The Calorie-Count.com website claims the following...
A Tall (12oz) Non-fat Caffè Latte apparently has 126 calories. 0g of Fat, 12g of Protein, and 18g of Carbs, of which 16g are Sugars.
A Tall (12oz) Soy Latte has 162 calories, 5g of Fat (1g Saturated), 8g of Protein, and 22g of Carbs (1g Dietary Fiber, 17g Sugars)
At Starbucks' website I was able to pull up the following information.
Tall Non-fat Caffè Latte - 100 calories, 0g fat, 10g of Protein, and 15g of Carbs (14g from Sugars).
Tall Soy Latte - 130 calories, 4g of fat (0.5g Saturated), 7g Protein, 18g Carbs (14g from Sugars).
Now I don't drink Tall drinks, I drink Grande, and according to Starbucks,
my Grande Non-Fat Caffè Latte has 130 Calories, 13g Proteins, and 19g Carbs (18g from Sugars)
While the Grande Soy Latte 170 Calories, 4.5g Fat (0.5g Saturated), 9g Protein, 23g Carbs (17g from Sugars).
Oddly enough the Calorie-Count.com website's figures for Tall Lattes are very close to Starbucks figures for their Grande drinks. Do we believe Starbucks? Or Calorie-count.com? Or do we hazard a guess that someone at Calorie-Count.com entered the Grande figures for Tall-sized drinks? And why are both of these figures different from those I found last month on a third website?
Regardless of who's right or wrong, what this all boils down to is that I was about to go and get a Soy Latte but I've changed my mind; I'm sticking with my Non-fat Caffè Latte, Grande of course ;)
Although, I just noticed the Café Au Lait stats.
70 Calories (almost half that of my Caffé Latte), 0g Fat, 7g Protein (but who drinks coffee for Protein?). 10g Carbs, all of it sugar, but again close to half that of my Caffé Latte.
I think I'll give a non-Fat Grande Café Au Lait a try.
Of course an Americano has even less calories, carbs, etc, but with it I'll need to add Creamer & Sugar which defeats the purpose of getting the lower calorie drink in the first place.
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And there we go. A Café Au Lait is half & half; half coffee, half milk, so naturally it has half the calories because almost all the calories in coffee come from the milk.
It apparently also has twice as much caffeine as a latte, perhaps a double shot versus a latte's single shot. So I get more coffee flavor, with less guilt. And I didn't add any sugar, not even a couple of sachets of brown sugar, so I avoided a couple of grams of carbs there. I assume one sachet of regular sugar = 1g of sugar carbs.
Exactly! Drinking just water and coffee is barbaric ;)
I think the only thing Soy that I can willingly put into myself is Sauce. The thought of it being in milk and various other just turns me off. I like to eat and live healthy but to me that's over the top. God put cows on the planet for a reason.
Bumper sticker I once read:
"If we're not supposed to eat cows then why did God make them out of meat?"
Ha! Sub in milk as well.
Love my whole milk in moderation.
I did a Starbucks run yesterday after lunch, and one of the girls who loves Starbucks' Caramel Macchiato but is dieting went to yet another website. I think it was www.calorieking.com and the figures they quoted matched those at Starbucks.com. So with the figures at the official website being backed up by figures at a third-party website, I'm inclined to go with the official figures, even if other third party websites disagree because they also don't agree with each other.
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