Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccinos is loaded with lots of sugar than cola

Not that you’d expect anything that violently colourful to be anything other than sweet.

With lots of delicious drinks are sugary. A Pumpkin Spiced Latte is hardly a savoury option. Regular frappuccinos are pretty sweet. And as for winter drinks, they’re really just warmed up sugar syrup.

However, what are Starbuck’s newest and most magical, limited-edition drinks actually made from?

This is Unicorn Frappuccino which is essentially made from whole milk and whipped cream and is topped with ‘fairy powders’ (I mean…it’s not but OK Starbucks, keep infantilising your market).

With all of that, drenched with a range of flavoured syrups – Starbucks’ own brand frappuccino syrup, vanilla syrup, mango syrup, classic syrup and white chocolate mocha sauce.

What else?

Sugar.

A lot of sugar.

59g of sugar in fact (if you’re going for a Grande).

To put that in perspective, that’s the equivalent of 15 teaspoons or:

Two double deckers (29.5g sugar each)

Two servings of Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie (27g per 1/4 pint)

Two servings of candy floss (typically around 28g each)

It’s more sugary even than full-fat Coca-Cola (10.6g per 100ml versus the Unicorn’s 13.11g)

The NHS recommends having no more than 30g of added sugars a day – so this frappuccino is almost two times over that amount.

Even if you just had a Tall Unicorn Frappuccino, you’d still be looking at 39g of sugar which means you’d be well over the daily recommended limit.