Bubble Tea

In 1980 Bubble tea was originated as a beverage in Taiwan. A common misconception was originated by humans that tapioca balls will be their in the drink. This missconception was wrong because the term "bubble" indicates to the layer of bubbles which is form on top of the drink when the drink is shaken hardly. The pearls are ususally present in the beverage which are very chewy and can be taken through a wide straw.

Asian regions such as China, Hong Kong and Macau, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand widely use bubble tea drink. Bubble tea us taken in both iced form and in hot form using sweetened milk or often any other flavor. The most intresting characterstic of this tea is a gemmy balls made up of tapiioca or yam starch well-known as “pearls” pr “boba”. These gemmy balls are settled in the bottom of the cup. These balls are larger then the pearls used in tapioca pudding with a diameter of 6 millimeter. But occasionally smaller size pearls are used. Their color is often translucent brown with dark brown center. Other pearls of different color are used and often “jelly cubes” are also used. Tapioca pearls need an hour to cook and expand considerably. They are very sofy when cooked and drained plus added in sweet water before serving. As time moved new variations come to existence, giving many bubble tea recipes amon which is Snow-bubble tea. It is one of this variation which is a slushie-like drink with many flavors and colored balls. One drawback of this drink is that it use ice which makes the balls hard.

The original bubble tea recipe includes hot Taiwanese balck tea, tapioca pearls, condensed milk and honey. As popularity increases, variations were created in bubble tea. Now different bubble tea recipes are used to give exceptional flavor to the tea. Initially iced bubble tea with the hint of fruit flavor s began to appear, atlast with differnet variations the real fruits took the place of tea in bubble tea. In different pubs colored pearls are used with the fruit matching with pearl color having oversize straws to suck the pearls.

Bubble tea is usually flavored into two groups : fruit-flavored tea, milk-flavored tea. Milk tea uses mostly dairy or non-dairy creamers. Recipe for bubble tea even uses the powder, syrups, pulp or fruit jucies added to hot balck or green tea which is then blended into cocktail shaker or in blender with ice until chilled. The mixture is then combined with milk and cooked tapioca pearls.

Bubble tea kit can be purchased from bubble tea shop thorugh online order. Most of the shops serving wide varieties ranges coffee to fruit smoothies.these shops contains various flavors that are less familier to non-Asians those includes taro, honeydew and lychee but more familier to chocolate. Ovaltine, Milo, Horlicks are few of chocolate bubble tea flavors. Many bubble tea franchise is servicing in western countries, due to these franchises populus of western countries are accepting more bubble tea rather then coffee. Bubble tea franchises are even providing kits of bubble tea as to comfort the households.

Below is the Bubble tea nutrition information, which holds what bubble tea supplies to our body.

Plain Bubble Tea:

Serving portion one cup
Energy 160 kcal
Proteins 0.4g
Total fats 6g
Carbohydrates 27g
Dietary fiber 0g
Cholesterol 0g
Calcium 156mg
Sodium 8mg

Bubble Tea With Milk

Serving portion one cup
Energy 232kcal
Proteins 0.8g
Total fats 14.4g
Carbohydrates 24.4g
Dietary fiber 0g
Cholesterol 0g
Calcium 204mg
Sodium 32mg

Bubble Tea With Milk And Pearls

Serving portion one cup
Energy 340kcal
Proteins 0.4g
Total fats 13.6g
Carbohydrates 52.7g
Dietary fibre 1.7g
Cholesterol 0g
Calcium 217mg
Sodium 34mg