Does Starbucks have hot chocolate?

Christmas drinks are shocking: a large Starbucks caramel hot drink contains three times as much sugar as your daily intake.

The large caramel hot chocolate of Starbucks, a chain coffee shop, contains 758 calories and 93.7 grams of sugar-three times the total daily intake of adults and four times the sugar content of Mars bars (the sugar content is 20.8 grams).

▲ The names and sugar contents of drinks are, from left to right, Starbucks coffee caramel hot chocolate (94g), Rooney coffee sea salt caramel hot chocolate (60g), Starbucks gingerbread man latte (57g), honey chocolate (47g), Costa coffee hazelnut sugar cream latte (33g) and McDonald's monopoly latte (27g).

This new study investigates the Christmas hot drinks of 203 chain beverage stores, mainly detecting the calorie content and sugar content of drinks (including Starbucks coffee, Costa coffee and Pret coffee).

Therefore, the campaign group "Sugar Reduction Action" of Queen Mary University in the United Kingdom called on the government to take action to extend the sugar tax imposed on carbonated drinks to coffee drinks.

▲ Starbucks gingerbread man Latte is the most popular drink at Christmas.

According to the survey, Starbucks' large gingerbread man latte contains 523 calories and 56.6 grams of sugar, which is equivalent to the calories of a Big Mac burger in McDonald's.

Rooney's sea salt caramel hot chocolate has more calories than KFC's chicken wings shared bucket 100.

"It's shocking that coffee chain stores all over the world" deliberately "put customers' health at risk by increasing the sugar content in their drinks," said nutritionist Holly Gabriel, a member of the Sugar Reduction Initiative.

Although in the past few years, the British government has certain restrictions on the sugar content of drinks; However, since 20 16, the sugar content of more than 27% beverages has increased.

▲ hazelnut butter latte in ▲Costa coffee Christmas drink.

Graham McGregor, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Queen Mary University in London, said: "Regardless of the outcome of next week's general election, the government should make every effort to achieve the goal of reducing the childhood obesity rate by half by 2030."

He also suggested that coffee shops should strive to reduce the sugar content in drinks and the sugar content in each serving, promote the use of low-sugar substitutes and stop selling products that make customers "addicted".