Sneak attack
3 Sep
We’re so excited to welcome Snack Girl to the Wellness Bitch blog today. Are you surprised that someone who blogs about healthy snacks has a beef with McDonald’s? Read on.
How do you get 560 calories into a 16 ounce drink? That takes the talent of a major global corporation: McDonald’s (of course).
The McDonald’s Frappe?is on billboards, on the radio, on the internet, and I even heard they were giving out FREE ones at my local McD’s.
How is a girl supposed to avoid all that advertising?
I succumbed one day when my kids asked to go to the famous McD’s play space. It is a rare treat, and I get to listen to traffic while they scream delightedly at going down a long covered slide.
Also, I wanted to try this Frappe?. I figured I needed a coffee and it was my snack time. Usually, my snack time has about 100 to 200 calories depending on how hungry I am and what I had for lunch. When I asked at the counter, they didn’t know how many calories were in the Frappe?(and they didn’t know what was in it).
It tasted delicious. The mixologists at McDonald’s really know their stuff. When I came home, I checked the calorie content and was absolutely blown away. 560 CALORIES, 24 GRAMS OF FAT, 70 GRAMS OF SUGAR – wow!
Honestly, I thought I was ordering a coffee drink with some added sugar – not a CREAM drink with some added coffee!!!!
The second ingredient in a McD’s Frappe is cream. I looked on their website. And, it takes talent to get high fructose corn syrup listed 3 times on an ingredient list.
My advice is to stay FAR AWAY from the Frappe and stick with coffee.
Lisa Cain, Ph.D. writes about healthy snacks on Snack-Girl.com. She is a published author, mother of two, and an avid snacker
When I first saw a commercial for the Frappé, I looked up the ingredients and a similar reaction to yours. If I remember correctly, the coffee ingredient was “coffee extract” and, while I’m not exactly sure what that is, is sounds different than just plain coffee. For comparison, I tried to find Starbucks Frappaccino ingredients, but I couldn’t. Makes me wonder if it’s not all that different.
I found one version of the frappachino, although I’m only pretty sure and not entirely sure that it’s the in-store kind and not the bottles. Also, a tall is the small size, and if you don’t specify your size they’re going to give you a grande (medium).
http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-starbucks-coffee-frappuccino-i6
WOW… what size is that for anyway!?! YIKES!!!
Thank you so much for laying this out really clearly. I guess I just wonder how many chances Mc’D's deserves to dupe us into eating there. It just isn’t good food. It just isn’t.