Sugar-free milk tea is healthier? 14 types of milk tea were tested and the results were not simple.

Fruit tea is really popular this summer, and almost every milk tea shop has launched its own brand of fruit tea. In fact, it is understandable that milk tea is greasy and is not as refreshing as fruit tea. After a sip, it makes people feel healthy and low in calories.

Eh? Wait a minute, do you think that fruit tea is just fruit + tea, so it won’t make you fat? It will make you healthy? Let us test it for you.

This year, Dad Review and Hangzhou.com selected 14 popular fruit teas for evaluation. Each one is a classic combination of "tea + fruit", with two sweetness levels: normal sugar and minimum sugar:

(Except for a lemonade, which won the entry ticket for this review with its price advantage of 4 yuan and super high popularity)

Sample fee 1001.3 yuan + testing fee 19860 yuan = 20861.3 yuan

Will the seemingly "healthy" fruit tea make you fat? Is it hygienic? Can you continue to drink it happily? Let's take a look at the actual test results.

1. Will fruit tea make you fat? "You love me, I love you, Mixue Bingcheng is so sweet", fruit tea is the real sweetness, and it contains a lot of sugar.

Among the 14 fruit teas, the one with the most sugar has a total sugar content of 67.1 grams. You should know that a can of cola, which is famous for its high sugar content, only contains 35 grams of sugar in a 330 ml can.

The total sugar content of other fruit teas is also not low:

The sugar content of normal sugar and minimum sugar is similar, which is already the basic operation of many milk tea shops.

What puzzled us was that the three cups of fruit tea, No. 3, No. 5, and No. 10, were actually sugared! The total sugar content of the least sugar was even higher than the normal sugar.

I suggest that these three companies should not let people choose the sweetness, and just make it into a blind box of sweetness. Anyway, it is not made according to the sweetness I choose...

What’s even more amazing is the fruit tea with 0 calories of sugar added.

Among them, the 13th one chose to add a dollar of 0-calorie sugar, which actually had a total sugar content 13.5 grams higher than the standard sweet, equivalent to adding 3 more sugar cubes! We don't know whether 0-calorie sugar was added, but it is true that two more spoonfuls of sugar were given.

The 0-calorie candy on the 14th isn’t much better. Although there’s no extra sugar, it’s better to just order it without sugar, which means less sugar and you can save a dollar.

Sugar is a source of happiness for many people, but consuming too much sugar will not only make you fat, but it is also really harmful to your health.

The Chinese Dietary Guidelines recommend that we should not consume more than 50 grams of added sugar per day, and preferably less than 25 grams. The sugar content of a cup of fruit tea can easily exceed 25 grams.

Although fruit tea tastes good, don’t drink too much.

2. I gained weight... and also had diarrhea? Some people have diarrhea after drinking fruit tea, and they think it's because the tea is too cold or their stomach is not strong enough. In fact, it may not be your stomach's fault.

We sent the fruit teas to the laboratory for microbiological testing. Some of the fruit teas were really hard to describe...

At present, my country has not yet formulated standards for freshly made milk tea or fruit tea. We referred to the national standard for beverages, which requires that the total colony count of non-commercial sterile beverages should not exceed 10,000 CFU/g and the coliform group should not exceed 10 CFU/g.

This standard is indeed a bit harsh for fruit tea, but there are still 6 fruit teas that meet the standard!

However, the total number of colonies of 370,000 for No. 5 and 450,000 for No. 3 (CFU/g) is a bit too high. Even if you have a strong stomach, you may not be able to withstand such fruit tea.

Here I want to emphasize that the microbial situation is affected by many factors.

Our test results can only represent the test results of one store and one product at a time. If the batch of raw materials, flavors or processing personnel are changed, the results may be completely different. This result can only prove that the sanitary conditions of milk tea shops are indeed worrying.

Let me tell you a secret: the things we like to eat in fruit tea are also the things that microorganisms like to eat.

Those with weak stomachs can reduce the frequency of drinking or make their own fruit tea.

3. Will drinking fruit tea cause insomnia? For many people, milk tea not only makes them fat, but also causes another headache: after drinking one cup, they will suffer from insomnia until dawn. Will fruit tea be better?

Dad Review also tested the caffeine content in fruit tea: the average caffeine content per cup is 39.3 mg/cup (a can of Red Bull contains 50 mg of caffeine), which is much lower than the caffeine content of the 12 milk teas we tested last year (an average of 134 mg/cup).

If you are prone to insomnia, you can replace milk tea with fruit tea, but try not to drink it at night.

Finally, let's summarize the results of this fruit tea evaluation:

In fact, for those who love to drink all kinds of "sweet drinks", homemade fruit tea is the healthiest. The fruit is fresh, the operation is clean, and the amount of sugar added is also clear.

Dad Review made a decision that "goes against ancestral teachings" and plans to share the recipe of fruit tea with everyone.

If you are worried about the hygiene of fruit tea outside, make your own happy water according to our recipe~

Do it yourself and double the fun!