300 Starbucks switch to 2%-fat milk for lattes

Nation's Restaurant News,  Feb 19, 2007  

Tags: Starbucks Corp.

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Seattle -- Starbucks Corp. is replacing the whole milk in caffe lattes and other barista-made coffee drinks with 2-percent-fat milk at 300 coffeehouses in four test markets, according to a report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

The reduced-fat milk lowers the calorie content of a Grande-size caffe latte by 30 calories, a Starbucks official told the newspaper. The test began recently in Orange County, Calif.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Oregon; and London, Ontario.

According to the website Calorie-Count.com, a Grande caffe latte from Starbucks made with whole milk contains 9 grams of saturated fat, or 45 percent of the daily allowance for a 2,000-calorie diet, and has 260 calories, 126 of them from fat.

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