We’re not here to prove anything to you but to show you perspective. Talk Boba believes that when other articles or organizations claim that boba is unhealthy, they should provide more context. To make the tea, start by boiling 1 cup of water on high heat. Once the water is boiling, add the tea bags and let it steep for 3-5 minutes. To use the real fruit syrup in fruit tea boba, add 1-2 tablespoons (depending on desired sweetness) to the tea mixture before adding the boba and ice. Ready-Made Fruit Syrup Options for Fruit Tea Boba Powder: The powder is processed from the fresh fruit. It is typically used to ensure that the tea sold in a store is the same every time. This is worth using if you’d like predictably tasty tea. On the positive side of things, it can be wonderful for enhancing your drink with the true flavour of the fruit - sweetness, sourness, and freshness will all come through in the infusing process, leading to a wonderful lychee boba.

When you are straining the fruit, make sure to press down on the fruit to get the most intense flavour you can. Fruity Box: Strawberry, Green Apple, Passion Fruit and Pineapple (3 drinks of each). Popping Boba: Strawberry, Mango, Green Apple. Allow the brewed tea (for fruit tea kits) to cool a little before you add the flavour sachet into it. This will allow the drink to have a lower temperature before you add the 200ml of cold water and ice (and help prevent dilution)

Bubble tea kits for great boba tea at home

The ice should be added only after you have added 200ml of cold water into the drink mix. Do not add the ice directly onto the hot brewed tea mix or it will melt and dilute the drink Croissants are another perfect dessert to have with tapioca pearl tea, and they might be easier to find than scones. These will be easy to eat, like wheel cakes, as they are perfect to hold in your hand.

Tapioca starch - If you don’t have tapioca starch, no worries. You can use plenty of substitutions. You can use cornstarch, but cut the amount called for in half. If you are using 1 tablespoon of tapioca starch, use ½ tablespoon of cornstarch. You can also use cassava flour, potato starch, or all-purpose flour in place of tapioca starch. Use 1:1 ratios for those. The boba tapioca pearls themselves contain a lot of sugar, so asking for fewer tapioca pearls can help you cut down on sugar.Your typical cup of boba will consist of a tea base, milk or creamer, sweetener, and a topping of your choice. Toppings like boba pearls, popping boba pearls, lychee, jelly, pudding, etc. If you choose to opt-out from any toppings, the calories of your boba flavor will drop significantly.