What Does Bubble Tea Do To Your Body? The 30-Day Drinking Test
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ม.ค. 2021
- Is frequent drinking of bubble tea bad for your health? In Singapore, there are over 400 bubble tea stores - from MilkSha, Gongcha, Koi, to Tiger Sugar - each promising creative flavours and ingredients such as Brown Sugar Milk Tea, Milk Foam Alisan, Mango Matcha Latte and Creme Brulee Strawberry Latte.
Studies show that a cup of milk tea with pearls contains 8 teaspoons of sugar - 33% more than the daily recommendations from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Besides sugar, this highly sought-after beverage also contains a significant amount of caffeine.
But to what extent does consuming bubble tea have on our health?
In this month-long drinking test, #TalkingPoint host Steven Chia finds out the side effects and health risks of consuming bubble tea, by drinking 3 cups of bubble tea a week - the average amount a bubble tea lover in Singapore drinks. His weight, inflammatory markers and cholesterol level were closely monitored over the course of these 30 days.
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wow i’m pretty amazed that the host used his own body as sacrifice for this experiment
My friend literally drink bubble tea almost every, like bitch where u get that money from
Seriously tho?
Well, it's his job requirement ya 🤷🏻♂️😆
This was not a sacrifice. And a person won't be so stubborn to only drink bubble tea.
The torture to tell us what should be obvious!😆
Give this man a medal and a trophy and everything to help him healthier
Agree. This video makes me want to switch to drinking Coke instead. At least its healthier then BBT.
thank you!
@@schadenfreude6274 i’m sure if you make it yourself and can control the ingredients it’s probably better for you. Better than coke by miles, for sure.
Coke is just as bad.
A typical bubble tea drinker doesn't drink 3 times a week, they drink at least 3 times A DAY
Agree every place I go I buy 2-3 new flavours
I thought bubble tea lovers would just drink 1 or maybe even 2 cups every day but wow
hopefully they dont live in America because drinking bubble tea daily will causes them to be is a massive debt when they get their medical bills lol
exactly
They really think money goes on tree
Doctor: you are no longer on low risk but moderate risk for cardiovascular diseases.
The reporter: oh wow.
😭😭😭
Ask not what bubble tea does to your body; but what it does for your soul.
lol
😄😁😄
😂yesss
His face after every sip of bubble tea is priceless lmao. I remembered watching this on tv and cringing when he said he was gonna drink 100% - literal death
I thought he was doing 50%. I think people who get half sugar are animals, I can't imagine consistently getting full
xDDD
I’ve never had full sugar. My friends got full sugar when they tried it the first time and practically died. It’s way too sweet.
@@rachelcookie321 same
@@rachelcookie321 There is no need for him to do 100% at all. I choose 25% every time or no sugar. It is totally flexible. Ice coffee frappuccinos are worse in terms of sugar levels! This I suspect is a hit piece on bubble tea industry which is hitting the cafe coffee industry hard.
"You now no longer on a low risk, but at a moderate risk"
"Oh wow"
they literally caused him to die faster wts
from someone who drinks black coffee to bubble tea that’s too much bro
as someone who is a bobarista, i see the same customers who come in and order double or triple the amount of boba pearls. always lower the sugar levels even if it is too bitter for you. toppings have a crazy amount of calories + the "cream" toppings are made with lots of sugar.
I always love and get 0% sugar
This is assuming that he ate the same types of food he was eating before the experiment. He should have that variable constant. Otherwise, the difference in risk measures could have been due to other stuff like food also.
Exactly there are a lot of sugar in ice frappucinos, fruit juices, flavoured yogurt (try eating plain yogurt to see the difference), ice-creams, soft drinks or condensed milk drinks as well. Sugar doesn't just come bubble tea alone.
All this for "Oh wow" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
So, I used to work next door to a boba tea shop in a mall. I love boba tea. I got it at least once, sometimes twice a day. usually it was an iced black tea, non-dairy creamer, no sweetner, honey popping boba (and coffee jelly if I was feeling fancy). They eventually started making the tea when they saw me in line. And eventually we became friends and they stopped charging me altogether. (Love my boba tea friends you are the real MVPs) I lost 20lbs because I wasn't eating garbage and filling up on tea. If you are get 100% sweetener, it's not really a surprise; you're gonna have a bad time
YES I work at a boba tea shop now and I’m gonna start getting the lower calorie options, but boba tea with the pearls really fills me up so I’m using that to help me on my weight loss!
lol this channel is becoming obsessed with bubble tea haha 🧋
As I age, all the dramas that I used to watch no longer interest me and I tend to go for informative channel, documentaries that are unbiased or find out answers to questions that are relevant to my life but I don't have the time to find out.
