Cons: High price, nasty flavor, artificially sweetened on top of all that sugar!
The Bottom Line: Fill a coffee cup with ice. Add a vanilla shot from the cappuccino machine. Top off with real coffee. This tastes far better than the canned stuff.
hularider's Full Review: Starbucks Doubleshot Energy+Coffee, Vanilla, 15 Oz...
OK, I needed a caffeine hit, but the day was too hot to just grab the cheap stuff in the pot. Checking out the chill box, there was a wide variety of coffees. I picked this one. Shoulda poured the cheap stuff into a cup of ice.
At about $2.50 per can, this is cheaper than actually going to Starbucks, but when something tastes this bad, it isn't cheap at any price.
I'm trying to be careful of what I put into my body these days, so I carefully read the lable before drinking this product:
Starbucks Coffee; reduced-fat milk; skim milk; sugar; maltodextrin (hmmm - turns to glucose in digestion); dextrose (hmmmm - more glucose. That's a LOT of sugar - about 25 grams, more than half the generally accepted RDA! Yipee!); Taurine (Yeah!); cellulose gel; natural flavor (could be anything from MSG to. . . well . . . anything!); L-carnitine (maybe I can metabolize some of this fat off while I drink); Panax Ginsing root extract; inositol (sounds like it should be a joke, but we make this stuff in our own bodies!); sodium ascorbate; guarana seed extract; cellulose gum; calcium phosphate; niacinamide; sucralose, ascorbic acid; tricalcium phosphate; caramel color; pyridoxine hydrochloride (can't they just say "B6"?); riboflavin; vitamin A palmitate; cyanocobalamin; vitamin D3.
OK. I go outside and open it. Remember, it's hot. I chug back about three quarters of the stuff. BLIIICK!!!! DANG the stuff was NASty!
Mildly coffee-flavored, the predominant taste and mouth-feel was more reminiscent of vanilla-flavored Maalox than anyting else. Chalky, yet slimy, all that sugar did nothing to disguise the taste of the skim milk.
I went back and re-read the ingredients. Nowhere in there was VANILLA actually listed as an ingredient in this "Vanilla" coffee! AHA! The "natural flavor" must be some constituent of some other product which, when processed sufficiently, tastes something like vanilla, real vanilla being out-the-roof expensive.
Far too nasty to drink more of, I dumped the remainder in the shrubbery.
Then I noticed that my mouth was feeling funny, and had an even nastier, somewhat bitter flavor - the evil taste of Splenda. But it was not on the lable! Then I read again. There it was - sucralose! In my desperation, I had not read carefully enough. I had let myself be deceived by all that sugar.
Oh, well, in a couple of hours, the nasty taste would slowly start to dissipate.
And after all that, I never did get my caffeine et al buzz!
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