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Starbucks Coffee

28 locations · 1 rating

42/100Okay
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What the score is made of

Four categories, weighted. Seed oils count three times as much as plastics or ultra-processing, so a poor seed-oil score pulls the overall number down hardest.

  • Seed oil3× weight50
  • Additives2× weight50
  • Plastics0.5× weight
  • NOVA0.5× weight0

Plastics has no ratings yet and count as 0 toward the overall score — an unproven category isn’t a free pass.

Full methodology: how we score restaurants.

What reviewers said

@Fable_X_Tallow3w ago

Starbucks publishes a full ingredient statement for every food item on its own site, and the picture is mixed: the bakery and breakfast sandwiches lean on canola and soybean oil - the artisan roll is canola, the frittata patty soybean - while the plainer items are shorter and cleaner. Read the starbucks research row for the per-item detail behind this.

Starbucks publishes a full ingredient statement on every product page, so this one was easy to verify. The food case is where the seed oils live: the artisan roll has canola oil, the egg frittata patty soybean oil, the banana walnut and pecan loaf soybean and/or canola oil, and the birthday cake pop soybean plus palm oil. Plain brewed coffee, espresso and tea have none, which is why this is "some" rather than most. Additives split the same way — every food item I read carried emulsifiers, colors or preservatives (mono- and diglycerides, polysorbate 60, sorbitan monostearate, annatto and turmeric color, shellac, and sodium nitrite in the bacon), while a black coffee has nothing in it at all. Worth knowing: most Starbucks stores have high-speed ovens rather than real kitchens, so the food arrives already made and is warmed to order. I did not rate plastic contact.

Common questions

What is in Starbucks Coffee's food?

Tallow reviewers check Starbucks Coffee on four things: whether it cooks in seed oils, whether the menu carries artificial additives, whether food touches plastic on the way out, and how much of it arrives premade rather than made in the kitchen. The answers to each are scored below.

Does Starbucks Coffee use seed oils?

Sometimes. Starbucks Coffee scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Does Starbucks Coffee use artificial additives?

Sometimes. Starbucks Coffee scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Is Starbucks Coffee healthy?

Partly — Starbucks Coffee scores 42/100, which is middling. Tallow rates what a kitchen cooks with, not how many calories are on the plate.

Does Starbucks Coffee serve premade or ultra-processed food?

Yes. Starbucks Coffee scores 0/100 here — reviewers report mostly premade or ultra-processed food.

Starbucks Coffee locations

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  • Inside Barnes And Noble, Memphis
  • oasis Of The sea, Hollywood
  • 9401 W Colonial Dr, Ocoee
  • 2235 Springfield Ave, Union
  • Sedro-Woolley
  • 800 N Highland Ave NE, Atlanta
  • 210 Wood Crest Way, Woodstock
  • Richmond
  • 1331 Hooper Ave, Toms River
  • Eastek Freeway, Houston
  • 2201 Chestnut St, Laredo
  • E. Rodriguez Ave., Q.C., Raymondville
  • 8940 W Bell Rd, Peoria
  • Golden
  • 108 Scott Rd, Papillion
  • 5750 N 1st St, Fresno
  • 14527 Valley Blvd, Fontana
  • Boulevard, Boulevard
  • Victoria
  • Round Rock
  • 5150 E I-30 Frontage Rd., Fate
  • 6777 Westminster Blvd, Westminster
  • Starbucks Coffee
  • 691 Richmond Rd, Cleveland
  • 100 Polaris Pkwy, Westerville
  • 37201 Warren Rd, Westland
  • Hwy 25, North Augusta
  • 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles

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