40 cents cost, sell at least 6 dollars, net profit of 5 dollars per cup! There is no milk in the milk tea!

Pearl milk tea main ingredients are 13, including phytolacca, oral dextrose, maltodextrin, fresh milk extract, meringue, gum arabic, ethyl maltol, CMC, and charcoal roasted coffee flavor this 9 kinds of food additives accounted for 87% of the total ingredients, the rest of the 13% of the sugar, whole milk powder, coffee powder and black tea powder. Probably many of the ingredients in it netizens have never heard of, and even if they have heard of it, they don't know exactly what it is and whether it can be eaten into the stomach. I have consulted some experts, the answer is actually the above ingredients added to pearl milk tea, theoretically no harm to the human body, occasionally eat does not affect health. Phytolacca is cream, is hydrogenated vegetable oil, it is widely used in food processing, the main purpose is to reduce the amount of milk, increase the milk flavor of food. But if you eat too much of it, it's not good for your health. Long-term consumption of it is more likely to induce vascular sclerosis and increase the risk of heart disease and cerebral vascular accidents.

The biggest danger of pearl milk tea

In fact, the biggest bad thing about pearl milk tea is not the milk tea but the pearl powder round inside. Most people only know that it is based on tapioca starch as the main ingredient, but in fact, the elasticity of tapioca starch simply can not do so well. The normal method is to add wheat protein in it, but some unscrupulous manufacturers in order to save costs, it is added with synthetic polymer materials to get a better elasticity, which has become an undeclared secret within the industry.

See here think you do not want to drink it?

"To make pearl milk tea, it must be sweetener, otherwise you put how much sugar is not sweet." -- a friend in a line said

Sweetener is scientifically named sodium cyclohexylaminosulfonate, usually refers to the sodium or calcium salt of cyclohexylaminosulfonic acid." Sweeteners," with their pure sweetness, are often considered 30 times sweeter than sucrose, and were a highly consumed artificial sweetener in the U.S., where they were recognized as safe until 1969. This year the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Research Council received experimental evidence about sweeteners as carcinogens, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for this immediately issued regulations to strictly limit the use of, and in August 1970 issued a total ban on the order.

Pearl milk tea store, health is more worrying

Anywhere placed messy raw material production works, no safe source of ice and narrow dim supermarket production workshop, see these you still dare to drink? The health and safety can still be guaranteed?

Recently, Hangzhou Quality Supervision and Monitoring Institute of a survey results show that in the randomly selected 10 pearl milk tea samples, E. coli and the total number of bacterial colonies of two indicators all exceeded the average exceeded 70 times more than the most exceeded the standard by more than 140 times.

Pearl milk tea is the earliest of Taiwan's beautiful food, rich flavor, tender taste y loved by men, women and children. Enjoy the pleasure of food is a pleasing thing, but cream + flavor + sweet essence + plastic composition of pearl milk tea is a serious threat to our body. Milk tea stores lining the streets, advertisements beckon, the real content is discouraging. Food safety and hygiene issues can not be ignored, their own health can not be ignored. Pearl milk tea or drink less for good!

Inferior milk tea costs a few cents per cup

Milk flavor, coupled with sweet and Q pearls - this fragrant pearl milk tea, became the favorite of many young people today. However, these exquisitely decorated, clean and tidy-looking milk tea store, the quality of the products sold is poor to an alarming degree. Recently, Hangzhou Quality Supervision and Monitoring Institute of a survey results show that in a random sample of 10 pearl milk tea samples, E. coli and the total number of colonies of two indicators all exceeded the standard, the average exceeded the standard by more than 70 times, the most exceeded the standard by more than 140 times.

Making milk tea employees receive money with one hand and make with the other

In the past two years, the attentive public will find that in the streets of Hangzhou, fashionable decoration of pearl milk tea stores have sprung up like a rainbow. This drink, which originated in Taiwan, is loved by young people and children for its rich taste and variety of flavors. In areas of Hangzhou where young people and students are more concentrated, you can always see the brightly colored signboards of pearl milk tea stores, only in the Yintai neighborhood of Jesus Hall Lane, within a short distance of four to five hundred meters, there are five or six similar small stores. According to estimates, there are more than a thousand pearl milk tea stores in Hangzhou. But the health of these small stores in the end how? The reporter visited nearly 10 milk tea stores yesterday, and what he saw was disappointing.

In a milk tea store near Yan'an Road, the reporter saw, high counter placed under a lot of transparent glass bottles, filled with various colors of powder. The bottles do not have any manufacturer and factory address, production date. Reporter ordered a cup of pearl milk tea, the clerk will be nimble hands and feet in the glass bottle of powder poured a little in the cup, blended with syrup, milk tea, and from a hot water bottle poured a little boiling water, plus a small spoon of pearls, with a machine sealing the lid, in a short while, the production of successful milk tea handed over. The reporter tasted, pearl milk tea is not only not a little milk flavor, but also with a little bitter.

