EFFECTS OF DRINKING MILK TEA IN OUR BODY

Milk tea refers to several forms of beverage found in many cultures, containing some
combination of tea and milk. Beverages vary based on the amount of each of these key
ingredients, the method of preparation, and the inclusion of other ingredients (varying
from sugar or honey to salt or cardamom).[1] Instant milk tea powder is a mass-produced
product.[2]

Variations

Local variations include:

Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea or boba milk tea, a Taiwanese tea-based drink
invented in Taichung in the 1980s

Cambric tea, a sweetened hot-milk beverage, often made with a small amount of tea[3]

Hong Kong-style milk tea, black tea sweetened with evaporated milk originating from the days
of British colonial rulein Hong Kong

Doodh pati chai, literally 'milk and tea leaves', a tea beverage drunk in Nepal, Pakistan, India,
and Bangladesh

Teh tarik, a kind of milk tea popular in Malaysia and Singapore

Suutei tsai, a salty Mongolian milk tea

Shahi haleeb, a Yemeni milk tea served after chewing qat

Masala chai, also known as masala tea, is a spiced milk tea drunk in the Indian subcontinent

Irani chai, a type of milk tea made with pure milk mixed with mawa, prepared in Iranian-style
cafes in Hyderabad, India

Thai tea, a sweet tea-based drink popular in Southeast Asia

Royal milk tea, a Japanese preparation that involves decocting tea in millk

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Do you enjoy a little milk in your tea? Then you're one of the many tea drinkers throughout the
world that love to sip on a 'milk tea.' This is a perfect way to mellow and smooth out the flavors of
tea, particularly some of the bitter notes found in black tea.

Milk tea can take on many forms. It can be as simple as a splash of milk in your Assam or English
Breakfast tea, or it can be a complex recipe like masala chai or bubble tea. The milk teas of the
world are fun to explore, so let's get started.

Milk Tea

Milk tea is, quite simply, tea with milk added. This creates a smoother flavor and slightly sweetens
the tea. It's a popular way to serve tea in many parts of the world and it is an easy way to dress
up your average cup of tea.
There are many regions in the world where milk tea is the default type of tea. This is most
apparent in certain parts of India where 'tea' usually refers to milk tea. To ask for tea without milk,
request a 'black tea' or simply 'tea without.'

Milk tea is also commonly consumed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Sri Lanka, and
Hong Kong.

There are many variations on milk tea, including:

Cream Tea - Prepared with heavy cream, this tea is commonly found in East Friesland, Germany.
It is often called 'East Friesian Tea.'

Hong Kong Milk Tea - Also called Pantyhose Milk Tea, this is the most popular version of tea
prepared with evaporated milk.

Tea Latte - A very popular tea drink found in North America, parts of Europe, and beyond.

Cow, Buffalo, or Yak Milk - Made by boiling tea with the animal's milk. This drink is found in many
parts of India and a few surrounding countries.

Why Add Milk to Your Tea?

Milk tea is usually prepared with strong black tea. The addition of milk results in a less astringent,
less bitter flavor. Not only does milk cover up the flavor of the tea, but it also binds to some of the
bitter chemical compounds found in tea.

Some of these bitter compounds are very beneficial to health. Due to this, if you're drinking tea
for health reasons, tea without milk is a better choice.

Some teas, such as Assam teas from India, are almost always served with milk to reduce the
bitterness. Assam milk tea also makes a regular appearance as British afternoon teas.

Many milk teas do quite well with a dairy substitute. If you like, use soy, almond, or rice milk.
Coconut milk is not quite as versatile, but you can certainly develop a taste for it with the right
tea.

How Much Milk Should You Add?

There is really no set guidelines or suggestions about how much milk you should add to any
particular tea. It depends, more than anything, on your personal taste and the type of tea you
brew. Most tea should not require a lot of milk.

In general, begin with a splash or a tablespoon of milk. Stir this in and taste your tea. If needed,
add another tablespoon until it is to your taste.

Some milk tea recipes do use quite a bit of milk. For instance, a homemade masala chai requires
equal parts of milk and water.

