BUBBLE TEA - COOL BLOG KILL !!!

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 what is bubble tea  ?  Take a cup, plop in a handful of round, gelatinous pearls of tapioca, top it with brewed black or green tea, mix in some milk, sugar, flavouring, and ice. Then shake it all up, and you've got yourself a bubble tea.

Lest anyone think low Chinese product quality and potentially dangerous ingredients are part of a secret program to hurt only those in the West, guess again. The most recent food ingredient scandal from China impacts its own people first. The latest headlines point to a new bubble tea scandal that is turning out to be far more sour than sweet. According to The Shanghai Daily, "bubble tea could be dangerous to your health as cheap raw materials -- milk powder, starch balls and sweeteners -- used by some vendors may contain banned food additives including poisonous plastic and arsenic". As if that was not enough, "although starch is claimed to be the main ingredient suppliers add wheat gluten, a plastic, to make the balls chewier. Plastic is a banned food additive. The sweetener is no better, according to the vendor. It is added with chemicals such as sodium sulfate, which is used as a washing powder and banned as a food additive." And you thought the sugar was the most harmful part!

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Bubble tea brings a lot of sweet excitement to our taste buds but it is also very harmful to health.

Milk essence is the main ingredient in bubble tea. Ten cups of fresh milk cannot match the taste of a teaspoon of milk essence. The main ingredient of milk essence is hygrogenated vegetable oil, a type of transfat. Experts says that a glass of 500ml of bubble tea a day far exceed the allowable
limit of transfat for any person. It will lead to heart and blood vessel diseases.

Milk essence gives the bubble tea the fragrance and make it tasty. The fragrance and tastiness derived from a type of chemical. This chemical has trace of arsenic, lead, copper and many harmful minerals.
Long term consumption can lead to heart and blood vessel disease, cancer, asthma and other health complications. It reduces the IQ of children.

Consuming the black bubbles pearls is equivalent to consuming plastic. Normally these bubbles were made from
casava (tapioca) powder. This alone does not give the rubbery texture. To make it more rubbery, millet protein is added. Some “black hearted” businessmen felt that this is still not rubbery enough. so, an artificial plastic powder is added. This type of artificial plastic material will never be digested and absorbed into the body. It will remain in the body and cause havoc to our health. You can imagine what will happen to your health after prolonged consumption of transfat and plastic!!!!

FOR YOUR HEALTH SAKE, PLEASE ABSTAIN FROM BUBBLE TEA.