Is Starbucks Vegan? Vegan Options at Starbucks

Starbucks is vegan-friendly, mostly for drinks: it tags the Spicy Falafel Pocket, Plain Bagel and Everything Bagel vegan, and many coffees, teas and Refreshers are vegan as made or after swapping to oatmilk, soymilk, almondmilk or coconutmilk. Watch for dairy in the whipped cream, caramel drizzle, Dark Caramel Sauce, standard and protein cold foams and the white chocolate, pumpkin spice and pistachio sauces, and for honey in the chai and the Honey Blend Syrup.

Vegan as served, per Starbucks's own sources: Spicy Falafel Pocket, Rolled & Steel-Cut Oatmeal, Plain Bagel, Everything Bagel, Avocado Spread, Medium Roast - Pike Place® Roast, Cold Brew, Pink Drink, and 18 more in the table above. 12 more items are vegan with a change.

Pair a Spicy Falafel Pocket, or a Plain or Everything Bagel with Avocado Spread (no butter or cream cheese), with a drink made with oatmilk, soymilk, almondmilk or coconutmilk, such as an Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso, a Pink Drink or a non-dairy latte. Say "no whipped cream" and "no caramel drizzle", choose Mocha Sauce or syrups other than Honey Blend over the white chocolate, dark caramel, pumpkin spice and pistachio sauces, and skip anything made with chai.

Yes. Starbucks tags it vegan on its US menu. The listed ingredients are a lavash wrap, hummus, roasted red bell peppers, chimichurri sauce, pickled onions, a red salsa blend and a spinach falafel, with sesame and wheat as the only listed allergens.

The Plain Bagel and Everything Bagel are both tagged vegan on Starbucks' US menu. Order them without butter or cream cheese. The Avocado Spread (avocado, sea salt, onion, garlic, jalapeño, lime juice) is a vegan topping.

No. The plant-based Impossible sausage patty lists no animal ingredients, but the sandwich comes with a fried egg patty and Cheddar. The sesame ciabatta bun itself contains eggs and butter, so removing the egg and cheese still leaves it non-vegan.

Mocha Sauce (water, sugar, cocoa processed with alkali, natural flavor) and the syrups whose ingredients we checked, including Vanilla, Classic, Caramel, Brown Sugar, Hazelnut, Horchata, Cinnamon Dolce and Pecan, list no animal ingredients. Honey Blend Syrup is made with honey, the Caramel Sauce used for caramel drizzle contains butter, heavy cream and nonfat dry milk, and the Dark Caramel, White Chocolate Mocha, Pumpkin Spice and Pistachio sauces all contain milk.

It depends which caramel. Caramel Syrup (sugar, water, natural flavor, citric acid, potassium sorbate) has no animal ingredients, which is why the Caramel Aerocano is vegan as made. The caramel drizzle is Caramel Sauce, which contains butter, heavy cream and nonfat dry milk.

No. The chai tea concentrate contains honey, so the Chai Latte is not vegan even with a non-dairy milk. The same concentrate goes into other chai drinks such as the Iced Chaider and Pumpkin Spice Chai.

No. The Pumpkin Spice Sauce contains condensed skim milk, so swapping the milk and skipping the whipped cream still leaves dairy in the drink.

Not at company-operated stores in the US and Canada. Starbucks dropped the extra charge for soymilk, oatmilk, almondmilk and coconutmilk on November 7, 2024. The announcement covered company-operated stores only, so it does not promise the same at licensed locations.

Starbucks tags its Rolled & Steel-Cut Oatmeal vegetarian, not vegan, but the listed ingredients are water, whole grain rolled and steel-cut oats, oat flour, salt, calcium carbonate and guar gum, with no animal products. Keep it made with water or a non-dairy milk and top it with agave, brown sugar or blueberries rather than honey.

Not in the US bakery case. Every croissant, loaf, muffin, scone, cookie, brownie, cake pop and mini pie with a published ingredient list contains eggs, milk or butter, and the Marshmallow Dream Bar also contains gelatin, so the Plain and Everything Bagels are the only bakery items tagged vegan.

Yes, with changes. The Coffee Frappuccino Syrup and Crème Frappuccino Syrup list no animal ingredients, so order one with a non-dairy milk and no whipped cream or caramel drizzle. Avoid drinks with Frappuccino Chips, such as the Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino, because the chips contain milk.

Only the ones named Nondairy. The standard cold foams are built on vanilla sweet cream (cream and milk), while the Nondairy sweet cream is made from water, sugar, canola oil, soymilk, soy protein isolate and oatmilk with no animal ingredients; the Nondairy Vanilla, Chocolate and Salted Caramel versions all list no animal ingredients.

No. The protein lattes use Protein-boosted Milk, which is dairy milk with a protein powder made from whey protein isolate (milk).

Yes, as made. It is the Strawberry Açaí Refresher base shaken with coconutmilk and freeze-dried strawberries, and none of the listed ingredients are animal-derived.

No. The Vanilla Protein Cold Foam is vanilla sweet cream (cream and milk) blended with a protein powder made from whey protein isolate (milk). For a vegan cold foam, choose one of the Nondairy cold foams instead.