Most Popular Starbucks Syrups

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Starbucks flavors and sweetens their drinks like iced coffees and lattes using syrups and sauces. See which Starbucks flavors are the most popular and get tips on how to customize your drink!

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Starbucks Syrups

  • Starbucks makes their flavored drinks like Vanilla Latte using syrups, which flavor and sweeten a regular latte or iced coffee.
  • Any syrup available can be added to any drink to customize it the way you like.
  • The number of syrups change throughout the year as new drinks are introduced or when seasonal syrups like pumpkin spice are added.
  • Starbucks sauces are thicker and usually made with nonfat milk (except for the mocha sauce). Starbucks syrups are thinner and more watery, which makes them easier to mix into drinks, and usually don’t contain any dairy.
  • It’s rumored that Starbucks syrups and sauces are made by a company called Fontana.
  • Sugar free cinnamon dolce syrup is discontinued due to low customer demand. The only other sugar free option is the sugar free vanilla syrup, which is made using sucralose.

Buying Starbucks Syrups

If you want to recreate Starbucks drinks at home, you can buy their syrups directly at a store by asking at the register. They can only sell the syrups if they have enough in stock and not all syrups are available for purchase. I’ve seen Starbucks syrups on Amazon and Ebay priced at $30+ but it costs half that at a Starbucks location.

A syrup must have a barcode for it to be sold to a customer. Vanilla syrup, sugar free vanilla syrup, classic syrup, and caramel syrup are the only syrups with barcodes. Seasonal syrups are never available for purchase.

You’ll have the most luck with vanilla syrup since it’s the most popular and stores usually have extras in stock.

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Starbucks Syrups, Ranked

16. Raspberry Syrup
Make Cotton Candy Frappuccino, a Starbucks secret menu drink, by adding this syrup to a Vanilla Bean Frappuccino. Add it to iced tea to make an iced raspberry black tea.

15. Toffee Nut Syrup
The only menu item that’s made with this syrup is the Salted Caramel Mocha, a seasonal drink. It’s not a popular syrup during most of the year but it’s very popular in the colder months.

14. Brown Sugar Syrup
This was used to make the Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso and thanks to TikTok, it’s often added to Hot and Iced Chai Lattes as it’s said to make it taste like cookie butter.

13. Dark Caramel Sauce
This syrup is seasonal and is rarely ordered on its own. It’s used in the Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino.

12. Peppermint Syrup
Most ordered with Mocha Syrup to make a peppermint mocha drink, it’s sometimes ordered on its own in iced coffees. There are several secret menu Frappuccinos that use peppermint syrup, most of which are popular around the holidays, like the Candy Cane Frappuccino.

11. Honey Blend
The Honey blend beverages are very popular among vegans (even though the syrup itself is not technically vegan, a lot of vegans make an exception for honey.)

10. Cinnamon Dolce Syrup
This started out as a seasonal syrup but due to its popularity, it was made available all year.

9. Sugar Free Vanilla Syrup
When you order a skinny Vanilla Latte, it’s made with this Sugar Free Vanilla Syrup and nonfat milk.

8. Hazelnut Syrup
Hazelnut Syrup mixed with Vanilla Syrup makes French Vanilla Syrup, which is more popular than Hazelnut alone.

7. Caramel Syrup
Caramel Syrup, unlike Dark Caramel Sauce, doesn’t contain any milk.

6. White Chocolate Mocha Sauce
It’s popular in both hot and iced lattes. This contains dairy.

5. Caramel Sauce
Used to make Caramel Macchiatos and Caramel Frappuccinos, which are both incredibly popular.

4. Mocha Sauce
Mocha Sauce is prepped daily, at each Starbucks location, using a mocha powder. This is the only sauce that doesn’t contain dairy.

3. Classic Syrup
A basic simple syrup that’s popular to add into iced coffees.

2. Cane Sugar
This is most often used in iced teas, it’s a sweetener and doesn’t have any additional flavoring.

1. Vanilla Syrup
The most popular syrup by far! With Vanilla Lattes being super popular, this syrup goes fast.

Questions You May Have

How do I customize a drink with syrup?

On the Starbucks app, syrups can be added under “Flavors” and at the store, you can order a drink with however many pumps of the syrup you like.

What are drizzles?

To top a drink with a thin layer of sauce of syrup, you can ask for a drizzle. At Starbucks, there’s Caramel Drizzle, Mocha Drizzle, and Strawberry Drizzle.

Can I add more than one syrup into a drink?

Yes! You can mix, match, and add as much syrup into a drink but be aware there may be an extra cost.

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1 thought on “Most Popular Starbucks Syrups”

  1. You know what I miss the most?
    JUNIPER SYRUP. Every winter I get sad they didn’t bring it back. I know not everyone loved it, but it was my favorite and I wish it made sense to have the option. Or at least sell the syrup online!
    No hate, love starbies 💚

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