Starbucks Greek Style Yogurt with Berries & Granola

Starbucks Greek Style Yogurt with Berries and Granola costs £4.70 and carries 241 calories with 11g of protein. Reduced fat Greek style yogurt, mixed berry compote and roasted pumpkin seed granola, topped with dried cranberries and seeds.

11g of protein is the reason to pick this pot. It is double what the overnight oats carry at a near identical calorie count, and it is more than any pastry on the menu. For a cold breakfast that will actually hold until lunch, this is the one on the shelf that does it.

19g of sugar is the cost of that, and it is the highest of the two cold breakfasts. Very little comes from the yogurt itself. The berry compote, the concentrated fruit in the granola and the dried sweetened cranberries on top each add their own, and the cranberries are sweetened rather than plain, which is a detail worth knowing if you assume dried fruit means unadulterated fruit.

Fibre is low at 1.7g, half what the overnight oats manage, because granola is mostly oats bound in syrup rather than whole grain in volume. Salt sits at 0.17g, which is nothing, and saturated fat at 3.9g is well below both the pastries and the coconut based pot.

Greek style is not the same as Greek, and the words are regulated differently. Genuine Greek yogurt is strained, which is what concentrates the protein; Greek style describes a thick yogurt that may have been thickened another way. The 11g of protein here suggests real straining has happened, which is the figure to judge it by rather than the name.

It carries a vegetarian label and lists milk, oat and sulphites as allergens; the sulphites come from the dried fruit. Prices reach £5.40 on delivery. The egg bites carry more protein again at 13g for 177 calories.