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It's mind boggling how much sugar is in everything. Just looked at my girlfriend's Starbucks Chai tea container. 100g sugar! She would be better off drinking a
by maxxxxx 8y ago
It's mind boggling how much sugar is in everything. Just looked at my girlfriend's Starbucks Chai tea container. 100g sugar! She would be better off drinking a bottle of Coke. And Starbucks are supposed to be good guys .
On a related note: how do they get that much sugar into these drinks? If I made a liter of Chai tea and poured 100g sugar into it I don't think it would be drinkable.
- Avery3R 8y agoStarbucks has always been sugar with a side of coffee. That's its appeal.
- vertex-four 8y agoStarbucks are supposed to be good guys? I thought they were pretty well known as the shop that produces sugary milkshakes with caffeine in them.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI never go there so I don't know their products. But I always had the impression that they are riding on a reputation of being a 'responsible' business compared to for example Coca-Cola. But based on the nutrition label of the Chai I guess Starbucks is really just another sugar water manufacturer.
- vertex-four 8y agoHmm. I don’t know what their marketing is like in the US, but it’s certainly nothing close to responsible/healthy where I am. Their thing has always been trying to be the social space of choice for young adults here - i.e. if you want to hang out with friends or kill time you go to Starbucks.
- Semaphor 8y agoI always thought of Starbucks as the store for people who want to drink coffee but don't actually like coffee
- supercheetah 8y agoI would say they're better than most companies, but I wouldn't put then into the "good guys" category--at least not regarding nutrition anyway. Maybe I have too high of a bar regarding who I consider to be in the "good guys" category though.
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- monocasa 8y ago> And Starbucks are supposed to be good guys Do what now?
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- paganel 8y ago> It's mind boggling how much sugar is in everything I remember traveling to Western Europe a couple of years ago (I live further East) and trying to buy plain yogurt from a supermarket, I mean yogurt which should have tasted as close as possible to the one my peasant grandma used to make. It was close to impossible to find such a product, as even the yogurt labeled as "plain" had a sweetish taste, you could definitely tell that they had put sugar in it. I imagine that in the US the state of affairs regarding sugary foods is even worse.
- MrBuddyCasino 8y agoCan’t be Germany, natural yoghurt is commonly available here. And yes, US makes it very difficult to buy healthy food.
- paganel 8y agoGlad to hear, that's a plus for me for German foods then. It was actually the French-speaking part of Switzerland, the Coop stores (which is strange because otherwise they sell great cheese). What's even worse is that after two or three days I was getting accustomed to that sweetish yogurt and I was starting to think that that was its natural taste.
- snovv_crash 8y agoI'm sure you can get natural yoghurt from Coop. Maybe they just use a different culture from what you are used to.
- paganel 8y agoLike I said, after a couple of days even to me it started tasting “normal”, but at first it certainly tasted more sweet compared to what I can usually purchase in my country. Different to what I was accustomed, yes, but also more sweet. For comparison I never had the same issue while buying yogurts from Greece or ayran from Turkey. They also tasted different to what I was accustomed but not sweeter.
- cowmoo728 8y agoWhy is starbucks supposed to be good? Isn't this the company that makes the double pump vanilla frappe, and almost certainly started a viral instagram marketing campaign targeting teenagers with their rainbow unicorn drinks? They're in the business of selling addictive fast food just as much as all the other players.
- AJ007 8y agoStarbucks is a worst offender. You can buy black coffee, plain tea, and bananas, everything else they sell is terrible for you if you eat it regularly.
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- bhousel 8y agoLots of people don't realize that 1 cup milk has 13g sugar from the lactose. For comparison, a typical sugar packet is 2-4g. (This is why cereal + milk is probably just about the unhealthiest thing possible to start your day). It's a good idea to switch from the sugary/milky Starbucks drinks to anything else - like cold brew, or black coffee where you add trace amounts of sugar/cream yourself, if any.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoNot sure I would recommend adult humans drink milk, but 13g is not really that much (depending on your choice of cereal) the USDA suggests males 19-30 could eat up to 82g/day (the WHO is a little more reasonable at 50g for all adults)[1] 1: http://www.foodpyramid.com/daily-sugar-intake/ http://www.foodpyramid.com/daily-sugar-intake/
- ramblenode 8y agoThe USDA is at least complicit in the diet this article criticizes.
- cowmoo728 8y agoI don't think lactose is nearly as bad because it doesn't go through the same liver digestion process that causes insulin resistance and fatty liver disease. Lactose is broken into glucose and galactose before it ever enters the bloodstream, and then galactose is digested in the liver but doesn't produce triglyceride byproducts as far as I can tell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactose#Metabolism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactose#Metabolism
- Gibbon1 8y agoGet this the American Heart Association which is noted for focusing on fat as the cause heart disease has a recommended daily allowance for sugar. For women it's 25g/day.
- jeklj 8y agoIsn’t that normal for chai? They sure do put a lot of jaggery in there.
- astura 8y agoThere's a reason I call Starbucks drinks "milkshakes" instead of "coffee" or "tea."
- hkt 8y agoI always assumed after Austin Powers depicted Starbucks as the base of Dr Evil's empire that it was, in fact, at least slightly sketchy. I can't say I have any other sources to back that up though, except for what you just said.