Starbucks Tea Menu USA

Tea at Starbucks is a bigger menu than most customers notice, because it is four different things sharing a word. Chai is a sweetened spiced black tea concentrate mixed with milk. Matcha is green tea powder whisked into milk. Brewed tea is a Teavana sachet in hot water. Iced tea is a shaken concentrate, plain or with lemonade. Each has its own sections, and they have almost nothing in common on the nutrition panel.

The 44 items in the category run from 0 to 400 calories in a Grande, and the reason for that spread is milk, syrup and cold foam, never the tea itself.

Starbucks chai is a concentrate of black tea, cinnamon, cardamom, clove and ginger, already sweetened, mixed with steamed or cold milk. The Classic Chai section holds the hot Chai Latte and the Iced Chai Latte; the Specialty Chai section adds cold foams and seasonal syrups on top; the Chaider is a single shaken drink of chai and apple.

Is a chai latte sweet?

Yes, by default. A Grande Chai Latte carries 31 g of sugar from the concentrate and the milk. Fewer pumps of chai is the only way to bring it down; there is no unsweetened concentrate.

How much caffeine is in chai?

55 mg in a Grande, about a third of a latte. A dirty chai, with a shot added, roughly doubles it.

Matcha is the green tea leaf ground fine and whisked into milk, so you drink the whole leaf. The Classic Matcha section is the plain hot and iced lattes and the crème Frappuccino; Specialty Matcha is the same iced matcha under seven flavored foams; Protein Matcha is the 2025 protein line built on protein milk.

Is Starbucks matcha sweetened?

The powder in US stores is now unsweetened and the sweetness comes from classic syrup, which means fewer pumps is finally an option. A Grande Iced Matcha Latte is 25 g of sugar as built.

Does matcha have more caffeine than coffee?

No. A Grande Matcha Latte is 65 mg against 150 mg for a latte. An extra scoop raises it.

How much protein is in a protein matcha?

28 g in a Grande hot and 31 g iced, from fortified protein milk rather than powder.

Brewed Tea is the lightest section in the store: six Teavana sachets, five of them at zero calories, from the black Royal English Breakfast Tea at 40 mg of caffeine down to the herbal Mint Majesty Tea at none. The Honey Citrus Mint Tea, the former Medicine Ball, is the one with calories at 130. The Tea Latte and Iced Tea Latte sections are the London Fog, Earl Grey with vanilla and milk, hot and cold.

Which hot tea is caffeine free?

Mint Majesty Tea. Every other sachet, including the chamomile blend, uses a green or black tea base with some caffeine.

The Iced Tea section is shaken tea over ice in black, green, peach green and the caffeine-free Passion Tango, each plain or with lemonade, all of them up to the 30 oz Trenta. Starbucks stopped sweetening iced tea by default in 2018, so the plain builds are 0 calories and the lemonade builds carry the sugar.

Is Starbucks iced tea sweetened?

Not unless you ask for liquid cane sugar. The lemonade versions are sweet because the lemonade is: a Grande Iced Peach Green Tea Lemonade is 18 g.

Nothing on the tea menu reaches half the caffeine of a Grande brewed coffee. The matcha and chai drinks lead, the brewed blacks follow, and the Passion Tango and Mint Majesty are the two true caffeine-free orders.

The plain brewed and iced teas are effectively free on the panel. Among the milk teas, the Iced London Fog Latte at 140 calories and the Iced Sugar-Free Vanilla Protein Matcha at 10 g of sugar are the lightest ways to get a creamy tea drink.

This is the number that separates the tea menu. Brewed and plain iced tea carry none. A chai latte carries 31 g in a Grande, a matcha latte 29 g, a London Fog 29 g. The cold foam builds go higher: the Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai is 55 g and the Iced Banana Bread Chai 48 g. A Trenta lemonade tea roughly doubles its Grande figure.

If you want a tea that is actually light, order brewed or plain iced; those sections are the reason the tea menu has a reputation for being the healthy corner. If you want a creamy tea drink, the London Fog and the plain matcha are the moderate ones, the chai is sweeter, and the cold foam builds are desserts. Caffeine is modest across the board, and two drinks carry none at all.

Availability of the seasonal chais and matchas changes through the year, so check the app before a special trip. The section pages carry every size.