Kinda glad that CNA is appealing to me in this aspect.
Lao liao
thanks for watching!
CNA - What happens to your Body when you drink Bubble Tea X 3 Times a week?
Me - OMG, i have it Everyday
I know right?!? This is funny cuz I ordered one every afternoon for three and a half years and nothing happened. They were delicious. The only reason I stopped is cuz I got stuck outside China during the pandemic
wish we had known of you before starting our show!
@@thesincitymama nothing happening right now doesn't mean something bad will happen in the future
@@thesincitymama Bruh it's only been 3 years that's not long at all lol, wait until ten to fifteen years
bubble milk tea is basically dessert in a cup. its caloric value is anywhere between 200 and 300 calories depending on type and size. it's equivalent to consuming 2-3 scoops of ice cream daily. I personally don't get milk tea with boba every day - maybe once or twice a week. So I'm sure I'll/we'll be alright. And let's be honest those who do love boba milk tea don't actually have it every day...unless of course, you are crazy and have given up on life.
Really succinct and informative!
Good thing that the local Tea store owner is also a big health conscious that always thinks what is best for her customers. Bon appetite tight tea.
just dont drink 100% sugar 🙄✋‼️
100% sugar with oreos and all that on top, I'm not surprised, that's probably worse than McDonald's 🤣
Sugar cane juice is the real 100% sugar - the amount of water/ ice added
Still unhealthy and expensive with reduced sugar so 🤷
Dude just used his body for an experiment
Super size me
This is what i waiting for from this channel!
Bless your body i swear bless your heart for using yourself as the test subject 🥺
But my BBT is just tea (green/black/oolong, etc), without milk, no sugar because I have the sugar from pearls 🤔
I love BBT; it's food for the soul. But I always order 0% sugar if I am adding toppings, since most pearls are cooked with sugar and subsequently soaked in sugar water, so 0% sugar brewed tea with toppings is already mildly sweet. Tips for ordering a healthier BBT: 1. Plain brewed teas have the least calories, compared to flavoured teas, macchiatos and milk teas (with the same sugar level, toppings added). 2. Choose 0% or 25% sugar level (lesser sugar added, lesser calorie). 3. Choose FRESH Milk Tea over Milk Tea (milk teas are, in general, made with creamer - artificial + unhealthy). 4. Avoid drinking macchiato (the foam cap is basically whipped cream - fattening) 5. Ask for less toppings (pearls are carbohydrates; the lesser you consume, the lower your calorie intake). 5. Choose healthier toppings like Konjac Jelly over Tapioca Pearls (Konjac Jelly at least have fibre, which can help you to feel full). 6. Opt for flavoured BBT made using FRESH fruit juice instead of those made using flavoured syrup (because it's artificial). P.S. I still LOVE my BBT. 😍
Thanks for great Info..really appreciated 👏👏👍🏻
Thank you for sacrificing your body and health for us to know the negative effects of bubble tea. Please be healthy and exercise after the one month challenge.
Feel like having BBT now
the drink should be renamed to Bubble Death
Nice, im getting a cup of bubble tea after this.
They are SWEET! Which is why I just started opting for the lightly sweetened oolong with no boba or unsweet with boba. I do miss my honeydew milk tea though.
I used to get the Hongkong Coffee bubble tea with half the syrup. Still sweet for me. Eventually just stopped drinking it because it's not my kind of drink. If I have a hankering for the pearls, I just buy the already made packs then add them to my iced coffee
To be honest unless you're ordering a more traditional tea such as Jasmine, Assam, Oolong, Earl Grey, Ginseng and others like that (with Camellia sinensis) then what you're drinking isn't really tea, it's just an artificially flavored powder with dairy-free creamer.
Source: worked at a bubble tea shop. Strawberry, Honeydew, Taro, and other milk teas were artificially flavored mix powders. Matcha really depends; I've been both the Matcha essence and the artificial stuff. But yeah, way to be safe is to avoid these more complicated ones. Sorry guys, Taro made from the actual root isn't even a thing in probably 99% of bubble tea shops.
@@Darkwratheonthank you for sharing this info🙏🏾 its appreciated
Wow.... I would get severe sugar rush which will cost be to be tired all the time... I really admire him for doing this experiment but I hope his body is gonna be okay also.
I always get the 25% sugar option and it's just the right amount for me. I can't understand how people drink the regular one cause even the 50% tastes way too sweet for me.
i go for no sugar. Obviously the pearls have sugar lol
1 month of drinking bubble tea? Man I can't even finish 1 drink because it's too sweet.
