New From Starbucks
Walk into your local Starbucks and you are going to see some changes. These changes all came from My Starbucks Ideas on their website.
Here are the changes you will see:
No artificial flavors or dyes
No trans fats
No high fructose corn syrup
New Vivanno smoothie with real banana and have less than 280 calories per serving
Gluten free cake orange valencia cake
There will be other healthy changes at Starbucks coming so see what's at your local store. Other options for healthy choices at Starbucks are:
Fruit cups
Yogurt parfaits
Drinks with low fat or fat-free milk
Starbucks Oatmeal
Unsweetened teas and coffee
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Posted by: Nick | Jul 14, 2009 12:48:53 PM
Adding to what C said, the environmental strain is also very heavy.
Corn for HFCS is grown with fertilizers derived from fossil fuels, fossil fuels power the vehicles that harvest and transport the raw kernels, and the process of breaking down the kernels and extracting the syrup is energy and chemically intensive. Nevermind that these constituent parts, separated from the whole, are then reconstituted into novel forms and shipped out to a store - and you have a thick trail of petroleum following HFCS.
It takes an order of magnitude more energy derived from fossil fuels to create a unit of energy of HFCS. While the main source of energy for food used to be the sun, it's now oil!
Posted by: Robin | Jul 12, 2009 10:35:05 PM
YYEEAAHH!!! I love starbucks! soo glad they're trying to go with the health kick- it's about time really. I had given up completely on ever stepping foot in one ever again. Now maybe there's hope.
Posted by: MD Resident | Jul 12, 2009 7:21:13 PM
I find this very fascinating. Audrae Erickson is a international trade policy specialist who was hand picked to head the CRA with hopes that she would sanitize the public's perception of HFCS. This product is highly toxic due to rigorous processing. I would bet that Audrae Erickson wouldn't dare touch corn syrup under any circumstances. Similar to Tobacco industry executives who would never buy a pack cigarettes.
This is about money - not science. The science is shaped and molded to serve the bottom line of the large food producers.
Posted by: c | Jul 11, 2009 3:36:41 PM
The problem with high fructose corn syrup is not that it is nutritionally lacking or harmful. It is the fact that it processes corn (one of the top sources of food for a large part of earth's population) into a product that has very limited use, thereby spiking up global food prices.
Posted by: Audrae Erickson | Jul 10, 2009 4:50:28 PM
High fructose corn syrup may have a complicated-sounding name, but it’s simply a kind of corn sugar that is nutritionally the same as table sugar.
High fructose corn syrup is not sweeter than sugar; and high fructose corn syrup, sugar and honey all contain the same number of calories (four calories per gram).
Switching out a kind of corn sugar for table sugar is not for health and it is not for science. It is for quarterly earnings. It is unfortunate that consumers are being duped by these marketing gimmicks – gimmicks which may result in higher food prices at checkout.
Like table sugar and honey, high fructose corn syrup contains no artificial or synthetic ingredients or color additives.
Consumers can see the latest research and learn more about high fructose corn syrup at www.SweetSurprise.com.
Audrae Erickson
President
Corn Refiners Association
