Starbucks drinks without caffeine, and the ones that only look it

What Starbucks drinks have no caffeine?

These drinks have a product page on starbucks.com that lists their caffeine at zero, read on November 12, 2026, and each prints the same zero at every size it comes in. Notice what is missing: no coffee, no Refresher, and no tea from the tea plant.

Of the 15 Starbucks US drinks in this article that the chain lists at 0 mg of caffeine, Mint Majesty is the only one whose description uses the word: “a caffeine-free herbal tea”. The others print the zero and say nothing more about caffeine. The Vanilla Bean Crème Frappuccino’s description suggests adding “a hot espresso shot poured right over the top”. 461452

So the zero is a number on a nutrition panel, not a promise on the cup. The Crème Frappuccinos are the cleanest case: milk, ice, syrup, no coffee. They stop being caffeine-free the moment someone takes up the Vanilla Bean’s own description and pours a shot over the top, which at Starbucks is 75 mg. Passion Tango is hibiscus, lemongrass and apple, by its description, so it reads zero where the green and black teas do not. More on what counts as an herbal tea is in the herbal tea article.

Two widely read caffeine-free Starbucks lists still crown the Caramel Apple Spice. I too stay loyal to things that left

Does the Pink Drink have caffeine?

Yes. Starbucks lists a Grande Pink Drink at 50 mg of caffeine, and by its ingredient list the Pink Drink is the Strawberry Açaí Refresher base shaken with coconutmilk, so it carries the Refresher’s numbers exactly. Every Refresher with a nutrition page on the US menu does.

Starbucks US lists each of the 14 drinks in its Refreshers menu on November 12, 2026, the Pink Drink and the Dragon Drink among them, at 25 mg of caffeine in a Tall (12 fl oz), 50 mg in a Grande (16 fl oz), 75 mg in a Venti (24 fl oz) and 100 mg in a Trenta (30 fl oz). That is the default recipe, which Starbucks calls light caffeine. It marks each caffeine figure as an approximate value. 424425426427428429430431432433434435436437472

That covers the Pink Drink, the Dragon Drink, Mango Dream, the Cannon Ball drinks, the holiday Snowy Apple and every lemonade version. The coconutmilk, the lemonade and the fruit pieces change the color. The caffeine comes in its own ingredient, the green coffee extract, and does not care what it is poured into.

The Pink Drink looks like a milkshake and clocks in like a coworker

Do Starbucks Refreshers have caffeine, and can you get one without it?

Yes, and yes. Since spring 2026 a Refresher comes three ways, and the menu now treats caffeine as a setting rather than a recipe.

In its April 6, 2026 announcement of Energy Refreshers, year-round in US stores from April 7, Starbucks said “All Refreshers can now also be made caffeine-free.” Its product pages offer three “Caffeine Options”: Caffeine-Free, Light Caffeine (the default) and Extra Caffeine (Energy Refresher), and the descriptions say “Available with no caffeine, light caffeine (50mg*)” with the asterisk explained as “Assumes grande size.” The pages print a caffeine figure for the light and Energy versions only; none is printed for the caffeine-free one, and the Pink Drink’s nutrition panel keeps showing the standard 50 mg even after Caffeine-Free is chosen, because, the page says, “Nutrition information is calculated based on our standard recipes.” 474424475

Starbucks US lists each of the 14 drinks in its Energy Refreshers menu on November 12, 2026, the Pink Energy Drink among them, at 100 mg of caffeine in a Tall (12 fl oz), 125 mg in a Grande (16 fl oz), 150 mg in a Venti (24 fl oz) and 175 mg in a Trenta (30 fl oz). Each page’s description says “boosted with 125mg of caffeine in a grande”. Each figure is marked approximate. 438439440441442443444445446447448449450451472

By our arithmetic from Starbucks US figures, an Energy Refresher carries 75 mg more caffeine than the regular Refresher at every size, so a Tall Energy Refresher (100 mg) has as much as a Trenta regular one (100 mg), and a Grande Energy Refresher has 2.5 times a Grande regular one. 438424

Starbucks sells the Energy version as “more caffeine than a single espresso shot”, and by its own figures that holds: a Grande Energy Refresher is 125 mg and a solo espresso 75 mg. A Trenta Energy Refresher at 175 mg is more than two of those shots, by our sum. For the cans it is competing with, see which energy drink has the most caffeine.

The Energy Refresher is for people who looked at a Trenta and thought, too subtle

Where does the caffeine come from? Not from the fruit, and not from tea.

Starbucks introduced Refreshers in 2012 with “a boost of natural energy from a new source, green coffee extract”, unroasted and “still retaining naturally occurring caffeine”, made “from 100% arabica beans”. On the US product pages in November 2026 the ingredient is listed as “GREEN COFFEE EXTRACT BLEND”, whose own ingredients include “COFFEE EXTRACT (FOR FLAVOR)” and a vitamin blend. The Strawberry Açaí Refresher and its Energy version, and the Pink Drink and the Pink Energy Drink, list word-for-word the same ingredients; the product pages do not say how the Energy version gets its extra caffeine. Starbucks’ Energy Refreshers page says you can “customize the number of pumps of Green Coffee Extract in your Refresher.” 476424438426440473

So a Refresher is a coffee drink that does not taste like one. Starbucks’ own explanation: the extract is unroasted, for a mild flavor, and still carries its natural caffeine. The frozen Blended Energy Refreshers are the one version without a per-size page.

