How can drinking milk tea be healthier?

Two or three o'clock in the afternoon is the most sleepy time of the day after lunch

Tear off the straw plastic sleeve, use the tip of the straw to poke open the cover accurately and forcefully, after taking a sip of the rich milk tea, with a few Q-ball pearls still chewing in your mouth, reopen the work page or office on the computer before the lunch break Software, all of a sudden, full of energy

"It's still the same, the signature, hot drink, immortal grass, medium cup, no additional sugar

Sugar is too "beautiful"

An article "Why are humans obsessed with milk tea?" "The article reads: "The spread of milk tea is really like a biological invasion.

The traditional milk tea drunk in China's Tibet-Mongolia region is made from brick tea, fresh milk and salt.

In the 1970s, a professor of oral biology named Jacob Steiner did an experiment.

Gu Zhongyi, director of the Beijing Dietitian Association and a master of Tsinghua University School of Medicine, told China News Weekly that humans’ sweetness habits come from the reward mechanism during evolution

American writer David Courtlet wrote in "Five Hundred Years of Addiction" that sugar is not only a flavoring agent, but also a placebo.

The World Health Organization (WHO) mentioned in a guide on sugar intake for adults and children that free sugars, namely monosaccharides and disaccharides that people add to food, as well as naturally occurring in honey, syrups, and fruit juices, are recommended.

In August 2017, the Shanghai Consumer Rights Protection Commission tested 51 best-selling milk teas from 27 mainstream milk tea brands and found that the average sugar content of 27 milk teas with normal sweetness was 34 grams per cup, with the highest sugar content being as high as 34 grams per cup.

In order to meet the demands of health, merchants have introduced more options.

In November 2019, the Consumer Council of Fujian Province and the Consumer Council of Fuzhou City issued the results of the "Comparative Tests of Making and Selling Milk Tea".

There is no wife in the "wife cake", no milk in the milk tea

Some people make their own milk tea at home for health, but pour milk in the black tea, but it is not as fragrant as they want

Dietitian Tian Xue wrote on the "Doctor Lilac" platform that the silky taste of milk tea needs to be made with evaporated milk with a stronger milk flavor-evaporated milk is milk that has evaporated and doubled its concentration, so it is fat.

Open the takeaway platform, click on the menu of the "little" milk tea shop, and find any milk tea.

Non-dairy creamer is mainly made by artificial hydrogenation of vegetable oils such as soybean oil, instead of milk

The non-dairy creamer contains saturated fats and trans fatty acids at the same time
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With the advancement of technology, the trans fatty acids in non-dairy creamer are decreasing.
Milk tea does not contain much of this ingredient, but it still increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and dementia, and affects the development of children’s nervous system.

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The "Chinese Resident Dietary Guidelines (2016)" recommends that the daily intake of trans fatty acids should not exceed 2 grams
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The aforementioned Shanghai Consumer Protection Committee tested 51 best-selling milk teas and found that 4 trans fatty acids exceeded the standard, ranging from 3.
7g to 6.
2g
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In 2011, a paper published in "Food Science" "Determination of Trans Fatty Acids in Milk Tea by Gas Chromatography", "really true" this data, found that the content of trans fatty acids in a cup of 300ml milk tea is 0.
5g~2.
7g Between
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If the milk cover is added, the fat content will be more
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The milk cap is mainly made by high-speed whipping of cream with a fat content of more than 30%.
The flavor comes from cheese powder, sea salt and other additives
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Nutritionist Tian Xue pointed out that most milk tea shops do not use natural cream, but choose cheaper vegetable cream or even milk cover powder, and the ingredients return to processed vegetable oil products like non-dairy creamer
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So, you can simply remember: the more silky you want, the more fat you want
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The Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission's test results found that in 51 cups of milk tea, there are 6.
3 grams of fat in 100 ml of milk tea with a milk cover, while the index of milk tea without a milk cover is only 2.
7 grams
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The country recommends that adults consume less than 60 grams of fat per day.
Among the milk tea samples selected in the previous study, a cup of milk covered milk tea with the highest fat content has a fat content of 41 grams
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Small materials such as pearls, coconuts, taro balls are generally made of tapioca starch with some wheat protein and food additives, which are equivalent to refined staple foods, which are essentially sugars
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In addition, it should be noted that they often have added sugar, especially those like red beans and puddings, which also have a high sugar content
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How to drink milk tea healthily?

In January 2021, a 22-year-old female teacher in Changsha, Hunan, who drinks an average of a cup of milk tea every day, was suddenly admitted to the ICU and was diagnosed as "diabetic ketoacidosis"-this is an acute complication of diabetes.
She almost Drink a cup of milk tea every day
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There is a lot of similar news.
A 28-year-old programmer drank three or four cups of milk tea a day.
After losing 20 pounds in 3 months, he suffered from ketoacidosis.
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Ruan Guangfeng, a nutritionist and master of nutrition and food safety at China Agricultural University, said that these cases themselves may have had high blood sugar and even diabetes problems.
For normal healthy people, drinking milk tea normally should not cause diabetic ketoacidosis.

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However, even if they do not go to this extreme, people still hope to be more healthy and happy
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Some young people with a cup of milk tea in their left hand and a cup of Coke in their right hand have already begun a "half-sugarism" life; in Douban and Zhihu communities, topics such as "how to drink milk tea without getting fat" and "what are the consequences of drinking milk tea" A large number of people gathered below
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Xu Ying, an associate researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, taught how to make milk tea at home: brew black tea or make black tea bags to make a tea base, add fresh milk and sugar or honey
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It is best to use black tea, because black tea is a fully fermented tea with a more mellow taste
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If you must drink milk tea sold outside, choose milk tea with milk as the main raw material
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Tian Xue pointed out that if the place to buy milk tea is not boxed fresh milk, but a powder or liquid that is not packaged like milk, it is most likely to be non-dairy creamer
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Some nutritionists pointed out that to keep your eyes open, generally speaking, the ones labeled "latte", "alcohol milk" and "cow milk" are more likely to have added milk instead of non-dairy creamer
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Although there are pitfalls in "less sugar" and "no sugar", try to choose less than three cents of sugar, after all, a little bit less is healthier
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High-fat, high-sugar snacks such as milk caps and red beans should also be avoided as much as possible
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In terms of time, Gu Zhongyi, director of the Beijing Dietitians Association and master of Tsinghua University School of Medicine, suggested that milk tea should be taken between meals, because this is when blood sugar is relatively low, or after strenuous exercise.
It can add sugar, protein and electrolytes to muscles and counteract the side effects of milk tea
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In addition, taking into account the caffeine in milk tea, be careful of its impact on sleep when drinking
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Zhong Kai, PhD in Food Safety and Director of Kexin Food and Health Information Exchange Center, believes that if you want to drink milk tea healthy, you don’t have to worry about the frequency of “drinking a cup a day” or “a cup of a few days”.
It is important to control the total sugar.
Intake, you can’t drink milk tea and still worry about sweets such as ice cream, cakes, cookies, and chocolate
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"This is the overall control.
While enjoying the sweetness, we must know how to choose
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Our own dietary pattern is more important than (caring about) a specific food
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Gu Zhongyi said that in daily life, pay attention to eat more vegetables and fruits, ensure protein intake, maintain blood sugar balance, and control the total daily intake of sugar below 50 grams
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In addition, when drinking sweet drinks may also be more than a change of taste, richness guarantee, in addition to tea can also choose sugar content is not high black coffee, tea and so pure
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