Sometimes, when you’re feeling extra bleh, you need a little something to warm up your belly and help you kick the yuck away.
Well, Starbucks, everyone’s favorite coffee chain, has your back, because they have a drink on their Starbucks secret menu called a “medicine ball” that will have you feeling all better in a jiffy.
Last time I had a scratchy throat this drink was my LIFESAVER. It’s basically the ultimate cold buster.
I went through the drive-thru and ordered one every single day. It just makes me feel like I can take on the WORLD.
Starbucks isn’t crazy about the name “medicine ball” even though that’s what everyone calls it, so, when you order the drink, you might need to order a “Honey Citrus Mint Tea” instead.
But that’s the same thing. 🙂
There is also a similar drink called the Citrus Defender you can try too!
What’s in the Starbucks Medicine Ball?
The ingredients for a Starbucks Medicine Ball are:
- 1 Venti cup with half hot water and half steamed lemonade
- 1 bag of Teavana Jade Citrus Mint Tea
- 1 bag of Teavana Peach Tranquility Tea
- Packet of honey
- Pump of peppermint (optional)
I usually go for the optional pump of peppermint syrup, because it just feels extra tingly on my throat, and I like to squish the tea bag really good in my medicine ball tea to really get all the goodness out there.
Everyone on social media LOVES this secret menu item, and some even say to go for extra honey and an optional pump of vanilla just to make it extra fun, but I think the vanilla can make it too sweet.
Jack
Wednesday 8th of January 2020
I am forever grateful that the coffee shop I work at isn't Starbucks. I would lose my mind after about the 50th time I heard some suburban mom come through with a smug grin talking about a "secret menu item." Yes, Karen, you found the holy grail, Starbucks hides a secret menu on the internet so you can mangle an already sugary drink into something worse and more complicated. Oh yeah, with soy, because that makes it healthy.
-_- Any self respecting Barista has no problem modifying drinks for you, that's the part of the job I get the most satisfaction from, creativity. For the sake of my Starbucks brothers and sisters just be honest with everyone and order a heavily complicated drink without acting like it's an obligation for them to know whatever weird mix some random person came up with on the internet.
Raeyin
Sunday 5th of January 2020
Starbucks employees: Never represent your company as a hostile, angry person. Be professional or be quiet. While this item is currently on the "menu," it isn't posted in the store. The "secret menu" doesn't refer to some well-guarded Starbucks secret. It merely means any drink that one can order that one can't walk in and see. As long as people don't believe that baristas need to know unofficial names, it's harmless and fun. I don't see what you guys are worked up about. WikiHow has a nice, clear post on the subject.
Ian
Saturday 4th of January 2020
It's not a secret drink if it's already on the menu as something else.
Also, from someone who actually works at Starbucks, THERE IS NO SECRET MENU. Drinks customers or partners make up dont constitute as some secret menu. Stop perpetuating this lie. Own up to the crazy drinks you find online or make up.
Kevin Lintner
Tuesday 14th of January 2020
How many Americanos did you have today, Skeeter? Geez.
Dorothy Tamburich
Monday 18th of November 2019
Sounds good, just had a cold. Too late for me, but will try it anyway.
Kim
Sunday 17th of November 2019
Wow Baristas. Rude much? I see why starbucks is going downhill.