What Sweeteners Are in Bubble Tea? Every TeaJoy Drink, From the Pack
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Our pack ingredient lists show sugar in every TeaJoy drink and three named sweeteners in some: acesulfame potassium and sucralose in the cans, sucralose in the Brown Sugar tea powder, and D-sorbitol, printed as a sweetener, in the instant tapioca. The Fruit Tea Kit and Matcha Kit drinks list no sweetener; they use sugars such as fructose and glucose.
TeaJoy is a UK bubble tea brand of cans, home kits and café kits, served in more than 800 cafés, restaurants and shops. Every list below is copied from our packs, home and café; the full lists are on Our Bubble Teas.
What sweeteners are in each TeaJoy drink?
Drink by drink, in the order each pack prints them:
| Drink | Part | Sugars and sweeteners, in pack order |
|---|---|---|
| Cans: Peach & Mango, Passionfruit & Strawberry | The 330ml can | apple juice concentrate, sugar; sweeteners (acesulfame potassium, sucralose) |
| Fruit Tea Kit: passion fruit tea | Passion Fruit Tea Syrup | fructose (first ingredient), sugar |
| Fruit Tea Kit: mango tea | Mango Tea Syrup | fructose (first ingredient), sugar |
| Fruit Tea Kit | Strawberry Boba, Passion Fruit Boba | fructose syrup, sugar |
| Milk Tea Kit: Classic | Classic Tea Powder | sugar |
| Milk Tea Kit: Brown Sugar | Brown Sugar Tea Powder | sugar, glucose, sucralose |
| Milk Tea Kit: both drinks | Instant Tapioca | maltose, maltitol, D-sorbitol (sweetener), molasses |
| Matcha Kit: matcha and strawberry | Matcha Tea Powder | glucose, maltodextrin, sugar |
| Matcha Kit: strawberry and mango | Strawberry Tea Syrup | fructose (first ingredient), sugar |
| Matcha Kit | Strawberry Boba, Mango Boba | fructose syrup, sugar |
| Café kit: Classic Milk Tea | Classic tea powder; instant tapioca | sugar; maltose, D-sorbitol (sweetener), molasses |
| Café fruit kits, all three | Tea syrup; popping boba | fructose, sugar; fructose syrup, sugar |
The strawberry boba's colour, lycopene, comes in a carrier that also lists maltodextrin and sucrose. And the can lists its popping boba as one ingredient, 10%, without breaking it down.
Which TeaJoy drinks contain sucralose or another sweetener?
- Sucralose: both cans, and the Brown Sugar milk tea, in its tea powder.
- Acesulfame potassium: both cans.
- D-sorbitol, printed "(sweetener)": the instant tapioca, so both Milk Tea Kit drinks and the café Classic Milk Tea kit.
- Maltitol: the instant tapioca in the home Milk Tea Kit. The café Classic Milk Tea box does not list it.
- None of these: the Fruit Tea Kit, the Matcha Kit and the three café fruit kits.
Which TeaJoy drinks use fructose?
Every fruit tea syrup, home and café, lists fructose first, ahead of the fruit juice and the sugar. Every popping boba in our kits lists water, then fructose syrup, then sugar. The can, the milk tea powders, the instant tapioca and the matcha powder name no fructose.
Questions people ask
Does bubble tea have artificial sweeteners?
Some does. In our range, the cans list two sweeteners, acesulfame potassium and sucralose, and the Brown Sugar tea powder lists sucralose. The Fruit Tea Kit, the Matcha Kit and our café fruit kits list neither.
Is Classic milk tea sweetened with sugar only?
The tea powder is. Classic Tea Powder lists sugar, instant black tea and silicon dioxide. The drink also takes a sachet of instant tapioca, which lists maltose, maltitol, D-sorbitol (sweetener) and molasses.
How much sugar is in a TeaJoy drink?
A 330ml can has about 6.6g of sugars, 2.0g per 100ml. The sugars in every kit sachet, added up per drink, are in how many calories are in bubble tea.
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