Birthday Cake Pop

2 g protein · 171 cals · 41 g*

Why this score

engineered against fullness

Concentrated sugar, with little protein or fiber to slow it down; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

4% of kcal

25% water

1 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

62%

56%

How scores work

Per

Calories: 171
Protein: (4%); 2 g
Fat: (52%); 10 g
Carbohydrates: (44%); 19 g
of which sugar: 8 g
Fiber: <1 g
Sodium: 84 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Starbuckspublishes this item's nutrition but not what it weighs, so the portion above is worked back from the energy density of coffee cake (418 kcal per 100 g). That assumption moves the energy-density and sodium figures; the protein, fibre and craving parts of the score are ratios of calories and are unaffected.

Alternatives

Starbucks

Higher-scoring, from Starbucks’ own “Bakery” in United Kingdom.

The same item, other countries

Same name, same chain, different kitchen. This is why the country is part of the address here.

Nutrition as published by Starbucks — check it yourself. Product photograph © Starbucks, shown to identify the item. The score measures satiety per calorie. It is not a virtue scale, and no food here is forbidden. How the score works.

All 119 items on the United Kingdom Starbucks menu