The two new coffee options McDonald's is testing include the straightforward Cold Brew - a black coffee poured over ice, for which guests can naturally request the addition of sugar and cream. The other is the Marble Cold Brew, which adds cream, chocolate, and caramel syrup before it's served over ice.

Ingredients in the Iced Coffee (Large)

• Brewed Coffee. Brewed Coffee 1 of 4.
• Ice. Ice 2 of 4.
• Liquid Sugar. Liquid Sugar 3 of 4.
• Light Cream. Light Cream 4 of 4.

The two new coffee alternatives that the brand is testing include the simple Cold Brew, which is simply black coffee poured over ice. Customers can choose to add sugar and cream to their drink. Another offering is the Marble Cold Brew, which is served over ice after being mixed with cream, chocolate, and caramel syrup.

Our McCafe Ice-Coffee is a perfect blend of cold coffee, milk, and sugar, served chilled and garnished with whipped cream. It's the perfect drink to beat the heat and one of the most loved types of cold coffee.

“Usually, most people choose mild coffees for cold brew,” Yiannis explains. “Hariti [has notes of] bergamot, and chocolate, [with a] sweet acidity and silky body, [which we think works] perfectly over ice.”

The Bottom Line: If sweet cold brew coffee is your thing, McDonald's Marbled Cold Brew is definitely worth the pickup and puts up a good fight against both Starbucks and Dunkin'.

Mocha Coffee Frappe Base Ingredients: Cream, Water, Skim Milk, Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Coffee Extract, Milk, Natural & Artificial Flavors, Cocoa (processed With Alkali), Mono & Diglycerides, Guar Gum, Potassium Citrate, Disodium Phosphate, Carrageenan, Locust Bean Gum, Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1.

Made with 100% Arabica beans, McCafé® Premium Roast Coffee is expertly roasted and freshly brewed every 30 minutes. Enjoy your hot coffee black or with your choice of sugar, sweetener, and dairy or creamer.

arabica McDonald's coffee is brewed from 100% arabica, medium roasted, beans. McDonald's coffee quality is as high as it is because of that one fact. Arabica coffee is the most popular type of coffee because it is so much milder than Robusta coffee, lacking that acidic aftertaste you will find with Robusta beans.

Now, granted, it's pumped full of some sort of sweet creamy vanilla-esque syrup with ribbons of even more cream to give it its marbled color (which is only really present before you mix the drink together), but the soft and mellow flavor keeps this drinking sweet leaning but without the bitter aftertaste that overstays ...

Made with 100% Arabica beans, McCafé® Premium Roast Coffee is expertly roasted and freshly brewed every 30 minutes. Enjoy your hot coffee black or with your choice of sugar, sweetener, and dairy or creamer.

They are 100% Rainforest Alliance Coffee Beans from Honduras, Columbia, Peru and Brazil.

The cold water slows down the extraction of the tasty parts of coffee. AND it actually changes what is extracted and what is left in the ground coffee. Compared to hot brewed coffee, a cup of cold brew can be 60% less acidic and bitter. That happens because the acids that turn to bitter don't get extracted.