Starbucks says its Energy Refreshers come “with up to 125 mg of caffeine per grande” and bring “more caffeine than a single espresso shot”. It says Blended Energy Refreshers, the frozen version, “contain up to 105mg of caffeine in a grande”; the US menu read on November 12, 2026 had no product page for them. 473475472

Does Starbucks hot chocolate have caffeine? Which teas do?

Hot chocolate does, a little: Starbucks lists 15 mg in a Short and 35 mg in a Venti, from the cocoa in the mocha sauce. The Peppermint White Hot Chocolate is 2 mg in a Grande, which is as close to zero as a number gets without being one. Why cocoa carries caffeine at all is in the chocolate article.

Starbucks US lists Mint Majesty, “a caffeine-free herbal tea”, at 0 mg of caffeine in a Grande (16 fl oz), and Chamomile Mint Blossom, described as “A green tea blend with soothing flavors of chamomile”, at 25 mg in a Grande and 16 to 25 mg in a Short or Tall. Honey Citrus Mint, which its description calls green tea, is listed at 16 to 25 mg at every size. 468461469

Chamomile Mint Blossom is green tea in a bathrobe

Chamomile is caffeine-free. Chamomile Mint Blossom is not chamomile, it is green tea wearing it. The same trap catches Emperor’s Clouds & Mist, a green tea that Starbucks lists at 16 mg to 25 mg in a Grande. If you want a hot tea at Starbucks with nothing in it, Mint Majesty is the only one on the menu that says so. The rest of the tea shelf is in the green tea article.

Is decaf at Starbucks caffeine-free?

No. Starbucks lists a Grande Decaf Pike Place Roast at 25 mg, the same as a Grande hot chocolate. That is a fraction of the regular Pike Place at 315 mg to 390 mg, and still more than a Strawberry Lemonade will ever give you. The Half-Caff Pike Place sits in between at 170 mg.

Decaf espresso drinks have no figure of their own: on the US menu, decaf is an option on a latte, not a product with a number. The only measurement we hold is a lab’s, from one Starbucks outlet.

In a 2006 lab study, 10 decaf coffees collected from different coffee establishments held 0 to 13.9 mg of caffeine per 16 oz serving. From a single Starbucks outlet, six decaf espresso shots held 3.0 to 15.8 mg per shot and six decaf brewed coffees 12.0 to 13.4 mg per 16 oz serving. These are the ranges in the paper's abstract, which is the only part that was read; the abstract says the samples came from the same outlet and does not say when they were collected. 63

Small, not nothing. Does decaf coffee have caffeine has the rest.

Where did the Caramel Apple Spice and Peach Tranquility go?

Caramel Apple Spice is ranked first on two widely read caffeine-free Starbucks lists, from Tasting Table and Chowhound. Neither it nor Peach Tranquility is on the menu Starbucks publishes online.

The national menu Starbucks publishes online, read on November 12, 2026, has no Caramel Apple Spice, no Peach Tranquility tea, no steamed apple juice, no Cinnamon Dolce Crème and no Jade Citrus Mint tea, and its only White Hot Chocolate is the Peppermint White Hot Chocolate. These are favorites on older caffeine-free lists: Tasting Table’s ranking (updated April 3, 2024) puts Caramel Apple Spice first and includes Steamed Apple Juice, Cinnamon Dolce Crème, Peach Tranquility and White Hot Chocolate; Chowhound’s list (December 4, 2024) also puts Caramel Apple Spice first and includes Jade Citrus Mint. A store’s own menu may differ, and their caffeine was not read. 472477478

We are not calling them discontinued, because the web menu is not every store. We just cannot give them a number, and a caffeine-free list built on drinks you cannot find, with no figure for any of them, is out of date twice over.

What should I order at Starbucks if I want to sleep tonight?

Anything in the F tier is a zero by Starbucks’ own figure. The trouble is the middle. A Grande Pink Drink at 50 mg is a modest dose, but caffeine leaves slowly: the half-life in healthy adults averages 4 hours and runs to 8 hours. An afternoon Pink Drink is still partly there at bedtime, and an Energy one far more so.

A single 100 mg dose of caffeine, about 1.4 mg/kg body weight for a 70 kg adult, may increase the time it takes to fall asleep and reduce sleep duration in some adults, particularly when taken close to bedtime. 2223

A Tall Energy Refresher alone reaches that dose. Over a whole day, the arithmetic is gentler than the name suggests:

By our arithmetic, 400 mg, the daily amount EFSA says raises no safety concern for healthy adults who are not pregnant, is 4 Trenta Pink Drinks at 100 mg each, or 2.3 Trenta Pink Energy Drinks at 175 mg each, counting no other caffeine that day. 42443822

Four Trentas is a lot of strawberry. The more useful number is what is left at the hour you go to bed, and that depends on the clock, not the color. See the drinks page for the full list of drinks and the method page for how the curve is drawn.