Starbucks US Perfect Bar Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter: calories and sugar by portion, age and sex

Nutrition information: Starbucks US Perfect Bar Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter

Nutrition figures are Starbucks US published data for one standard serving as sold. Starbucks publishes total sugar only, so added sugar is a Boone estimate. Boone converts the figures to the portion and age comparisons on this page.

Starbucks US Perfect Bar Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter is over the US per-meal added sugar limit

Starbucks US Perfect Bar Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter contains an estimated 18g of added sugar, 1.8 times the 10g per-meal limit in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The same guidelines recommend no added sugar at all for children aged 10 and under.

FDA Daily Values (2,000-calorie diet)

Where the sugar comes from: Starbucks US Perfect Bar Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter

An estimated 18g of the 18g counts as added sugar, or about 4.5 teaspoons. None of it is naturally occurring.

Added sugars come from

• honey
• cane sugar in the dark chocolate

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030: no more than 10g of added sugar per meal from age 11 and none for children aged 10 and under. FDA Daily Value: 50g a day. Starbucks publishes total sugar only. Boone counts sugars, syrups, honey, malt and juice concentrates in the ingredient list as added, and the sugars in milk, cheese, whole fruit, 100% juice and vegetables as naturally occurring.

Processing and additives: Starbucks US Perfect Bar Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter

Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains protein isolates. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies Starbucks US Perfect Bar Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter as NOVA group 4, ultra-processed, based on the additives named above. NOVA groups foods by how far they are from their whole-food form, not by how nutritious they are. A group 4 food is not automatically unhealthy, and a group 1 food is not automatically healthy. Read from the published ingredient list, October 2026.

Ingredient count: Starbucks US Perfect Bar Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter

The 1 manufactured ingredients

rice protein.

The 26 raw ingredients

alfalfa, apple, cane sugar, carrot, celery, chocolate, cocoa butter, dried whole egg powder, dulse, flax seed, flax seed oil, honey, kale, kelp, lemon, nonfat dry milk, olive oil, orange, papaya, peanut butter, pumpkin seed oil, rose hip, sea salt, sesame seed oil, spinach, tomato.

What those ingredients are, by type

Boone counts every distinct named ingredient on Starbucks’ published ingredient list, including sub-ingredients, and removes duplicates, so salt appearing in three components counts once. Raw covers whole foods and basic kitchen staples such as flour, milk, sugar, salt and oil. Manufactured covers substances that only exist as an output of industrial processing. Every figure here is a minimum.

Ingredients by component: Starbucks US Perfect Bar Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter

Ingredients taken from the Starbucks US menu at starbucks.com, retrieved October 2026, for the standard recipe. Recipes change, so always check in store before ordering if you have an allergy.

Allergen information: Starbucks US Perfect Bar Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter

Contains = declared in the Starbucks US allergen statement for this item or named in its ingredient list. Starbucks stores handle and warm food on shared equipment, so no item can be guaranteed allergen free. UK rules also require barley, oats, mustard, celery and sulphites to be declared; these are shown where the ingredient list or allergen statement names them. Retrieved October 2026.