Drank BBT for a month, I can't.
Yeah the black pearls make me sick so I just choose the popping pearls....and taro milk tea is literally the best id drink it every day if my wallet wasn't so empty🤤
popping boba is just sweet juice inside an edible ball. i'd rather go for grass jelly or aloe.
just realize that i only had one cup of boba milk in 2020, yeay.
oh i’m sorry it’s twice.
2020¿
@@fatpenguin5295 yes??
That's great. it's hard for a sweet tooth like me.what do you usually drink?
@@sky_rae7062 2-3 liters of water a day is really enough for me not to drink anything sugary. but, if i’m craving for something sweet i usually eat fruit, tanghulu, a spoon of dessert, 2 spoons of ice cream, a slice of jelly or a cookie. but again, if i really really wanna drink something sweet i drink smoothies, chocolate made from milk and chocolate bar (i don’t drink instant choco drink cs i think the sugar is unnatural) also you can add peppermint leaves it’s become mint choco. i’m really trying not to eat too much sugar, if i can’t hold it at least it’s natural:)
A reminder to care more on our sugar intake, this is just one of the good examples
For me, I’m drinking my bbt without sugar. And only sometimes I try some of them with sugar because we can’t remove it 😂 And even though I love bbt, I don’t drink it 3 times per week, I don’t even know if I drink one every month or every 2 months ? So it doesn’t really impact me, then everything should be eaten in moderation even drinking ! 😉
Idk just make your own at home, way more healthy. I don’t put any sugar except a bit on the tapioca so they taste something or simply use honey.
i make my own boba at home and this is how i do it:
Thai tea as a base usually
maybe a serving of boba? could be more, could be less. After i finish cooking them i put about a tablespoon of brown sugar on them and mix it up to dissolve it.
Maybe 1/2 cup of reduced fat milk?
Around a tablespoon of some kind of sweetener if i want it sweeter
Idk if this is more or less healthy from buying it at a shop, but idk. my parent’s coffee has more sugar and calories than my boba, that’s for sure.
I keep drinking bubble teas since December till now because of the caused of dizziness quite often, I was told to take more sugar to avoid that and last time I ordered bubble teas with 50 percent sugar like once in awhile and now I do that almost everyday with 70 to 100 percent sugar because that's the only way I can find something with more sugar
BBT is such a beautiful calorie bomb 😭
I only grab boba drinks once in a very long while!!! But recently I bought everything to do a DIY at home substituted regular sugars for Monk sugar and whole milk for unsweetened Almond milk. Still I founded this to be a heavy drink.
He's a hero
Watching as I'm sipping on my brown sugar boba milk tea...👀
Me who drinks boba once a month: interesting 👁 👄 👁
This is an interesting video but were you only drinking boba as your full diet for a month? No fruits or veggies, just boba? Because I don't think you can count living off just boba or living off just coffee as healthy. I think even coffee would make you lethargic if your only living off of it because your not getting all the vitamins your body needs. Although now I would like to see a video on a person living off coffee because you were doing a comparison. I'm genuinely curious and think that would make an awesome follow up video. Thanks for inspiring my curiosity.
I never like the pearls... Cause I don't like to chew while drinking... I always ask to replace with to glass jelly
Grass jelly
Omg I love BBT, but I don’t add milk or cream. I just get a jasmine green tea sometimes with bubbles and sometimes without. I agree if I had to drink a bubble tea with milk and pearls 3x a week, I’d be sick and fat too.
I cutback to 1-2 a month bc I know it’s not great for my body. But I love bubble tea too much to completely stop drinking it.
Thank you for the info. I love milk tea boba so much . And im trying to drink it once a week . Its so hard . I want it everyday
Favorite flavor ? And anyone recommend any good ones or flavors or places ?
I always order mine without sugar. Sometimes even without “milk” because a lot of places don’t use real milk. I like the boba part so I often get that. Even so I wonder what part the boba has in increasing my cholesterol. Currently about the only carbs I get is from boba, and maybe the breading on popcorn chicken which I limit myself on due to its additional cost.
Hey I thought snuff films were not allowed on youtube
The culprit is all those pearls, other add-ons, cream, milk and sugary syrups that makes the BBT looks and taste yummy. Without these it's not BBT. So much better to treat it as a reward (like cakes) and drink occasionally instead of an everyday drink. Drink in moderation so everyone's happy. 😊
No reduced sugar?? Crazy~ I order mine 25% and think those are too sweet. Tapioca pearls are coated with too much sugar these days. Traditionally they were not.
