Is Starbucks Caramel latte ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 12 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Skimmed Milk Powder (processing marker) 39%, Sugar (processing marker), Glucose Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Coffee 5.8% (Instant Coffee 5.7%, Roast and Ground Coffee), Coconut Oil (processing marker), Lactose (ultra-processing marker), Natural Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Acidity Regulators (Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid)
Additives: E330 Citric acid , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Skimmed Milk Powder 39%, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Coffee 5.8% (Instant Coffee 5.7%, Roast and Ground Coffee), Coconut Oil, Lactose (Milk), Natural Flavouring, Acidity Regulators (Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid)
What makes it ultra-processed
Cosmetic additives
Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
Substances rarely used in home kitchens
Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
3 ingredients that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 97 coffee drinks
From least to most processed, this one ranks 73rd. 72% of the coffee drinks here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8445290041302, last edited 4 July 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.