Calories in Bubble Tea?



Ever wonder how people end up at Cooking with Amy? I do, so I take a look at the referring pages, as they are known. Plenty of times readers find my site when searching for information on the internet. Just this week searches for "cooking turkey legs", "pupusa facts", "fried pork chops" and "pumpkin cake recipes" led people to my site.



A common search is for "hors d'oeuvres recipes", with hors d'oeuvres usually misspelled. Because I posted something about all the funny misspellings of the word, my site invariably turns up.



By far the most common search phrase is "how many calories in bubble tea?" "how many carbs in bubble tea?" "is bubble tea fattening?" or some variation on this theme. It turns out that this is the most popular question that leads people to my site. Why they end up referred here, I don't know, but after a year of seeing this question I decided it was time to find an answer to their questions.



Using the key word "nutrition" and bubble tea, I found a site dedicated to Singapore Food Facts. It is a few years out of date, and I am just assuming that Singaporean bubble tea is the same as everyone else's bubble tea, but here is the answer to that burning question.



According to Singapore Food Facts, Ministry of Health, 1999



Plain bubble tea has

160 calories

.4 grams protein

6 grams of fat

27 grams of carbohydrates

0 fiber or cholesterol

156 milligrams of calcium



Bubble tea with milk has

132 calories

14.4 grams of fat

24.4 grams of carbohydrates

no fiber or cholesterol

204 milligrams of calcium



Bubble tea with milk and tapioca pearls has

340 calories

13.6 grams of fat

52.7 grams of carbohydrates

1.7 grams of dietary fiber

no cholesterol

217 milligrams of calcium



I hope whoever is dying to know this can sleep better now, I know I can.



For more about this wacky drink (purportedly named after big breasts!) you can read my earlier post about it here

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