Starbucks Juice Menu USA

Evolution Fresh is a cold-pressed juice company Starbucks bought in 2011 and sold in 2022, and the bottles have stayed in the case. Cold pressing means no heat, so the flavor is close to fresh fruit, and the sugar is whatever the fruit carries: 35 g in an 11 fl oz Evolution Fresh Pure Orange, which is a lot of oranges.

Pure Orange

The Evolution Fresh Pure Orange is orange juice and nothing else, 170 calories, $5.25. The breakfast juice.

Organic Defense Up

The Evolution Fresh Organic Defense Up is a smoothie of orange, apple, mango and pineapple juices with vitamin C, 170 calories and 37 g of sugar at $6.35.

Organic Super Fruit Greens

The Evolution Fresh Organic Super Fruit Greens blends mango and pineapple with spinach and kale, 180 calories, 3 g of protein. It tastes of fruit, not greens.

The Sol-ti shots are 2.1 fl oz bottles of cold-pressed organic ginger or turmeric with lemon and green apple, 20 calories each and $4.05. The Sol-ti GINGER SuperShot is sharp and warming; the Sol-ti TURMERIC SuperShot adds black pepper to the turmeric. They are the least sugar on the shelf at 4 g and 1 g.

The Tree Top Organic Apple Juice is a 6.75 fl oz organic apple juice box with a straw at $3.65, 100 calories and 23 g of sugar. It is the kids' juice and the one that pairs with a cake pop.

More than the bottles suggest. Cold-pressed juice keeps the vitamins and drops the fiber, so an 11 fl oz Evolution Fresh Pure Orange carries 35 g of sugar, about the same as a Grande lemonade Refresher, and the Evolution Fresh Organic Defense Up carries 37 g. None of it is added sugar, but the body does not treat fruit sugar in juice much differently from the sugar in a syrup once the fiber is gone.

The two Sol-ti shots sit at 4 g and 1 g because there is so little liquid in them. The apple juice box is the middle case at 23 g in under 7 ounces, which is why it is the one to hand a child rather than a full bottle.

A bottled juice is the only fruit drink in the store with no added sugar and no caffeine. A Grande Strawberry Açaí Refresher has 50 mg of caffeine and 21 g of sugar from a sweetened base; a Grande Lemonade has 27 g of added sugar. The juice costs more per ounce than either and tastes more of fruit. For a child or a caffeine-free order the apple box or the orange juice is the simpler choice; for a treat at the bar the Refresher.

The shots are meant to be drunk in one go, cold, before or after a coffee rather than mixed into one. Ginger with a black coffee is a common morning pairing; turmeric with a plain oatmeal is the other. Some customers ask the barista to pour a shot into a Venti water for a light ginger drink, which works and costs nothing extra. They are sold from the cold case only and are the item most often out of stock on this shelf, since stores order them in small quantities.

• Ginger for a sharp, warming shot; turmeric with black pepper for the earthier one.
• Both are organic, cold pressed, 20 calories and vegan.
• At $4.05 they cost as much as a Tall coffee for two ounces, so they are a habit purchase rather than a value one.
• Neither shot has caffeine, so they work at any hour, and both keep in a bag for the day if you do not drink them at the counter.
• The ginger is the stronger of the two by a wide margin; first-time buyers who dislike heat usually prefer the turmeric.

Cold-pressed juice is fruit sugar without the fiber, so the Evolution Fresh bottles carry as much sugar as a Grande Refresher. The shots are the exception. All juices declare none declared and contain no dairy, nuts or gluten.