Milk tea is a synthetic beverage. Despite containing neither milk nor tea, its artificially enhanced flavor makes it addictive. However, the issues surrounding milk tea have never ceased. Nowadays, it's common to see people holding a cup of milk tea on the streets, as it has become a fashion trend. Yet, we should recognize that the health hazards of milk tea far outweigh its delicious taste.
The nutritional value of milk tea is far inferior to a sip of pure milk. During its production, for convenience and speed, a large amount of various flavorings, colorings, and additives are used. These additives include milk powder substitutes, saccharin, aspartame, and even caffeine. A cup of synthetic milk tea is equivalent to three cans of Red Bull and two stimulants, with its trans-fatty acid content reaching up to 10 grams. According to international standards, the daily intake of trans-fatty acids should not exceed 2.2 grams. Excessive intake can negatively impact cardiovascular health, brain development, and bone health.
Trans-fatty acids have no nutritional value but can lead to weight gain. Although technology continues to advance, allowing us to remove trans-fatty acids from milk tea, this does not mean it becomes healthy. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to stop giving this synthetic milk tea to children and the elderly.
Additives in synthetic milk tea, such as milk flavoring, fruit flavoring, tea flavoring, gardenia powder, milk powder substitutes, colorings, carrageenan, guar gum, high-fructose corn syrup, brown sugar syrup, white sugar, sodium cyclamate, saccharin, aspartame, tapioca starch, etc., are used to meet consumers' addictive demands. Caffeine is even added, and the trans-fatty acid content often exceeds standards by several times. Long-term consumption of such harmful ingredients has an impact on the human body no less than smoking, posing serious health risks, especially for children and the elderly.
At the same time, with the prosperity of the milk tea industry and the proliferation of various franchise stores, many businesses, in pursuit of convenience and mass production, have compromised the natural attributes of milk tea. They replace original ingredients with synthetic foods, prioritizing quick profits while neglecting product quality and consumer health issues.
Making a cup of milk tea yourself doesn't take much time, but it requires effort. More often, people still choose to buy it. However, no one in the market offers handmade, original milk tea. Perhaps only street vendors have eco-friendly, conscientious sellers.
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Mixue Ice City has even opened stores inside universities, with very long queues. Do you think they know that the 3-yuan cup of lemon water contains artificial additives? Pre-made meals are about to enter campuses, and they don't know there are issues either? Is it truly ignorance, or are they pretending not to know? Napoleon said, China is a sleeping lion. Is it truly sleeping, or pretending to sleep?