelievable amount (of) sugar and calories and are often accompanied by a high sugar and fat snack,” said Kawther Hashem, a researcher for Action on Sugar.
You’d be pleased to know that Starbucks is planning to tackle this problem, by reducing sugar content by 25%, no sooner than the end of 2020.
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I am shocked KFC is still open and even more that they serve coffee?
Howard Schultz is just another in a long line of hypocritical liberals.
When I go to Dunkin Donuts. like a truck driver, I get a large with two creams and one sugar. Hot coffee for an American man on the job.
When I go to SBUX I get a Reserve coffee on the Clover, their fancy version of a french press. And the wife will occasionally get a flavored latte.
“That’s not coffee,” I tell her.
“But it’s better than a plain latte,” she replies.
“No, it isn’t. A real latte is better. That’s not coffee. That’s sugar.”
“I don’t like coffee.”
“We are at Starbucks.”
So hopefully this report will help her to choose real lattes instead of sugar milk drinks. Real lattes are excellent and quite a bargain at your local Starbucks cafe.
And, get the tall. The other sizes are just more milk, or in other words – a dilution of that wonderful espresso.
*The Reserve Coffees should be drunk black.
Your funny wife story reminds me that we are way overdue for one of Fly’s epic ones involving Mrs Fly and shopping, or else some catastrophe occurring at Chez Fly.
Clover French roast is the best coffee I’ve ever had.
Try the Nicaragua stuff, or the Ethopia Bitta Farm, or any of the other reserves. Really special stuff. Easily worth the $5 or so for the grande.
I have and still prefer French. I do not like African roasts, too light and fruity.
I own SBUX and drink Italian Roast made in a stovetop moka. (I also own NSRGY and drink Nespresso like a fiend.) I don’t drink many in-store SBUX drinks. Every so often in the summer I’ll have a double iced tall latte, no sugar.
I’m thinking that 25 teaspoons of sugar per drink is probably a lot.
I do moka too.
“And here I was thinking a caramel macchiato was just as healthy as a basket of broccoli.”
LOL.
This is the “Duh!” story of the week. I make 90% of my coffee at home, but if you want a close to zero-sugar Starbucks concoction, a sugar-free vanilla latte made with heavy cream is the ticket. It’s also nearly $6 now.