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my fam loves boba w zero sugar added... all the places we go to here in san diego let you adjust (e.g. omomo [0]). basically a fresh milky fruit or avocado smoo
by rgbrgb 2y ago
my fam loves boba w zero sugar added... all the places we go to here in san diego let you adjust (e.g. omomo [0]). basically a fresh milky fruit or avocado smoothie with chewy tapioca pearls. it's a fun treat that seemed a lot healthier than an ice cream or something. these findings make me sad :-|
[0]: https://www.omomoteashoppe.com https://www.omomoteashoppe.com
- jeffbee 2y agoIce cream strikes me as a lot healthier than boiled play-doh.
- tyre 2y agoYou seem to have a weirdly strong hatred for boba. It’s okay if something isn’t for you!
- rtpg 2y agoIs this based off the tapioca balls? I haven’t considered the health of the balls, but I could see it as being the same as swallowing a bunch of gum.
- Tagbert 2y agoThey are not “gum”. They are mainly starch. They have no nutritional benefit but a do convert a big load of sugars in your blood.
- PittleyDunkin 2y ago> They have no nutritional benefit but a do convert a big load of sugars in your blood. That is, like, the definition of nutritional benefit.
- Tagbert 2y agoIt is a very low grade nutrition that produces a lot of unhealthy results. Not really a benefit.
- jorvi 2y agoBen & Jerry’s Cookie Dough has ~25g sugar per 100g. Boba has ~14g per 100g, depending on the type. Coca Cola has ~11g sugar per 100g. In other words, ice cream has 1.8x more sugar content than boba and 2.3x more sugar content of Coca Cola. If you’re concerned about the tapioca, that’s literally just starch. You know what else contains starch? Potatoes and rice.
- jeffbee 2y ago> Ben & Jerry’s Cookie Dough has ~25g sugar per 100g. Boba has ~14g per 100g, depending on the type. Nothing at Boba Guys weighs 100g. That's the difference! 100g really is a typical cup of gelato or ice cream.
- Aurornis 2y ago> In other words, ice cream has 1.8x more sugar content than boba and 2.3x more sugar content of Coca Cola. Most Boba Tea cups I’ve seen are far bigger than the typical ice cream. You can’t use per-100gm doses this way. You have to look at sugar in the product as ordered. People don’t order and eat their food in neat 100gm increments.
- hombre_fatal 2y agoHow much people happen to eat in one sitting is nice bonus info, but it doesn't make sense to complain that the data has been normalized into density figures. Either way, a little 16oz carton of Ben and Jerry's that people smash in one sitting is 1200 calories. So it's still more sugar- and calorie-dense than boba tea. I don't really see the point in bickering over calorie-dense junk foods though. Both of them are displacing healthier foods in your diet that you could've eaten instead. Neither should account for more than a small fraction of your calorie intake.
- jorvi 2y agoCompanies vastly differ in serving amounts and some have multiple serve sizes. What did you expect me to do, bash out a 5x10 multi-company matrix so you can compare perfectly across servings?
- sbierwagen 2y agoIt's funny that you hold up ice cream as a paradigmatically unhealthy food, when most of the studies point in the opposite direction: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cream-bad-for-you-health-study/673487/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cre... The state of nutrition science is so bad that I wouldn't believe most any study, though.