Carbs in Starbucks sous vide egg bites

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#1

Hi all, I’m really surprised that the Starbucks sous vide egg bites have anywhere between 9 to 13 grams of carbs. For example, my favorite, “red pepper and egg-white” egg bite has 13 grams of carbs. Where is this coming from? Sorry for this rant, but just feeling let down after discovering it, and hoping to get suggestions for other widely-available, cheap, to-go keto-friendly options.

#2

Surprised me too. Their ingredient lists has potato starch, and bunch of other stuff in it, probably to make them keep and reheat well. There’s a bunch of recipes online for making you’re own. Been thinking about trying one or two.

#3

Ingredients: egg whites, cottage cheese (cultured skim milk, skim milk, milk, cream, contains 2 % or less of: whey, lactose, salt, maltodextrin, guar gum, citric acid, carrageenan, mono- and diglycerides, locust bean gum, xanthan gum, carob bean gum, potassium sorbate, carbon dioxide [to maintain freshness], natural flavor, vitamin a palmitate, enzymes) , monterey jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, potato starch, powdered cellulose, natamycin [a natural mold inhibitor]) , red bell pepper, rice starch, unsalted butter (pasteurized cream, natural flavors) , spinach, canola oil, feta cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes, potato starch) , green onion, salt, hot sauce (distilled vinegar, red pepper, salt), canola oil, spice. contains: egg, milk.

So probably mostly the rice starch and the cottage cheese.

(karen) #4

Yick. I don’t know why I thought they were made from scratch, right there, which would eliminate 90% of the nasty ingredients. I find so many restaurants are doing nothing more than cooking from boxes and bags of what is essentially Bisquik and frozen (double fried, super battered) tv dinner fare I could have done at home for 1/10 the price if I wanted to eat that shit at all. It’s hard to even get a lettuce wrap any more because they just tear open plastic bags of pre-cut lettuce. A bag of this Kraft crap, a bag of that General Mills crap, and voila, a $35 meal. :angry:

(Andrew) #5

Yeah, makes my BG soar… too bad; it’s not a bad snack.

(Jennifer ) #6

Barista here, there’s virtually nothing for us to eat at Starbucks. I have to combine two different protein boxes and an avocado cup to get anywhere near a “portion” of edible food when I’m working. I’ll sometimes make two Sausage Egg & Cheese sandwiches without the English muffin…but I don’t trust that stuff either. So frustrating. But frankly it’s made fasting while working a lot easier.

Decent options on the go include Wawa’s hoagie bowls (and their hard boiled eggs and cheese and pepperoni), Chipotle if you keep it simple, fast food things without buns but that’s not exactly quality food stuffs, and five guys will make you a bangin bunless burger (and all the toppings are free) with however many patties you want. Those are my favorites.

(Troy) #7

Yeah
Different locations have the moon cheese crisp or whatever they are called
And the Justin Almond Butter Packs
String cheese too

However —
Drum roll…

It’s like hitting the Keto lottery or getting the Golden ticket on those Starbucks that stock the Kerrygold 10g butter packs :heart_eyes::heart_eyes:

(Jennifer Kleiman) #8

It’s not food per se but my favorite meal-replacement-like thing at *$ now is a keto frappucino: Order a tall cold brew coffee in a frappuccino cup. Undiluted cold brew to the bottom line, heavy cream to the middle, 1-2 packets sweetener (I carry my own liquid monkfruit but 1-2 pumps of sugar-free vanilla or cinnamon dolce or whatnot), 2 scoops of protein powder, tall scoop ice, double-blended.

Not sure of the macros but 12g protein from the protein powder plus… I’m not sure how much heavy cream that is, do you know?

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #9

All of that in a bloody egg?

#10

Why not? Not even whole eggs. Just the whites.

You can’t always trust “eggs”. IHOP throws pancake batter into their omelets to make them fluffier. At McDonald’s, go with the egg rounds or scrambled eggs, because the folded eggs contain “Eggs, Nonfat Milk, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Citric Acid” for 2 net carbs.

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #11

What are folded eggs?
I’m Australian, we don’t get all that fancy shit.
It’s an egg mate and that’s all it is :rofl:

#12

It’s a pourable egg batter that they fold up:

Their egg rounds are individual eggs cracked into a ring mold:

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #13

Ewww. That looks so gross and processed.
Im never eating mcdonalds eggs again, LOL!

(Dan) #14

Recenlty purchased an Anova Sous Vide. Just made the SB like egg bites using the receipe from the Anova web site. Just eggs, bacon, gruyere cheese, & cream cheese. Less than 1 gram carb each!

#15

Thanks, Jennifer. Appreciate to hear this comment from staff, and the tips!

#16

this is gross! Thanks for the education

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #17

The starch is always pretty low on the ingredients. It’s one from the egg, a bunch from the cottage cheese, some from the veg in the egg white… there are few low fat foods that don’t have added carbs. I eat the bacon ones when I want, but I’m on 40 a day and 7-10 a meal, so I’m not sweating 9g. Your mileage will vary.

My homebrew version, with goat cheese is 3 grams of carbs. If I used cottage cheese, it’d go up.

(Jennifer ) #18

For a tall, to go from the bottom line to the second line it’s probably around a quarter cup. I’m only guessing though.

(Jennifer Kleiman) #19

Thanks! That’d make it around 260 cals, 13g protein, 3g carbs, 22g fat. Less carbs (9g) & protein (19g) than the bacon & gruyere sous vide egg bites, same fat grams.

(Jennifer ) #20

If you wanted it to taste more coffee-like, they can use the frap roast coffee as well. Its just concentrated French roasted coffee, no sugar at all. But the French roast is going to be a little more pungent than the cold brew. However, I also really like the taste of cold brew over the taste of French roast (French roast is aggressive AF). So it’s whatever you like really.

The sugar comes from the flavors of course, but also from the “Frappucino base”, which is a concentrated syrup that comes in either coffee flavored or creme base flavored. This is part of what holds the frap together (the sugar helps it stick together instead of separating).

Some unsolicited advice - You might consider letting them do the normal amount of pumps of the SF syrup for the cup size, I’ve experimented a lot, and it helps the keto fraps stick together better instead of separating. That means 3 for a grande, 4 for a venti.