Starbust.You're in line at Starbucks, thinking of having a little something with your coffee. You could go for a real splurge, like a Chocolate Chocolate Cupcake, an Espresso Brownie, or a Glazed glaze n. 1. A thin smooth shiny coating. 2. A thin glassy coating of ice. 3. a. A coating of colored, opaque, or transparent material applied to ceramics before firing. b. Doughnut. But why not stick with some thing more sensible, like an Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Noun 1. raisin cookie - cookie containing raisins cookie, cooky, biscuit - any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) ? It sounds like a bowl of cereal, for heaven's sake. It isn't. Each 31/2-ounce cookie is likely to have some 400 calories. (Outlets buy their baked goods locally. We found cookies ranging from 350 to 530 calories in the two dozen Starbucks we looked at.) That's as much as the doughnut, and more than the cupcake or brownie (about 350 calories each). It's in Quarter Pounder The Quarter Pounder is a sandwich sold by international fast food chain McDonald's. Along with the Big Mac, it is one of McDonald's two signature products. Product description territory ... and not just for your waistline. A Quarter Pounder at McDonald's has 7 grams of saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be plus 1 gram of trans fat trans fat n. 1. A trans fatty acid. 2. Trans fatty acids considered as a group. trans fat A fat containing trans fatty acids. . The Oatmeal Raisins we found ranged from 7 grams of sat fat and no trans in some locations to 21/2 grams of sat plus 41/2 grams of trans in others. (Starbucks says that trans fat is now gone from the cookies in more than 50 percent of its outlets.) If you want something sweet at Starbucks, try a (non-dipped) Vanilla Almond Biscotti Biscotti (plural of Italian biscotto, roughly meaning "twice baked") are crisp Italian cookies often containing nuts or flavored with anise. Traditionally, biscotti are made by baking cookie dough in two long slabs, cutting these into slices, and reheating them to dry (140 calories, 2 grams of sat fat, and no trans fat). Right now, the only way to really find out what's in the sweets at your local Starbucks is to hunt around on starbucks.com. Wouldn't it be nice if at least calories were on the menu board? Starbucks: (800) 235-2883 |
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