Regarding the sugar content of milk tea, the Shanghai Municipal Consumer Protection Commission has been paying attention, as early as 2017 we did a special test, drinking a cup of normal sugar milk tea is equivalent to eating 7 pieces of 4.5g of about 4.5g of sugar cubes, if you drink a cup of milk tea with higher sugar content is equivalent to eating 13 pieces of 4.5g or so sugar cubes.
The reason why the Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission public account pays so much attention to milk tea is because it seems that milk tea cannot be missing in the lives of young people now, and we have published no less than 30 articles about milk tea in the past six months. With the continuous improvement of young people's health awareness, everyone needs anti-sugar for health, beauty and other reasons, so every time they want to order milk tea, they will hesitate. Therefore, in order to take care of the "sugar reduction and low fat" that everyone pursues, major milk tea shops are also constantly changing, and have launched sugar-free, three-point sugar, five-point sugar and other different sweetness options.
Regarding the distinction of these sweetnesses, we went to an unannounced visit again, and found that because the sugar addition of milk tea is completely manual, the error is large and uneven. Some brands of eight-point sugar even exceed the sugar content of whole sugar, such as Mingyang Classic Milk Tea. The proportion of sugar content indicated by the merchant is 0:30%:50%:80%:100%, while the proportion of sugar content we actually measured is 0:43%:68%:122%:100%, and the sugar content of eight points of sugar is higher than that of whole sugar.
In addition, the sugar content in different brands of milk tea with the same labeled sweetness is also completely different, some labeled three-point sugar is sweeter than other seven-point sugar, and some five-point sugar is less than other three-point sugar. For example, the three points of a little bit and Mingyang exceed the seven points of COCO, KOI, Tea Orange, Gongcha and Throbbing; The seven points of tribute tea are less sugar than the five or even three points of many brands.
According to the inspectors, most milk tea shops no longer use white sugar to boil syrup, and basically use all kinds of syrup directly. Among them, fructose syrup is a widely used syrup, which can increase the sweetness of the drink, but does not hide its own flavor. Excessive intake of fructose syrup may lead to an increase in blood sugar, such as diabetes, hyperglycemia and other diseases, you should reduce or avoid eating fructose syrup.
It can be seen that even the same milk tea, the sugar content and sweetener are completely different, and it may be misunderstood to choose from the sweetness given by the merchant. If you think the taste is similar, it is recommended to choose a brand with low sugar content.
Due to the lack of objective standards for the sugar content of milk tea, no matter how to distinguish, there is a strong arbitrariness. If the use of sugar is only based on the taste of consumers to feel one by one, consumer disputes will inevitably occur. Businesses need to be as clear and standardized as possible in the use of sugar content or sweeteners. For consumers, clear criteria make their choice of drink and sweetness more accurate.