Will sugar-free milk tea make you fat?

Milk tea is a very popular drink in modern life, especially among young people who are the main consumer group of milk tea. The characteristics of milk tea are high sugar content, sweet taste, and it is very comfortable to drink. Excessive intake of sugar can cause obesity. Therefore, drinking sugar-free milk tea is a popular trend in modern life. However, will drinking sugar-free milk tea make you fat? Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

The total calories of a cup of 400~500g sugar-free milk tea are around 200 calories. Although it is sugar-free milk tea, it is still high in sugar, protein, and flavors, making it an unhealthy drink. Drinking too much can easily make you fat, and the fat will easily accumulate in the belly, forming a medium-sized and wide body shape.

The so-called sugar-free milk tea is actually just milk tea with extra sugar added. The original ingredients still contain sugar, so even sugar-free milk tea is high in calories and drinking too much will make you fat. Milk tea is made by boiling milk and black tea or green tea together, so it seems that the source of calories should be the milk. However, in order to reduce costs, some milk tea shops use creamer as a substitute for fresh milk. The important component of creamer is trans fatty acids, and the added boba or pearls are made of tapioca flour, which is a type of starch and a very high-calorie sugar substance. Of course, in addition to boba and pearls, there are many other milk tea ingredients. Like soft cooked red beans, smooth grass jelly, and even taro balls of various colors. During the production process, a large amount of sugar is added to adjust the taste of these ingredients.

Even for sugar-free milk tea, a lot of sugar is actually added to the ingredients during the production process, so the average sugar content of sugar-free milk tea is 14.8g, and some even reach more than 20 grams. Moreover, the country currently has no standard requirements for sugar-free mixed beverages.

The standard for sugar-free should be that the sugar content should be less than 0.5 grams per 100 grams. Therefore, many of the sugar-free milk teas on the market are not truly sugar-free. And as fat is the most common food in dairy products, don’t think that it’s okay just because there is tea in milk tea, because excessive fat intake can easily cause obesity.