IT Times reporter Shen Yibin Figure One Map.com
In the scorching summer, the sun is scorching the earth, and the dry and stuffy air makes people just want to escape into the air-conditioned room as soon as possible. Take a sip and the cold, sweet and cold will spread from the tip of your tongue to your whole body, sweeping away the heat and irritability.
When the milk tea bottoms out, the full "guilt" will come to my heart again, "How many calories is this cup?" "How many days do you have to run to burn off those calories?" The calorie vow of "bye bye to donuts, bubble tea, instant noodles" is no longer there.
How to satisfy the enjoyment of the mouth without making the clothes one size larger, you need to look at the nutritional "traffic light". A few days ago, the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission launched the nutrition and health guidance work, and new tea brands such as Bawang Tea Ji, Nai Xue's Tea, and Happy Lemon have the "Nutritional Choice" logo; Dingdong has become the first self-operated instant e-commerce company to land the "Nutritional Choice" logo. With these signs, everyone can rest assured that they will be able to pass towards health.
Dingdong Grocery Shopping: More than 90 drinks in the health category
With the advent of summer, major supermarkets will usher in a wave of summer beverage sales boom, and iced cola has become one of the best-selling drinks, but did you know that the nutritional health level of cola is only C? Because it contains high sugar content, saturated fatty acids, and trans fatty acids, cola is also nicknamed "fat house happy water". And some seemingly healthy teas, but the nutritional health level is "on par" with Coke. So which of these many beverages are healthy?
Recently, Dingdong Grocery has launched the "Nutritional Choice" grading label, and the first batch of more than 90 beverage products has been identified to help consumers choose products according to their ingredient needs.
Only after entering the category of "alcoholic beverages", you can see many carbonated drinks, functional drinks, fruit juices, tea drinks and other drinks, which are marked with green, yellow and red "ABCD" words, which are the "nutritional choice" grading logo.
According to the grading criteria, Grade A is a sugar-free and low-fat health drink that does not contain trans fatty acids and sugar substitutes, and the higher the grade, the lower the health, among which non-dairy sugars, non-sugar sweeteners, saturated fatty acids and trans fatty acids are the main rating criteria.
In order to let consumers have a clearer understanding of the ingredients of the drink, they can also view the beverage ingredient list after entering the detailed interface of the product, some of the additives are marked in green, and you can directly understand the working principle of the additive and the impact on human health by clicking on it.
The reporter of "IT Times" will compare the two common carbonated drinks on the market, Sprite and Yuanqi Forest, Sprite as a C-grade drink, containing sodium benzoate, sucralose, acesulfame potassium three additives are marked, of which sodium benzoate is a food preservative, it can enter the cell to interfere with the permeability of the cell membrane of microorganisms such as molds and bacteria, inhibit the activity of microbial intracellular respiratory enzymes, and thus play a preservative role.
In recent years, the "0 sugar, 0 calories and 0 fat" Yuanqi Forest has been rated as a B-level drink, which does not contain preservatives such as sodium benzoate, and the sweetness of the sweetener erythritol is only 60%-70% of sucrose, which is one of the components of low-calorie drinks. This is also the reason why the Yuanqi forest is healthier than Sprite.
The most well-known of the A-grade drinks is the Oriental Leaf, which only contains four ingredients: water, jasmine tea, vitamin C and sodium bicarbonate, compared to the dozen or so ingredients in other grade drinks. The simpler the ingredient list, the healthier the drink.
Bawang Tea Lady: Milk tea that can see the calories
The calories of a cup of milk tea are about 200~300 calories, and if it is estimated that the average adult consumes 8~10 calories per minute according to the running speed of ordinary adults, it takes at least 20 minutes to burn off the calories of a cup of milk tea. If you can see the calories of milk tea and choose products with lower calories, you may be able to run a few steps less.
As a member of the new tea drink brand, Bawang Tea Ji is its "secret to success" with healthy and low calories. After entering the Bawang Tea Mini Program, the "Nutritional Choice" grading logo in the lower left corner and the calorie value in the lower right corner are clearly visible. For example, the classic flavor is C, which is rated C in the case of standard sugar, and when light sugar is selected and no additional sugar is added, the grade will be upgraded to B.
