Starbucks Still Lemonade 330ml

Still Lemonade 330ml costs £3.05 at Starbucks UK and carries 8 calories with 0.7g of sugar. It is a still lemonade made from Spanish lemons, and it is the lowest sugar flavoured drink Starbucks sells.

That figure is the reason to know about this bottle. 0.7g of sugar sits against 14g in the Raspberry Lemonade, 16g in the peach iced tea and 17g in the VITWATER, all of which look like comparable choices in the fridge door. Nothing else on the shelf gives you a flavoured drink for under a gram, and at 8 calories it is nearer water than juice.

Sweetness has to come from somewhere at that sugar level, and here it comes from sweeteners rather than sugar. That is worth saying plainly because it changes who the drink suits: anyone avoiding sugar for medical or dietary reasons is well served, and anyone who avoids sweeteners specifically will want the raspberry version or a juice instead. The label in store carries the current ingredient list.

Still rather than sparkling means no carbonation, so this is flat lemonade in the traditional cloudy sense rather than a fizzy drink. It is sharper than most people expect on the first mouthful because there is no sugar mass to round the lemon off, and that sharpness is exactly what makes it work alongside food.

It is also the drink in the fridge that works best with food, and the sugar figure is why. Sweet drinks compete with whatever you are eating; a sharp, barely sweetened one resets the palate between mouthfuls instead. Alongside anything from the savoury case it does a job no juice on the shelf can.

It carries vegan and vegetarian labels. Prices run to £4.10 on delivery, which is the widest spread of any bottle in the fridge, so this is one to buy at the counter. The ONE Water at £2.55 remains the only genuinely zero option.