Lesson 2: Addicting to milk tea, many diseases are "exposed"

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The milk tea fever has not subsided, but there have been warnings when using this drink too much. Behind those attractive cups of milk tea are hidden corners that not everyone knows.

itself stunned by the ingredients of a cup of milk tea If you want to buy ingredients to make milk tea, just sit at home and go online and you can buy all the tea, pearls, ice cream, syrup...

at very cheap prices.websites sell all kinds of ingredients advertised as Thai and Taiwanese but very cheap: King caramelized pear 1kg is 35,000 VND old; V73 powder 68,000 VND/kg; indo fat cream powder 73,000 VND/kg...

At Dong Xuan market (Hanoi), consumers can easily buy any ingredients to make milk tea at a very cheap price: 1 kg of mid- price 60,000 kg of powdered milk extracted from a sack of about 50 kg; 1 tea package of 10 large filter bags for 50,000; pearls 25 thousand/1 kg... The above types are not of any origin.

All stalls said that the ingredients for making milk tea are cream powder, tea bags and syrup, absolutely no place instructed to make it with fresh milk or condensed milk. In addition to other expenses such as cups, ice, straws, plastic bags, 1 cup of milk tea only costs 3,000 - 4,000 VND but the price is still down. Meanwhile, at most beverage and milk tea shops, they are sold at 10,000 VND/ cup, while a few have just opened for sale at a preferential price of about 6,000 - 8,000 VND/ cup.

Recently, the Hanoi Market Management Department has arrested many cases of raw materials for making milk tea of unknown origin. Even branded milk tea shops have been discovered to have ingredients of unknown origin. At the inspected milk tea shops, there were almost no certificates of food safety eligibility.

The disease is lurking

Right in the " homeland" of milk tea, Taiwan, the authorities have warned that consuming too much milk tea is not good for health. The warning was issued after a female high school student felt uncomfortable, did not have a fever, but was not hungry, always felt tired and dizzy, and easily sleepy.

With easy-to-buy ingredients, no labels, cheap cups of milk tea can also lead to the risk of obesity, nutritional deficiencies, liver and kidney damage.

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh (Institute of Biotechnology and Food, Hanoi University of Science and Technology), there is currently no scientific evidence that drinking a lot of milk tea will lead to iron deficiency or death. However, the ingredients for making milk tea need to be controlled. Any food that contains a lot of milk sugar that is consumed regularly every day is not good for overall health. Consuming foods high in milk sugar can cause you to gain weight, be obese, excess calcium can lead to kidney stones...

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