REPOST: Starbucks Ingredient List
Note: Updates from Starbucks on 5/12 written in red!
Well, it only took NINE emails, but I finally got a response on what add-ons are indeed vegan. Just in time for Starbuck’s “Happy Hour” with 1/2 priced frappaccinos.
So here you go, this is what they sent me. The regular “bases” for the frapps are already confirmed dairy-free (except for the light and caramel drizzle):
Mocha Powder: Sugar, Cocoa (Processed with Alkali), Chocolate Liquor, Potassium Sorbate, Vanillin. Water is added to make the syrup.
Used to make the mocha frapp
Matcha Powder: Sugar, Green tea.
Used to make the green tea frapp
Java Chips: CONFECTIONERY COATING (SUGAR, PALM KERNEL AND PALM OILS, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, SOY LECITHIN [EMULSIFIER, E322], VANILLA, MILK), COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, 9%), COOKIE CRUMBS (UNBLEACHED UNENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR , SUGAR, PALM AND PALM KERNEL OIL, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, CHOCOLATE MASS, SALT SODIUM BICARBONATE [E500ii], SOY LECITHIN [EMULSIFIER, E322], NATURAL FLAVOR), CHOCOLATE MASS (2%), AND SALT.
* CONTAINS MILK (update from Starbucks 5/12)
Used in the Java Chip Frapp
Vanilla Powder: Vanilla Bean Extract, Dextrose.
Used in the vanilla frapp
Coffee Frappuccino Syrup: Sugar, Water, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Xanthan Gum (E415), Preservative: Potassium Sorbate (E202), Citric Acid (E330), Caramel Color (E150)
Used in the coffee frapp
Crème Frappuccino Flavored Syrup: Water, Sugar, Salt, Artificial Flavor, Xanthan Gum (E415), Preservative: Potassium Sorbate (E202), Citric Acid (E330).
Used in the creme flavor syrup frapps
Strawberry Syrup: STRAWBERRY PUREE, WATER, WHITE GRAPE JUICE CONCENTRATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, AND LYCOPENE COLOR (CONTAINS SOY).
Used in the Strawberry & Creme frapps
(update from Starbucks 5/12)
Light Coffee Frappuccino Syrup (US version): Water, sugar, Erythritol (E968), Natural Flavors, Salt, Carageenan (E407), Xanthan Gum (E415), Maltodextrin, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate (E202), Citric Acid (E330), Reb A, Color: Caramel (E150d, E150b)
Contains Milk & Gluten!
Light Coffee Frappuccino Syrup (Canada version): Water, Sugar, Natural Flavours, Salt, Carrageenan (E407), Xanthan Gun (E415), Maltodextrin, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate (E202), Citric Acid (E330), Sucralose (E955), Colour: Caramel (E150d, E150b).
Contains Milk & Gluten!
Thanks for this lovely list!
Hmmmm…strange…I used to work for Starbuck’s and I mixed the frap bases all the time….the original coffee base which is the foundation for the frap base is dairy free but then we would add milk to that along with a powder frap base and that is what we made fraps with….so unless things have changed in a couple years…..a fully made basic frap DOES have milk in it. They may have confirmed that the powder bases are dairy free but the fully made frap base is made with milk. You might want to ask a Starbuck’s empoyee how they make the frap bases before ordering one.
yes, the formula was changed this year. the base is dairy free if it is made with soy.
Any word on the pumpkin spice? I seem to recall that it is decidedly unvegan, but that may have manifested out of my annoyance with Starbucks lack of information.
i actually sent them an email this morning after I got their “announcement” email about it… i’ll post when i get a response!
I’ve been googling around, just saw a recent letter from Starbucks customer service listing ingredients, and, there are milk products in the pumpkin spice syrup. (very, very sad)
yea on the more recent post of the ingredients i mention that…. i posted an updated list last week….
is the double chocolaty chip frapp none vegan too because it seems to contain the same chocolaty chips as the java
hmmm thats a good question, i don’t think i asked about that one. but if it has the java chips then prob not…. maybe they can make it without the java chips?