Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks
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Re: Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks
#2I'm not surprised some Starbucks drinks have a ton of sugar, but the 3 cans of Coke worth definitely puts it into perspective.
I grew up drinking my coffee with sugar and cream, but eventually stopped using sugar, and then ultimately drinking it black. If you can wean off adding compliments to your coffee, you will most likely acquire a taste for the bitterness of coffee.
Once you begin loving the true taste of coffee, it becomes a much more fun experience to try different types of coffee, it's much healthier, and taste much better to me (now).
Re: Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks
#3It's maybe worth mentioning that Type 2 Diabetes - which is mostly avoidable - can lead to blindness and lower limb amputation.
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Diabetes-type2/Pages/Introducti...
When I feel like reaching for the sweets or over-sugared drinks I stop to wonder if it's worth losing my legs or my eyesight.
Re: Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks
#4Their measurements appear to include whipped cream but this isn't mentioned in the article.
For example: the pictured Starbucks Venti White Chocolate Mocha is accused of 18tsp sugar but Starbucks nutrition info[1] says 15tsp (55g) sugar without whipped cream.
[1] https://news.starbucks.com/uploads/documents/nutrition.pdf
Edit: incorrect quote
Re: Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks
#5I don't know how you could drink some of those Starbucks "coffee" drinks and think they were anything other than milkshakes. There are also some misconceptions around the caffeine content of these coffee drinks. Most espresso is around 30-50mg caffeine per shot, so a 20oz frappacino will have 60-100 mg caffeine vs a 20 oz coffee which will have ~350-400 mg caffeine.
Re: Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks
#6How sad it is that the can of coke is used as a comparison. It almost makes it look like a reasonable drink.
The World Health Organization has recently suggested cutting the recommended sugar intake for adults in half, to about 25 grams, around 6 teaspoons, of sugar for a normal weight adult a day.
Here is my favorite site that shows the amounts of sugar cubes in various unhealthy food: http://www.sugarstacks.com/
According to that information you can drink a half can of coke (most left one in the picture in the link) to satisfy that daily need. That implies that all other food you eat that day will not include any sugar! That is an impossible standard to reach. Solution, don't drink drinks with sugar.
Re: Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks
#7How sad it is that the can of coke is used as a comparison. It almost makes it look like a reasonable drink. The World Health Organization has recently suggested cutting the recommended sugar intake for adults in half, to about 25 grams, around 6 teaspoons, of sugar for a normal weight adult a day. Here is my favorite site that shows the amounts of sugar cubes in various unhealthy food: http://www.sugarstacks.com/ Ac…
I think it's the other way around; people have begun thinking of soda as problematic because of the sugar. So making it clear that a drink exceeds a coke in sugar puts the drink over in the problematic bracket.
Re: Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks
#8What a clickbate...
It's probably important to note that it's not only "flavored" drinks, milk has quite a bit of sugar in it naturally, the "special" milk which is used by some coffee places has about 9% fat and 2-3% carbohydrates which makes it worse than coke on it's own, normal whole/semi-skimmed/skimmed(skimmed usually have higher amounts of sugar to make it not taste like well the water it is) milk has about 5g per 100g of sugar which is more than half the sugar content in coke, so when you add even a "bit" of sugar to a milk based drink you get well more sugar than what coke has for the same volume.
It's also probably worth noting that a Starbucks "Venti" size is more than double the the volume of a coke can to begin with so about 680ml (espresso shot which is used as the base is only about 30ml) of milk + couple of sugar spoons to make it sweet can easily get to 2-3 times the amount of sugar in coke without even having to go overboard with crap like whipped cream and syrups.
Re: Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks
#9Their measurements appear to include whipped cream but this isn't mentioned in the article. For example: the pictured Starbucks Venti White Chocolate Mocha is accused of 18tsp sugar but Starbucks nutrition info[1] says 15tsp (55g) sugar without whipped cream. [1] https://news.starbucks.com/uploads/documents/nutrition.pdf Edit: incorrect quote
Also, this means that the Venti White Chocolate Mocha actually contains less sugar per unit than Coke:
12oz Coke contains 39g sugar[1]
-> 39g/12oz = 3.25 g/oz
20oz White Chocolate Mocha contains 55g sugar
-> 55g/20oz = 2.75 g/oz
[1] http://www.coca-colaproductfacts.com/en/coca-cola-products/c...
edit: formatting
Re: Starbucks has 3x the sugar of a whole Coke in some drinks
#10I was never a big coffee drinker, but when I did I'd drink a "foo-foo" coffee drink which was usually a turtle latte or something similar. I figured if it was only once in a while I was fine.
Then I read the nutritional information and nearly fainted: https://www.cariboucoffee.com/menu-nutrition/beverage-food-d...
630 calories, 65g of sugar, 21g of saturated fat, 195mg of caffeine.
If you do the conversion where 4g of sugar = 1 teaspoon, then this drink has 16.25 teaspoons of sugar which is pretty close to the figures in the article.
Needless to say once I read how much sugar was in these drinks, I promptly stopped drinking them altogether.