Taste Test: Starbucks Discoveries Iced Café Favorites

Source: Taste Test: Starbucks Discoveries Iced Café Favorites

The ever-expanding Starbucks found a new way to squeeze its way into your daily coffee routine: Iced Café Favorites in vanilla latte, caramel macchiato, and caffè mocha. The iced espresso cartons, which can be found in the refrigerated section of most grocery stores for $5 a bottle, aim to provide convenience and that beloved Starbucks flavor.

We put these three flavors to the test with our taste-testing panel.
"These taste like the Frappuccinos they sell in glass bottles," one reviewer remarked. Despite each flavor boasting only 120 calories per serving, the beverages - which also happen to pack in 17 grams of sugar! - were described by our tasters as, among other things, "chilled sugar water with a hint of coffee." The reduced-fat milk used in the beverages resulted in the drinks lacking body and tasting "watered-down"; some couldn't even distinguish between the varieties, although vanilla latte won by a narrow margin. The target demographic for these drinks? People who take a whole lot of sugar with their coffee. Our advice to the company? Skip the reduced-fat dairy and the sugary substances, and release a line of concentrated, flavored espressos, freeing Starbucks lovers to add their milk of choice - whole, skim, soy, almond - to the mix.


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