In order to give consumers a more concrete perception of calories, below the calorie value, an analogy is also made with foods with the same calories. For example, 130 calories is about equal to half an avocado, and 163 calories is about equal to a bunch of grapes.
The "Low Burden Zone" is a special column prepared by Bawang Chaji for low-calorie drinks, although the calories are between 120 and 160, but all the drinks are B-grade. If you want to drink A-level drinks in Bawang Chaji, "Yuanshan Fresh Brewing" is a choice not to be missed, especially when consumers choose not to add additional sugar, the main ingredient is only tea, a cup of pure tea.
Under the order bar on the homepage of the Bawang Chaji Mini Program, slide to the far right to see the "Health Calculator", which is a calculator specially created for calories by Bawang Chaji. Before ordering, consumers can calculate calories in the calculator, and after selecting the drink type and standard, the GI value, calories, proteins, trans fatty acids, carbohydrates, fats, caffeine and other nutrients of this cup of milk tea will be automatically calculated below, and the data will be clear to consumers at a glance.
It is worth mentioning that when calculating, we should not only pay attention to the calories of milk tea, but also pay attention to the caffeine content, if the content is too high, insomnia and other conditions may occur.
Nayuki's tea: cups, bottles, and coffee
Founded in 2015, Nai Xue's tea, with the concept of "a good cup of tea, a soft European bag", has created a model that combines tea and snacks. As a member of the new tea drinks with logos, Nayuki's tea drinks are more diverse than those of Bawang Chaji.
Entering Naixue's tea applet, you can see a wide variety of drinks such as fresh fruit tea, fresh milk tea, pure tea, coffee, etc., in which the grade and calories will be clearly marked in the drink, and the grade will be changed according to the consumer's choice of sweetness. However, Nayuki's tea does not have a "health calculator", and consumers can only calculate it themselves by ingredients.
Coffee also uses "0 fat and 0 lactose" as a publicity gimmick, and in Nayuki's tea and coffee drinks, the nutritional choice grade becomes the standard for judging the health of coffee. For example, the drink with iced American 0 is grade A, and the special coffee with milk, coconut milk and other ingredients is added to the grade B.
According to the observation of the reporter of "IT Times", A-level drinks are mainly pure tea and pure coffee, and B-level drinks are fruit tea and some milk tea.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to the drinks sold in bubble tea shops with the "nutritional choice" grading label, the bottled drinks of Nai Xue's tea brand sold in convenience stores are also marked with grades, and they are mainly green labels, becoming one of the healthy tea drinks chosen by consumers.
Tip: A new tea drink for health
Previously, the Shanghai CDC had conducted a nutritional analysis of the top three on-site milk teas of 13 brands in the city, and among the 122 tea drinks, 93.3% of the milk teas with nominal "no additional sugar" were actually more than 0.5g/100ml; 47.4% of the milk tea with the nominal "three-point sugar" was more than 5g/100ml. Drinks that are high in sugar and fat can cause blood sugar to rise, increasing the probability of diabetes and other diseases.
After the launch of the Shanghai Nutrition and Health Guidance Pilot Project, the four beverage brands of Bawang Chaji, Nai Xue's Tea, Happy Lemon and Hangzhou Leyuan became the first batch of Shanghai "Nutritional Choice" logo pilots, and the "Nutritional Choice" grading label allows consumers to choose healthy drinks. Even some new tea drinks that were not selected for the first batch of pilots have begun to focus on displaying the calories and nutrients of drinks in mini programs and takeaways.
For example, the Heytea GO applet compares calories with fruit calories, and after reaching a cooperation with Pamela, mark the "Pamela Recommended" drink, click on the "Recipe/Calorie Secret" below, and you can also see the calorie calculation and nutritional content test report of each cup of milk tea. Although brands such as Lele Tea and Shanghai Auntie do not have detailed calorie calculations, the calories of some tea drinks are also included in the order mini program. In addition, coffee ordering mini programs such as Luckin and Cudi have also added health labels such as 0 fat, 100% original juice, and 0 flavor.
According to the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, the beverage grading pilot will last for one year, during which it will fully collect suggestions from all parties, strive to improve the grading standards, set up norms and regulatory mechanisms, summarize experience, and provide a basis for the promotion and decision-making of Shanghai and relevant national departments.