Fans of Starbucks‘s Pumpkin Spice Latte salivated as the coffee chain released its holiday staple today, much earlier than the usual fall rollout. It’s kind of a bold move since most of the country is still having triple digit heat days and taking sno-cone baths, but hey, when you have a cult following for a drink, why not go Venti and give the customers what they want??
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With the early release also comes some Pumpkin Spice Latte news—because what’s more important?—and that news is that the latte contains no pumpkin. Zero. Pumpkin.
Food Babe
According to Vani Hari, a blogger for Food Babe, the drink consists of these ingredients: Caramel color level IV (made with ammonia.. and it’s bad enough that Starbucks is already planning to phase it out because of Hari’s complaints), 50 grams of sugar, “Monsanto Milk” which is milk from cows that are fed GMO corn, soy and cottonseed milk (that contains Carrageenan stabilizer linked to intestinal inflammation and cancer, so yay!), artificial flavors like petroleum, and sadly for vegans, not even the soy milk is safe, as it contains condensed conventional milk.
And again, no pumpkin.
This certainly isn’t an attack on Starbucks, their coffee powers most of America! Nor is it an attack on the beautiful, scrumptious PSL—it’s just a wake up call that things aren’t always what they seem. And yes, Starbucks doeshave many other drinks that are much more safe and (somewhat) healthy, but this is pretty ridiculous that the much loved, much-hyped and much marketed Pumpkin Spice Latte, which has become a trend of it’s own, is really just a A Bunch Of Questionable Ingredients Latte. Cheers!
David Dean
David Dean is the founder of Serial Optimist and writer of things that hopefully make you smile. Find him all over MTV, Thought Catalog, HelloGiggles and “Google.”
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