We Asked Starbucks Why Their 'Sugar-Free' Drinks Have Sugar

Next: Gluten free bread made of 100% wheat flour. Well of course there's naturally occuring gluten, but we didn't add it as a seperate ingredient.

If you want to see what end game Starbucks looks like, Dunkin' Donuts is probably a good place to start. They're on the border of selling products with 200g of sugar in a single cup. Getting close to half a pound. We measure our cheese burgers in units like this. Maybe it's time to start measuring coffee this way too.

TLDR: Starbucks are using the term "Sugar-Free" when they mean “no added sugar” although there's sugar naturally in the ingredients.

I'm not sure how anyone can argue that isn't clearly breaking FDA guidance of containing less than 0.5g of sugar:

https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...

Also I question how can you have sugar-free caramel? Caramel is browned sugar so I would expect it to have sugar. Maybe in this too should terms like "caramel like flavour" be mandated...

I’m trying to visualize the argument made that this was okay. I can’t.

Because artificial sweeteners taste vile.