Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino Blended Beverage

The Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino costs £5.80 for a Tall and carries 330 calories in a Grande. Mocha sauce, Frappuccino Roast coffee, milk and ice are blended together and topped with whipped cream.

Mocha sauce blends into a Frappuccino better than it mixes into a hot drink. Cold and under agitation it disperses completely, so the colour comes out evenly dark and there is none of the settling that makes an iced mocha taste different at the top and the bottom. The bitterness in the sauce also has more work to do here, because the blended base is sweeter than milk alone, and it is what keeps the drink from reading as a chocolate milkshake.

Sugar is 37.6g in a Grande out of 39g of carbohydrate, and fat is 16.5g with 11.4g saturated. Calories run 251 in a Tall, 330 in a Grande and 377 in a Venti. Caffeine is 30mg in a Grande, which comes from the Frappuccino Roast with a small amount from the cocoa in the sauce.

It also holds together better than the caramel version does as it melts. Cocoa solids carry enough body to keep the blend thick for a few minutes past the point where a syrup based Frappuccino has separated into milk and slush. That does not make it a drink to carry around, but it is the more forgiving of the two if it has to wait on a table for a while.

The whipped cream is worth roughly 80 calories and over half the saturated fat, and it is the change that costs the drink least. This is the Frappuccino to order for anyone who finds the caramel version too sweet, since the cocoa gives it somewhere to push back. The Coffee Frappuccino is the plain base, and the Caramel Mocha Cloud Frappuccino combines both flavours at 418 calories.