High street coffee chains battling for a slice of the popular spiced-up hot Christmas drinks market are shovelling as much as 14 teaspoonfuls of sugar into each drink, it has been claimed.
An article in the Mirror online says that the Starbucks praline cookie hot chocolate contains a whopping 55.3g of sugar – nearly 14 teaspoons. To put that into context, the Mirror said that the standard four-finger KitKat weighing a 41g contained 20.5g (five teaspoons) of sugar.
It means that if you bought three Kit-Kats and ate the lot in one sitting, you'd only be consuming one teaspoon of sugar more than just one venti-size praline cookie drink. Starbucks' cup sizes are generally tall (12 ounces), grande (16 ounces), venti (24 ounces), and trenta (31 ounces).
