A litre of latte, using whole milk, will have around 660 calories and 39g of fat (women need 2,000 calories&a max of 70g fat daily)

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America , surprisingly, is only the ninth fattest nation on earth. So Howard Schultz, the U.S. boss of Starbucks, has decided to do something in a sprit of patriotic competitiveness to improve his country’s ranking.

He’s just unveiled the ‘Trenta’ size of cup. It will be his firm’s biggest receptacle, delivering the customer 916ml of coffee - just a frothy head short of a litre.

I use the word ‘coffee’ with some hesitancy because — as anyone who has had the misfortune of ordering a drink from Starbucks will attest — it’s really stale, burnt coffee beans topped with lashings of milk and a multitude of frightening flavours.

And now people can get a pint and a half of the stuff in one go. That’s more than youget in a bottle of wine — and greater than the liquid volume of the average human stomach.

Starbucks thinks this is an innovation. But, as the website Healthhabits.ca puts it rather more deftly, this is actually ‘a breakthrough for human obesity’. Maybe the U.S. can now move up the world’s fattest rankings and join the small pacific nation of Nauru, where 95 per cent of the population are classified as overweight.

It’s the latest leap from the Seattle-based company that, founded in the Seventies, now has 16,000 outlets round the world where can order your Orange Mango Banana Vivanno Nourishing Blend, Dark Chocolate Cherry Mocha or Strawberry Parsnip Caramel Flat White.

OK, I made that last one up — but now that the company’s made the Trenta bigger than the Venti (Starbucks’ previous biggest size of cup, at 570ml), really anything’s possible.

The news is horrifying British health experts, worried that the Trenta — while initially limited to America — will inevitably reach our shores. ‘It’s unnecessary,’ says nutritionist Amanda Ursell. ‘A lot of coffee; a lot of milk. The fat will be sky-high.’

She says a litre of latte, using whole milk, will have around 660 calories and 39g of fat. (Women need 2,000 calories and a maximum of 70g fat daily, while men should not exceed 2,500 calories and 90g of fat.)

Ursell says: ‘I spend my life talking to people about portions and this flies in the face of every piece of expert guidance and every step forward we try to make. It’s not what a drink of coffee should be anyway.’

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