On Wen San Road, there are several pearl milk tea stores open one after another. The reporter found that some of the store staff neither wear professional uniforms, nor wear hygiene gloves, but while collecting money, while rushing to help guests make drinks. A buy a cup of pearl milk tea young lady told reporters, they usually like to drink this kind of drinks, and see these milk tea store decoration are very fashionable and neat, think health should be reassuring, as for the production date of raw materials and manufacturers, they never cared.

Shoddy milk tea costs 70 cents per cup

Through inquiries, the reporter found that a cup of pearl milk tea of better quality should be made of jasmine green tea or coffee, black tea with wheat, plus a smooth powder round and creamer rich in vegetable protein. So, is the quality of the raw materials used to make milk tea qualified? The reporter asked the owner of several milk tea store, the answer is basically similar: these small stores are basically to take the nature of the franchise, the raw materials by the company unified centralized distribution. After inquiring a few times, the reporter got a pearl milk tea raw materials supplier's phone.

Subsequently, the reporter pretended to want to join a milk tea store, dialed the supplier's phone. Answer the phone is a man who claimed to be surnamed Liu, he told reporters to join the milk tea store profits are very high, using their products, a packet of 18 yuan of creamer can be rushed 80 cups, a packet of 3 yuan of pearl powder can be rushed 30 cups, a packet of 12 yuan of milk tea powder can be rushed 60 cups, plus each 0.1 yuan of cups, the cost of a cup of milk tea is about 0.7 yuan, and selling price of about 3 yuan.

"The raw materials for authentic milk tea are quite high, and there's not much profit to be made at all. Cheap pearl milk tea is different, the market is good, if you can sell 500-1000 cups a day, you calculate how much you can earn." The man surnamed Liu told reporters this.

Milk tea additives may induce disease

A food hygiene experts told reporters, so that the milk tea becomes "thick, smooth", is the cream of the phytolacca. The long-term intake of phytolipids, can increase the risk of coronary heart disease, but also induced tumors, asthma and other diseases. Let the milk tea become "sweet" is sweeteners, such as not in accordance with national regulations, it may be harmful to the liver, nervous system. In addition, some milk tea stores have poor hygiene conditions, raw materials and equipment are susceptible to bacterial contamination, so he suggested that the public should be careful to buy.

It is understood that there are no quality standards for ready-to-sell beverage foods like pearl milk tea in China, but relevant local standards are already under development.

Specialty stores: milk tea is made of additives to edit this section Yesterday, the reporter visited the Hanzheng Street, Unity Village and Chijiajie Street, Wuhan, such as selling milk tea raw materials wholesale location. In Chijiajie Street, a store specializing in the sale of additives, sweeteners, creamer, compound sweeteners, soy milk additives and so on everywhere, "I'm here to additives are regular, industrial and commercial every month to check." When informed that the reporter wants to open a milk tea store, the boss suddenly warmed up, "you need milk tea, I here can be blended out." In a list provided by the boss, the reporter saw that the production of a cup of ordinary milk tea roughly need phytolacca, oral dextrose, maltodextrin, fresh milk extract, meringue, gum arabic, ethyl maltol, leucoanthocyanidin, acesulfame, sodium benzoate and other food additives.

"There are a lot of milk tea store owners are from me here into the goods, they go back and blended into milk tea ingredients." The boss took out a box of 2 pounds of coconut milk extract quoted at 19 yuan, compound sweetener (containing proteins sugar) 26 yuan, "If you do milk tea with coconut milk, use these two on the line." According to the boss, both raw materials can be flushed 100 pounds of milk tea, can be made into hundreds of cups, plus cups and water, the cost is also in the 60 cents or so, "I'm here to compound sweetener is safer than the sweetener, the taste is also more sweet, than others to sell raw materials are good, and the price is not more expensive than others."

When the reporter asked, if they casually blended, the proportion of the wrong will not be flooded with questions, the boss laughed, "Milk tea is additives to do, a cup of milk tea contains dozens of additives, if the subject should have been out. If you are afraid, use less on the line, the quality of my products here is very good, there will be no problem."

In Chijiajie Street, another store specializing in milk tea ingredients, the reporter saw that all kinds of milk tea ingredients have been deployed, such as fruit concentrate, all kinds of milk tea powder, coconut, dried fruit, cream, pearls and so on. The owner of the store, all kinds of products due to different brands, the price is different, such as concentrated fruit pulp, "Black Forest" 18 yuan a bottle, than the "thick flavor king" (13 yuan a bottle) 5 yuan, so a bottle of concentrated fruit pulp can be adjusted out of about 50 cups of fruit juice drinks.