So sweet!

Posted on May 15, 2016

When you love the whole “Coffee family”, and find a Starbucks every mile (yes not km but mile 🙂 ), you are inevitably tempted to stop the car and drink some! It was one of those days, when it felt like Starbucks was waiting for us 🙂

This time I wanted to start my morning with a newspaper, a white chocolate mocha instead of cafe latte and a chocolate cake. Even though I was thinking that I can eat unlimited amount of sweets, the combination was too sugary for me.

In any case, I was happy 🙂

The calorie level of mocha (size tall: 350 kcal) was double the level of caffe latte (size tall: 150-160) but I was not expecting a sweet combination like this one because I had drank mocha elsewhere in the world around Europe and in Turkey (and afterwards even in Dubai). It reminded me of the articles that I read some months ago about the sugar levels in different drinks and I decided to take a look again.

I have found the article in Business Insider but the size was not the one that I drank. I switched to the original source, which is ‘Action on Sugar’ and found out that I had drank already 11 spoons of sugar (just from coffee). Apperantly it is around 177% of the daily intake that is recommended by the World Health Organization. The official announcement of Starbukcs about this issue was:

“Earlier this year we committed to reduce added sugar in our indulgent drinks by 25% by the end of 2020,” a Starbucks representative told Action on Sugar. “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.”

I can say that 25% reduction is not enough but it can be a start. I hope they will be able to find healthier solutions with less amount of sugar in the future. I want to continue to try different drinks based on coffee, but they should be healthier, so we can live more and enjoy more coffee 🙂