First bottled Frappuccinos made with Oat milk are coming soon from Starbucks, the world's largest coffee chain, People can buy Starbucks Frapuccino with Oatmilk drinks that are ready to drink. They come in two delicious flavors: Caramel Waffle Cookie and Dark Chocolate Brownie.
The Starbucks vice president of channel development in the Americas said in a statement that the company has been a leader in the ready-to-drink coffee category since 1994, and that the company is still working on new beverage ideas with the best coffee and ingredients. Customers can now get their favorite Starbucks drinks in new flavors and formats, like Starbucks Cold & Crafted on Tap, Starbucks Frappuccino with Oatmilk, or Starbucks Cold & Crafted on Bottle.
Besides the new Frappuccinos made with oat milk, Starbucks is also making cold brew with oat milk in dark chocolate flavor that will be sold in stores, grocery stores, convenience stores, and gas stations by the end of the year. There will be oat milk Frappuccinos and oat milk cold brew, as well as Starbucks' first line of energy drinks called Baya Energy. They come in Mango Guava, Raspberry Lime, and Pineapple Passionfruit flavors.
Starbucks is getting into oat milk now.
New dairy-free Frappuccinos were made by the coffee company after it found that oat milk worked well in its 9,000 US stores. During a test run in the Midwest, the chain added Oatly's oat milk to its national menu in March of 2021. A new drink called the Iced Brown Sugar Shaken Oatmilk Espresso is made with brown sugar and cinnamon and then topped with oat milk. It's one of the new drinks that Starbucks now has. Some Starbucks stores ran out of oat milk by April because of the drink's popularity and other factors.
While ready-to-drink oat milk is on sale. A new drink from Starbucks called Frappuccinos is a first for the company, but the chain's packaged goods arm has been looking into dairy-free drinks for a few years now. There were two new flavors of bottled Frappuccinos made with almond milk in 2019: vanilla and mocha. They were made with almond milk instead of dairy, and they were sold in cans.
Starting in August of 2021, Starbucks will be selling a new vegan creamer that is based on one of fall's favorite drinks. A non-dairy creamer called Pumpkin Spice Flavored Non-Dairy Creamer was made to taste just like the PSL. It used almond and oat milk to make it creamy without using any dairy. Unfortunately, its in-store PSL, even though it had been reformulated for European markets, still had dairy in its US stores for the 2021 season, even though it had been changed.
A vegan fee must be dropped by Starbucks if the company wants to meet its climate goals.
Starbucks wants to cut its carbon footprint by 50% by 2030. The main source of that carbon is dairy, so the company is relying on plant-based milks, like oat milk, to help it achieve its goals. This is what a study from Oxford University found in 2018. It found that oat milk is a better option because it produces only one-third of the carbon emissions of large-scale dairy, and it takes up less land and water than dairy.
All of the plant-based milk prices at Starbucks have been dropped in the United Kingdom. This is so that people don't have to pay extra to make climate-friendly choices because of costs. In fact, some activists say that if the company made this move a system-wide policy that applied to all of its more than 32,000 locations around the world, it would have the most effect.
It's a nonprofit called Switch4Good that was started by Olympian advocate Dotsie Bausch. They sent an open letter to CEO Kevin R. Johnson and the company's global chief of inclusion and diversity, Dennis Brockman, in the US. It was published this week in the coffee chain's home newspaper, the Seattle Times, and the letter, which was signed by 22 doctors and athletes, asks Starbucks to stop charging extra for dairy-free substitutes around the world. The letter points to things like ending dietary racism and making more environmentally-friendly choices as the reasons for the change.
Letter: Swtich4Good recently ran a Justice Cup campaign that said that people of color pay more for vegan milk because most of them are lactose intolerant. The open letter comes after that campaign. Campaign: Even though there isn't any proof that the Justice Cup campaign and Starbucks UK's new policy are linked, the campaign went live right before Starbucks dropped its vegan milk surcharge for customers in Britain.