![]() ![]() If you got a caramel Frappuccino with whipped cream in New York every day during the work week, you would spend at least $24.75 and ingest 2,000 calories. Prices I’ve found for a grande caramel Frappuccino range from $4.45 in Boston’s Harvard Square to $4.95 in New York City and $4.99 at California’s Disneyland. They’re the most expensive drink on the menu.įrappuccinos are so expensive - a grande is upwards of four dollars before state/local taxes are levied, and extra if espresso or flavor shots are added. (For comparison, a grande sweetened iced coffee with 2% milk is 120 calories and 24g of carbohydrates). Add whipped cream to that (as most people do), and it’s a whopping 400 calories and 65g of carbohydrates, 63 of which are sugar. ![]() “Not so bad, you say to yourself,” until you hear that there are 60g of carbohydrates in this mere 16 oz of frozen, blended heart attack, 59 of which are attributed to pure sugar. ![]() They are outrageously unhealthy.Ī grande caramel Frappuccino made with 2% milk has 270 calories. People are also about to discover the truth in an argument I have been making since age fifteen, when my Starbucks “training wheels” (caramel apple spices and chai lattes) came off, and I began getting into the caffeine game in earnest: that Frappuccinos are objectively, unequivocally, categorically awful. With the recent announcement that Starbucks will be posting calorie counts of their food and drink items on the menu in stores nationwide, a lot of people are about to find out just how bad for them that delicious blueberry scone is (490 calories, or just about 25% of one’s recommended 2,000 calories per day, in case you were wondering). ![]()
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