Milk tea is rich in taste, very sweet, and has the refreshing taste of tea. "Milk" and "tea" are both healthy foods in nutritional promotions, so it is easy for everyone to believe that milk tea is a dietary supplement. Healthy drink in, actually not so. In fact, most of the pearl milk tea that people drink on the street contains neither "milk" nor "tea", but contains a large amount of low-quality creamer that is harmful to the human body. Experts warn that drinking too much milk tea is not beneficial, and excessive drinking can easily lead to cardiovascular and other diseases.

Most milk teas are milk-free and contain additives

With the plasticizer controversy, the question of whether drinking milk tea is healthy has once again attracted everyone's attention. What is the milk tea in the beverage shops on the streets made of? How are those colorful seasonings blended?

It is understood that a cup of authentic pearl milk tea should be composed of three parts: sugar, milk, and tea. And the milk used in milk tea shops on the market is almost not fresh milk or milk powder, but creamer. Creamer is much cheaper than fresh milk and milk powder, has a better taste and rich milk flavor. Creamers are also divided into high and low grades, and their quality also varies. Good creamers have a stronger milky taste, while bad ones have almost no milky taste. Next is sugar. Generally, white sugar is used. Better stores will use fructose syrup. Some small stores use protein sugar, which is saccharin. If you throw a little in, the sweetness will be more than ten times that of white sugar. Tea is divided into tea bags and tea powder. Cheap tea bags cost less than a dime a bag and have no tea flavor.

The so-called "pearls" are mainly tapioca starch. In order to make the "pearls" more elastic and chewy, most pearl milk teas also add wheat protein and synthetic polymer materials, which are plastics. Colorful is made from fruit powder and has more than 20 flavors. Most of the ingredients are edible flavors and pigments.

Inferior quality creamer can cause cardiovascular and other diseases

Experts point out that compared with milk, so-called milk tea lacks calcium and a large amount of vitamins, and its protein content is very low. It has basically no useful nutrients in milk. However, milk tea contains a lot of fat and calories, and drinking too much is not good for your health. In addition, formally produced food additives such as creamer and saccharin are not terrible. However, in order to reduce costs, many milk tea shops currently use low-quality creamer and saccharin, which are illegal additives and have great harm to human health.

Creamer is also known as non-dairy creamer, powdered oil, fat powder, etc. Its main ingredients include edible vegetable oil, maltodextrin, and sodium caseinate. It is a legal additive allowed by the country, but in Dosage needs to be strictly controlled.

According to experts, real creamer is extracted from cream and the cost is very high. However, the creamer used in milk tea shops and cake shops in daily life can be said to not have a drop of milk or cream in the production process. It is something similar to milk made by adding water and additives to vegetable oil. Among them, vegetable oils, more specifically hydrogenated vegetable oils, contain "trans fatty acids". "Trans fatty acids" can cause abnormal blood lipid metabolism and significantly increase the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In addition, there are harmful substances such as arsenic, lead, and copper in creamer. Long-term intake can increase the risk of coronary heart disease, tumors, asthma, etc. If consumed by children, it will affect physical development, especially interfere with the nervous system and affect memory and thinking ability.

Experts have conducted tests and found that the average trans fatty acid content of creamer samples is not less than 3.5%. Then making a cup of 250 ml milk tea requires about 30 grams of creamer. According to this standard, a cup of milk tea contains about 1 gram of trans fatty acids. According to international standards, the maximum daily intake of trans fatty acids for humans is 2 grams. If you drink two cups of milk tea, it may exceed the limit and cause harm to human health. Trans fatty acids are not easily digested by the human body and easily accumulate in the abdomen, leading to obesity. Therefore, drinking more milk tea can also cause obesity