Starbucks Pink Drink and its cheaper and healthier homemade versions

Starbucks Pink Drink is a popular beverage. But you can recreate it at home in lesser cost and with lesser sugar using only three or four ingredients. The recipe for it went viral on TikTok recently. Moreover, Eating well website also has a healthy recipe for this drink. Why not try it?

Starbucks Pink Drink

Starbucks Pink Drink goes by the name of Pink Drink Starbucks Refreshers Beverage. It is available at most Starbucks outlets in the world. And there are four size options in it. One can choose tall (which is 12 fluid oz volume), grande (which is 16 fl oz), venti (which is 24 fl oz) and trenta (which is 30 fl oz).

This drink contains strawberries/dragon fruit or pineapple and coconut milk. And one can customize the ratio of these for their glass of the drink. There are added flavors in it. One can also choose the toppings for it from chocolate cream cold foam, cinnamon sweet cream cold foam, pistachio cream cold foam, salted caramel cream cold foam or vanilla sweet cream cold foam.

Juice added could be apple juice or peach juice blend. There could be a splash of tea in it with or without ice. And one can choose the sweetener of their choice such as cane sugar, corn syrup or honey blend. The simple drink which is uncustomized has 140 calories.

The viral TikTok similar drink

TikTok creator Moro @morocooks recreated this drink at home. It has four ingredients in it and is cheaper and budget friendly. The cost comes to one quarter of the price you pay for it at the outlet. Moreover, it is healthier with less sugar. The video garnered five million views in two days.

Moro uses 3 parts of Ocean Spray’s White Cran-Strawberry juice with 1 part of coconut milk to make it. This has ice in it. Further, he adds freeze-dried strawberries and half tsp of green coffee bean extract. He mixes all these up well and serves.

The original drink cost is $5.45 while the homemade version costs only $1.57. Moro explains that the drink is simple and easy to make and tastes the same. One cannot tell the difference between the original and the homemade version of the drink.

Eating well’s copycat pink drink

Eating Well’s recipe is also almost similar. It has unsweetened light coconut milk with passion fruit juice and strawberries. The frozen seedless passion fruit seems better because it converts the drink into a tangier and creamier drink. Additionally, it does not contain green coffee bean extract. Therefore, it is decaffeinated and can be taken any time of the day or night. It has just ten grams of sugar while the Starbucks pink drink has twenty five grams of sugar.

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Besides serving at the outlet, Starbucks is also bringing the pink drink to the store. Why not opt for the homemade versions of these drinks that are healthier and economical too?