Calories, fat, and cost aside I have been drinking Starbucks for years. One of my favorite things about Starbucks has been the ability to customize your creation to (try) to make something which is both delicious and not completely disastrous to your health. My drink of choice has always been a non-fat vanilla latte. I find I really don’t miss the fat in the milk at all, and it ‘gets the job done’ on a cold Ohio morning. Recently I went to my local Starbucks and noticed new menu items called Skinny drinks. Here is the skinny on skinny.
A skinny drink, which comes in Skinny Latte, Skinny Caramel Latte, Skinny Hazelnut Latte, Skinny Cinnamon Dolce Latte, and Skinny Vanilla Latte are the same as the original flavors except for two major differences. First, the skinny lattes incorporate non-fat milk into the beverage, and second the skinny lattes use sugar-free flavored syrup instead of the regular sugared kind. So basically a skinny vanilla latte is the same as ordering a non-fat, sugar-free, vanilla latte (But with fewer words).
At 130 calories and 0g of fat for a 16oz skinny latte, this seems like a no-brainer compared to 250 calories and 6g of fat for the ‘non-skinny version’. Still, keep in mind that 130 calories is quite a bit for a beverage so moderation (like with anything) is king here. All in all I honestly can’t tell the difference in taste between the skinny vanilla latte, and the regular vanilla latte and to me that is the sweetest part of all.
-Drew