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If you live on planet Earth like I do, you’ve no doubt noticed that the tea industry has been
exploding in recent years. Local grocers have gone from carrying nothing more than boxes of
iced tea blends to stocking gourmet loose leaf in the aisles and multiple varieties of tea-based
RTDs in the refrigerated section. But what about your tea shop? What has changed?
While the selection of loose leaf and bagged teas has grown exponentially, the apprehension
that surrounds many of these specialty items still persists with the general consumer. The mention
of the words “tea shop” still conjures up images of high tea or complicated rituals with hot tea of
some sort at the center of the experience. And this is not too far from the truth. What many
traditional tea shop owners will admit, too, is that serving tea alone is not enough to survive.
Food, then, often enters the picture and can take the focus away from the tea, which is where
our true passion lies. It can be very frustrating at times to find a way to make tea your focus while
still hitting decent margins and attracting trendy consumers.

Let’s talk about milk tea. Milk tea, and its family of bubble teas, has been around for decades in
various forms. The most popular style of milk tea originated in Taiwan back in the 1980s and is a
simple blend of black tea, creamer and sugar. Since then, however, this once simple drink has
turned into a revolutionary tea canvas that has allowed tea lovers to pair their favorite teas with
a myriad of creamers, flavors and sweeteners. But that is not even the best part. It’s also
incredibly popular and provides phenomenal profit margins for tea retailers.

The average bubble tea shop will sell between 150 and 300 drinks per day, according to some
industry reports. The drink attracts many different demographics and allows tea shop owners to
make tea their focus once again. I’ve often been heard calling milk tea a “gateway tea.” It’s an
easy way to introduce customers to the world of specialty teas by way of a popular, fun and
intriguing beverage thath can be served hot or iced.

Once customers get hooked on one style of milk tea, you can begin to introduce them to other
styles, which might open them up to different tea bases, too. So, expand your menu to include
milk teas. They’re a great addition to any tea shop as a way to better use existing stock, attract
new customers and increase profits.

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Drinking tea is a Taiwanese pastime that verges on obsession. For breakfast, lunch, and dinner
there’s a variety of tea to perfectly complement any food and suit any palate. But when it
comes to an afternoon drink or something to sip on while wandering through the local night
market, nothing beats a pearl milk tea, Taiwan’s (unofficial) official drink.

What is pearl milk tea?

While it might sound like a rather odd shade of paint suitable for dental surgery waiting rooms,
it’s actually an incredibly tasty drink that is more like a snack than a beverage. And why is that?
Well, that would have something to do with the tapioca balls floating around in the bottom of
the cup.

Served with an oversized straw, this drink can be any variety of tea, at any temperature. The only
prerequisite is that vendors must pack the bottom half of the cup with the jelly-like pearls, or
what many call bubbles.

Where did it come from?

Although there are several tea vendors that claim to have been the first to create this now
world-famous drink, the most credible is Liu Han-Chieh of Chun Shui Tang Teahouse in Taichung.
In the early 80s, he noted that Japanese people enjoyed drinking cold coffee and so he tried
out the idea with tea. His cold teas were so popular that his business expanded and he opened
several new branches throughout the city.

The bubbles or pearls arrived on the scene in 1988 when during a meeting Liu poured some
tapioca balls into his iced teas. Everyone loved it, and so the well-loved drink was born.

Another popular theory is that Tu Tsong-he of the Hanlin Teahouse invented the drink on a whim.
He used white tapioca balls which resembled pearls which is allegedly where the name
originated.

Wherever it started, there’s no doubt that it took the Taiwanese tea industry by storm and forced
many traditional vendors to adapt their menus to include this new and popular drink.

Chun Shui Tang Teahouse, No. 9號, Dadun 19th Street, West District, Taichung City, Taiwan 403

The different types

Most shops sell a straightforward green or black tea with milk and perhaps some sweetener
added. But while this was and still is a popular choice, the Taiwanese sense of culinary
adventure always desires something new.

These days, teashops will offer a wide variety of teas and flavors to entice their adventurous
clientele. Common flavors include strawberry, honeydew melon, apple, passion fruit, mango,
and many many more.

For those that aren’t too keen on tea, there are coffee versions of the drink while those that are
lactose intolerant can try one of the many milk free variants.

The obsession

It’s not quite clear why this particular drink took root while so many other food and drink fads
faded into obscurity. Perhaps it’s the fact that people here drink tea like other places drink water
or maybe it’s because it’s an ideal snack/drink combo for people on the go.

The most likely reason though, is that it’s not just one drink but a thousand reinventions of the
original. Yes, we still call it pearl milk tea but with so many variations found in so many tea shops
throughout Taiwan, often the only thing they have in common is the pearls, and even those can
be flavored.

Taiwan has always been a place of innovation, but it’s still incredible that such a simple thing as
a cup of tea can have so many new leases of life. Next time you’re in Taiwan, make the local
pearl milk tea shop your first port of call.

