So i found myself at Starbucks today and tried this.
That image is actually how I found this site. A friend showed me it and its from tea muse and I found myself here.
So uhh ... today. Right. Today I tried raspberry green tea frappacino. And I must say. It was simply wonderful.
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I tried and enjoyed the Green Tea Frappuccino. But I didn't approach it with expectations of it tasting like green tea. (I know better than to expect that from Starbucks!)
It's a very sweet, sugary drink with a canteloupe / honeydew melon flavor to it (a flavored syrup, I believe, that they add to the drink). It has a very marginally vegetal flavor; I think that this is the matcha they use to make it. It's been a while since I had it but as I recall, they make it almost like an iced smoothie and they put whipped cream on top.
So my opinion is that as a tea drink, it sucks, but as a sugary-sweet drink, it's enjoyable.
It's a very sweet, sugary drink with a canteloupe / honeydew melon flavor to it (a flavored syrup, I believe, that they add to the drink). It has a very marginally vegetal flavor; I think that this is the matcha they use to make it. It's been a while since I had it but as I recall, they make it almost like an iced smoothie and they put whipped cream on top.
So my opinion is that as a tea drink, it sucks, but as a sugary-sweet drink, it's enjoyable.
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the unfortunate thing about the green tea frappuccino is just that--it's a frappuccino. which means it's made with the same loaded-calorie cream base as all the other non-coffee frappuccinos. we do use a starbucks matcha tea to make it, but i'm not a fan of it--extremely vegetal taste when used on its own. that's why the recipe calls for adding the honeydew melon syrup, which is all i can personally taste in the green tea frappuccinos.
if you don't like the calories/additives of frappuccinos, though, you can trust the iced green tea and the green tea lemonades. sweetened, the barista will add a couple of pumps of unflavored syrup, but if you ask for it unsweetened, you get our plain, brewed-to-ice tazo zen green tea. you can get the green tea lemonades unsweetened too, but of course there will be the natural sweetener of the lemonade, which is about one part to the two parts tea, and the lemonade starbucks uses has only natural sugars, i think.
to make it short: starbucks will never have a healthy frappuccino. go for the iced tea.
the unfortunate thing about the green tea frappuccino is just that--it's a frappuccino. which means it's made with the same loaded-calorie cream base as all the other non-coffee frappuccinos. we do use a starbucks matcha tea to make it, but i'm not a fan of it--extremely vegetal taste when used on its own. that's why the recipe calls for adding the honeydew melon syrup, which is all i can personally taste in the green tea frappuccinos.
if you don't like the calories/additives of frappuccinos, though, you can trust the iced green tea and the green tea lemonades. sweetened, the barista will add a couple of pumps of unflavored syrup, but if you ask for it unsweetened, you get our plain, brewed-to-ice tazo zen green tea. you can get the green tea lemonades unsweetened too, but of course there will be the natural sweetener of the lemonade, which is about one part to the two parts tea, and the lemonade starbucks uses has only natural sugars, i think.
to make it short: starbucks will never have a healthy frappuccino. go for the iced tea.
Ah, raspberry green tea frappuccino, that must have been what my friend was drinking. I was too disturbed by the colour to ask, and I never set foot inside a Starbucks. Good thing I visit adagio, or I'd never know!
' '...why this pain? If it would only cease just for a moment!' and he moaned. Peter turned towards him. 'It's all right. Go and fetch me some tea.' '
-The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
-The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy