Unicorn Starbucks drink; is it as good as it looks?

The Unicorn drink made its debut at Starbucks nationwide.

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The Unicorn drink made its debut at Starbucks nationwide.

Summer Ericson, Staff Writer

The American Heart Association suggests that daily amount of sugar should be around 25 grams for women and 37 grams for men. Starbucks has created a drink that will not only fulfill this daily dose of sugar in a 16 oz cup, but will also make you feel closer to your true unicorn-like self.

The new Unicorn Starbucks drink became a nation-wide craze after the ingredients and nutrition were released. This eye-appealing drink looks and tastes like heaven to many, but the lame health freaks have ruined our happiness and said that it contains “too much sugar.” The grande (medium) sized drink contains 59 grams of sugar– more than twice our suggested daily intake. According to Yahoo Health, the grande-sized drink is 410 calories and contains 16 grams of fat. The drink’s ingredients are everything that we expected 59 grams of sugar to be: ice, milk, creme frappuccino syrup, mango syrup, blue drizzle (which contains white chocolate mocha sauce, classic syrup and sour blue powder), pink powder, sour blue powder and whipped cream.

The drink looks delicious, but many people were thrown off by its sour taste. Junior Sydney Siegel recently tried the drink and had some mixed feelings about it.

“It looks way better than it tastes,” said Siegel. “I did not like it at all. I didn’t expect it to be a mango, sour flavor.”

This drink is not the only extremely unhealthy drinks that Starbucks has, though. The peppermint white chocolate mocha, a popular holiday drink at Starbucks, has a staggering 11 grams of fat and is 460 calories in a grande size, according to MSN Lifestyle. Many people forget how unhealthy the delicious drinks are. According to the Daily Meal, some drinks at Starbucks contain more fat and cholesterol than a McDonalds Big Mac.

If you are a health freak, or you just do not want to consume more than twice your daily dosage of sugar, straying from the unicorn drink would be a good choice.