There is so much confusion about nutritional information for Starbuck's Torani Pumpkin Pie Sauce. I've unfortunately given wrong information before myself, because I believed something without checking it myself. The confusion comes from the fact that a "pump" at Starbucks does not correspond to the serving information on the Torani bottle. But, the math can be done! First, find the nutritional information for a plain Grande Latte and a Grande PSL without whipped cream (both can be found on Starbucks website). By subtracting the plain latte information from the PSL information, then dividing by 4 (because a grande PSL has 4 pumps of sauce), you can determine that one pump of sauce contains 30 calories, 0g fat, 8g carb (7.2g sugar), 0 g fiber, 0g protein, 15g sodium. Then, I went to Torani's website and looked at the nutrition label for the pumpkin sauce (not the syrup - they're different! ). 1 "serving" is 1 ounce, and has 100 calories. Because we now know 1 pump has 30 calories, that means that 1 pump is 3/10 of a "serving" and 3/10 of an ounce. (I also used the Torani info to work out the 7.2g sugar because Starbucks didn't provide that info. 1 serving has 24g sugar, so 3/10 of that means 1 pump has 7.2g). I put this information in the LoseIt database, labelled "Pumpkin Sauce, 1 pump [correct]." My love of research, logic, and puzzles collided today! :) In the name of good science, please let me know if you think I've gone astray anywhere!
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