I find it really extreme is that a heartland shopping mall in bukit batok le quest has 4 bubble tea shop
I would sacrifice for this test
2:10 lmao the guy in the background
I care about my mental health more than I care about my physical health, so I will still drink as much bubble tea
If ur physical health is in bad shape, of course it'll also affect your mental state.
LMAOOO
The host risked it all for us 😭
that's why I gave up drinking bubble tea. if i go out and have to order sth (cuz my friends are there too), I will always choose non sugar tea or non sugar juices. It just feel so right when you take a sip of sour juices or bitter tea. it's been around 3 years till now
Oh wow, i have one bubble tea a month or 2. But always get no or 1/4 sugar.
Honestly I could Still go for bubble tea rn
oh my please stay healthy
Kudos to this guy for sacrificing his body to drink bubble tea
Ooh, the sinful flavour. Coz everything sinful are usually delicious 😈
I wonder how the health diagnosis would change if he repeated the experiment but with only pure or fruit tea, and varying the toppings between either pearls or osmanthus jelly. I'm asking as a lactose intolerant, cow milk allergic, only fruit bubble tea drinker.
In San Francisco they bubble tea stories offering costumes the drink. I always put low sugar and less ice !
0 sugar and less ice for me. Because i add some toppings, and the toppings and the milk used already sweetened the tea.
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i can say last year i only drink that kind of drink 5 times. those only because i crave it sometimes.
it's too sweet but i don't know sometimes i want to eat that
He should check blood sugar levels and also blood pressure before and after the 30 day period.
When I go to bbt shops,I only buy the tea and usually put the sugar level to 50% soooo- (I don't like the pearls cause they are too sweet for me)
Lmao why did he even do this. The dedication.
Thank you for doing this so I don't have to
omg please give him a chance to do like a 30-day detox or something hahahaha
8 teaspoons of sugar sounds ridiculous!
the pearls are the essence!!
They are nasty wtf
“Watches this boba video, craves macaroni and cheese. Goes to eat macaroni and cheese. Like wth.”
he literally did this to show us all something we already know
#hopehelosestheweightsoon
I feel personally attacked.
I already drink bubble tea 2, 3x a week lol well, DRANK, can't really leave home anymore now. Just don't get the extra sugary ones with oreo, extra sweets and all that jazz, also, choose low sugar %
I used to drink a load of bubble tea now I usually drink the gourd tea with grass jelly.
Would this be gd enough to scare bubble tea lovers? XD
I stick to milk tea and avoid drinking the boba. But... I had the experience once in HK so I'm biased.
Knowing how much sugar goes in bbt, i just cant bring myself to consume it.
Have not bought a bbt drink for more thn 3 years now.
I make my own macha latte at home if i have a craving for something sweet.
For someone that doesnt drink bbt at all to 3 times a week as a replacement for black coffee is a huge jump that is probably why his body reacted so much.
I like the pearls but I've choked on it at least 7 of them per cup 😂
You should do a video about when you go back to no boba just back to back coffee😝
withdrawals???
My school has review his vid btw I’m Singaporean
Idc I'll still drink it.... But with 50 percent sugar
You expect us to drink it everyday?
It thought bubble tea used sweetner? Not sugar
never drank bubble tea in my life and i think i don't want to because its unnecessary but if i wanted to TRY it i probably would once and if i did like it i wouldn't drink it much since i don't like eating or drinking stuff with a lot of sugar
This scared me so I got boba drink to calm myself😂
😂😂
I would order my bubble tea without tapioca balls and no added sugar.
I had it pretty much every day for the last four weeks. I don’t sleep as good when drink it I’m tired more I also noticed I have to workout a lot more cardio to keep figure I want but pants still too tight. Wen I stopped a few days plus workout my figured went back to normal. If you want to stop and are addicted get it get it 50 percent-sugar then 25 percent sugar to get off it. It’s addicting. Then try to stop! I can’t see it being any better than Starbucks either … so atleast you can ask 25 percent sugar i I “think “ it’s less chemical than Starbucks. Some places make Thai tea and with 25 percent sugar it’s still good. You can get no sugar too Also there is truvia or take real honey with you too add to it yourself, Atleast your body knows how to digest honey and you get that feeling of driving and sipping something cold and good. ❤
those mukbang on bubble tea will have critical health issues in the next 3 year?
There was an article where someone gave up drinking bubble tea for a month to save money to travel overseas. And she did, she managed to travel on first class, that was how much money she managed to save.
On the other hand, to be honest - when I saw the host at his house, he seems to have lost weight already.
I drink bubble tea every few months but now I haven’t drink it in a year
my man put his life on the line and then said oh wow