Have you tried the Dunkin Donut’s Pumpkin Latte? Is it good? It better be with all the sugar they dump in it. They put 51 grams of sugar in their medium, that’s too much in my opinion. Consider the following, the average can of soda contains 39 grams of sugar, this means the DD latte has 33% more sugar than a can of soda. So if you thought drinking soda was bad you’re going to want to consider not drinking this.

If sugar isn’t a concern to you perhaps the whopping 330 calories is. If you ate a 350 calorie breakfast and then you bought this on your way to work you’re looking at ingesting 680 calories before you start your day. The recommended daily dose of calories is 2000. So let’s do the math… you eat breakfast and have a Dunkin Donut’s Pumpkin Latte and you’re at 680 calories, subtract that from 2000 and you have 1320 calories remaining for the rest of the day. That’s not very many considering lunch and dinner tend to be larger meals.

Ok, so let’s say you skip breakfast all together and just drink your tasty drink. Not as many calories, good deal you think. Wrong! That 330 calorie drink is mostly sugar with a side of fat. You won’t find anything of substance in there. Good luck making it to lunch without grabbing something to eat and my bet is that if you skipped breakfast and choose this drink as the substitute your before lunch snack probably isn’t baby carrots.

So do yourself a favor and start the day right. Wake up 10 minutes early tomorrow and make some coffee (don’t add to much sugar though) and have some healthy cereal. The blackened coffee and whole-grain cereal might not taste as good as the pumpkin latte but I assure you your body will appreciate it, if not now it will the next time you get your vitals checked at your doctors office.

Think otherwise, let me know.