Canadian Dunkin Donuts blueberry flavour dupe?

August 16, 2023 7:55 AM

I love Dunkin Donuts blueberry flavoured coffee, but we don’t have it in Canada. Is there a similar product I can use to get the same flavour? I particularly like the fact that it is sugar free and also doesn’t contain artificial sweeteners.
posted by wheatlets to Food & Drink (5 answers total)

Do you have Aldi up there? I just killed off the last of a bag of their Wild Blueberry Crumble ground coffee an hour ago.
posted by phunniemee at 8:02 AM on August 16, 2023

Any blueberry-flavored coffee beans should be sugar free and not contain artificial sweeteners - in general flavored coffees are created by adding flavor oils to the beans before or after roasting, so sugar and sweeteners are not involved at all until after the coffee has been brewed. There are several different companies selling blueberry or blueberry muffin/cobbler/etc. coffees in Canada at places like Java Works, Nerd Teas, and other places you can find by googling "blueberry flavour coffee beans canada." The large supermarket chains around here generally carry some kind of blueberry coffee (usually New England Coffee or a store brand that's probably white-labeled New England Coffee), but I'm in the Dunkin heartland so that might be a local thing.

Exactly how any individual blueberry bean's flavor compares to the Dunks version is of course hard to measure (and likely to be perceived differently by different individual palates), but I think it's safe to assume they're all using roughly the same commercially-available blueberry flavoring.

Another option would be to add a very tiny amount of blueberry flavouring to your coffee, but this might be hard to measure/titrate. You would need to make sure you get something water-soluble, not an oil.
posted by mskyle at 8:37 AM on August 16, 2023

My husband is kind of obsessed with blueberry coffee and I don't think he's ever had one that he didn't care for (although when the Dunkin' blueberry first came out and he bought about 15 bags (thinking it was never coming back), a few went rank). There's a Cameron's Blueberry Muffin coffee that he really liked if you can get it, but blueberry flavored coffee seems to be catching on lately so you should be able to find a dupe at your local grocery store. My store brand even has their own seasonal blueberry flavor.
posted by jabes at 8:54 AM on August 16, 2023

Note: we do not have Aldi here in Canada.
posted by Kitteh at 9:01 AM on August 16, 2023

Response by poster: I probably should have specified, I only drink decaf so that might make it harder. I was also hoping to add it to more than coffee. I know there are blueberry flavourings out there, but I was hoping someone would come along and say “this specific one tastes most like Dunkin to me”. The LorAnn one looks like a good first one to try, and it’s not too expensive in case it doesn’t work.
posted by wheatlets at 9:05 AM on August 16, 2023