Down to the children, up to a new generation of middle-aged people, milk tea has long been more than just a young girl standard.
However, while milk tea brings us pleasure and taste, it also threatens our health.
Especially for children who are still in the developmental stage of their bodies, it's not just a simple matter of obesity.
Have you ever had a sleepless night because of milk tea, I have been a cup of milk tea in the evening left a "deep shadow".
Although I know that milk tea contains exciting caffeine, after checking the information, I was quite surprised:
The caffeine in milk tea is even higher than the caffeine in tea!
The Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission did a survey, they selected the market mainstream 51 cups of milk tea samples. Among them, there are 6 pieces of milk tea with milk cover and 20 pieces of milk tea claiming "no sugar".
The experimenters commissioned the Nutritional Food Quality Inspection Station to test the sugar, fat, trans fatty acids, caffeine, etc. in the milk tea, and the truth was shocking!
51 samples of caffeine content of an average of up to 270mg / L, the highest is up to 828mg / L.
There are 4 samples of caffeine per cup of higher than 300mg, the highest one cup of content as high as 428mg.
428mg is the concept of what?
It is equivalent to the caffeine content of 2 cups of Americano or 8 cups of functional drinks.
The amount of caffeine in a cup of milk tea is by no means something a child can afford. This is because getting enough sleep is key to safeguarding your child's bone, intellectual, immune and cognitive development.
Not only that, regular intake of milk tea, the child's memory will deteriorate!
The University of Basel in Switzerland has done a set of comparative experiments, they found that:
Compared with normal children, after 10 days of excessive caffeine intake, the volume of gray matter in the medial temporal lobe of the child's brain was significantly reduced, and this part of the brain structure is being related to memory.
Another easily overlooked point is that small ingredients like pearls and taro balls in milk tea are not easily digested.
A girl in Zhejiang had a stomachache and was unable to have a bowel movement or eat for several days.
Abdominal CT shows that the child's stomach, transverse colon, ascending colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, all the way to the anus, are covered with peanut-shaped particles, dense enough to more than a hundred!
The doctor diagnosed that these indigestible round particles is the milk tea in the pearl, such a large area of the shadow, is a long time to drink pearl milk tea caused.
Pearls are made of tapioca and starch, which are inherently indigestible.
And individual merchants in order to make the pearl taste more Q pop, will also be added to the inside of the gum-like substances, thickening agents, etc., which make the pearl more difficult to be digested.
In addition, for children who do not have a sense of safety, when drinking milk tea with a straw, they will not pay attention to even suck several.
The child's trachea is very thin and prone to the risk of choking.
A foreign media outlet has reported that a 19-year-old Chinese girl had difficulty breathing after inhaling three pearls in a row, and then her hands turned black, ultimately causing an irreparable tragedy.
According to the "White Paper on China's Gout Status Report" statistics:
China's gout patients more than 80 million people, and is rapidly increasing at an annual growth rate of 9.7% per year. It can be said that gout has become the second largest metabolic disease in China after diabetes.
What we need to pay great attention to is that the claws of gout have begun to extend to children.
Two days ago I saw a news, a 12-year-old boy's hands and feet inexplicably swollen, but also called for amputation, a hundred.
The child's parents took to the hospital to check and found that, at a young age, even suffered from gout. The child's body blood uric acid up to 830uml / L, is the normal male uric acid upper limit of fully twice!
The doctor carefully inquired about the child's dietary habits and found the cause of the disease: take the drink as water to drink, basically do not drink plain water.
A survey in the United States showed that people who drink a lot of sweet drinks, the incidence of gout is 120 times higher than those who do not drink sweet drinks.
Long-term intake of fructose in beverages will make the body's uric acid level rise. When the uric acid in the body accumulates to a certain level, the crystals are deposited into the joints and gout is induced.
If you take the sugar content of the drinks on the market, with 4g a piece of sugar cube, the experimental data is also quite scary!
A study shows that 1 cup of 500ml milk tea is equivalent to 11.5 cubes of sugar, which is about 50g of sugar!
And China's release of the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents 2016" stipulates that the daily intake of sugar is no more than 50g, and it is best to control it at less than 25g.
That is to say, a cup of milk tea, almost more than a day's sugar intake!
Long-term, not only prone to gout, but also increase the risk of obesity, fatty liver, diabetes, osteoporosis and many other diseases.
For each age group, the child's daily sugar intake, the World Health Organization also has recommendations:
Sugar-sweetened beverages in the list of formulas, ranked in the forefront of the white granulated sugar, maltose, as well as the addition of sugar substitutes, such as aspartame, acesulfame and so on.
In the control of the child's sugar intake, parents do not have to be too anxious, the supermarket is common in those sugary drinks, the baby under 4 years old don't touch, 4 ~ 5 years old baby drink a mouthful or two is okay.
In addition, children under 5 years old, caffeinated beverages are best not to drink. In addition to milk tea contains caffeine, these drinks also have:
In short, the development stage of the child, to stay away from milk tea, a lot of sugar, excessive caffeine. When it comes to your child's health, food safety is the first line of defense.