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Tea is good for the heart - but adding milk to it wipes out the benefits, say researchers

Tea drinkers enjoy some protection against heart disease. But the benefits are completely wiped
out if, like most of the British population, they add milk, researchers reveal today.

Tea has long been thought to have health benefits for the heart and in the prevention of
cancer. But researchers from Germany, writing in the European Heart Journal, suggest that their
findings about milk ought to lead to an urgent reassessment of the effect of tea on cancer
prevention.
"Since milk appears to modify the biological activities of tea ingredients, it is likely that the anti-
tumour effects of tea could be affected as well," said one of the authors, Verena Stangl,
professor of cardiology at the Charité hospital, Berlin.

"It is essential that we re-examine the association between tea consumption and cancer
protection to see if that is the case."

The team suggests that tea drinkers who usually add milk should drink it black for some of the
time. Flavonoids in tea, called catechins, are thought to be responsible for its beneficial effects
on the heart. The study found that a group of proteins in milk, called caseins, interacted with the
tea to reduce the concentration of catechins.

The researchers measured the effects of drinking black tea, tea with milk and plain hot water on
16 women volunteers. Regular tests on the brachial artery of the forearm for two hours after
drinking showed that black tea promoted dilation of the blood vessels. "We found that ... the
addition of milk completely prevents the biological effect," said the lead author, Mario Lorenz, a
molecular biologist.

Further tests in rats produced the same results. It could explain why Britain, a nation of tea
drinkers, does not appear to enjoy protection from high rates of heart disease, say the authors.

"The well-established benefits of tea have been described in many studies," said Prof Stangl.

"Our results thus provide a possible explanation for the lack of beneficial effects of tea on the risk
of heart disease in the UK, a country where milk is usually added."

June Davison, cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said the study highlighted the
importance of looking at interactions between foods, but added that having a cup of tea could
be helpful if it allowed people to relax.

"Leaving milk out of your tea is far less likely to help protect your heart health than other
measures, such as taking regular exercise, avoiding smoking and eating a healthy balanced
diet," she said.

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Side Effects Of Tea: Are you one of them who cannot live without tea? Many of us have this
addiction to tea. Some of us, even drink more than 6-8 cups of tea in a day. But, have you ever
thought how harmful multiple cups of tea for your health in a day? Adding milk to your tea is
even worse for your health. Mixing tea and milk together can affect badly if you consume it
excessively. Thus, here we are going to talk about the side effects of milk tea. Hope this makes
you realise the right consumption of tea and to have a healthy life. (Also Read: Benefits of Tea:
What are the different types of tea and their benefits)

What are the various side effects of milk tea?

Bloating

Nutrient Deficiencies

Promotes anxiety, stress etc.

Provokes addiction

Dehydration
Bloating:
When you drink too much of milk tea, you realise your stomach is bloating. Tea has a lot of
caffeine in it which is the reason for your bloating. Adding milk to it can cause bloating more as
milk and caffeine promote gas formation. (Also Read: What Are The Ways You Can Beat
Bloating)

Promotes anxiety, stress etc:

=Tea has caffeine which promotes mental illness.

Milk tea can be bad for our health as it not just shows issues in our physical health but disrupts
mental wellness too. It promotes anxiety, stress, restlessness, lack of sleep etc. Caffeine is famous
for these problems and this is the most common side effects of tea.

Nutrient Deficiencies:
If you consume tea excessively, you may notice you are suffering from the side effects of tea
which include vital nutrient deficiencies. Brewing tea and milk together can hinder the
absorption of essential nutrients in your body. You may notice you are having iron, zinc
deficiencies.

Provokes addiction:

Tea makes you addicted to it.

The worst side effect of milk tea is, it promotes addiction. Caffeine is an addictive compound.
So, if you regularly drink tea at one time, you will feel uncomfortable without the cup of tea at
the same time. So, this, makes you consume tea more. This is nothing but mere addiction for
tea.

Dehydration:
Milk tea can promote dehydration. You may think that tea can’t promote dehydration as it is a
liquid beverage. As we said that tea has caffeine, which is extremely bad for the hydration of
the body. But if you consume a moderate amount of milk tea, it can not harm you.

Nutrition can be a tricky thing – we are always looking for the next big beneficial super food or
drink. One of the most popular health drinks in the world today is tea, because it has numerous
benefits for the body when consumed in regulated quantities. It is rich in anti-inflammatory
properties, has elements that help you relax and overall is full of rich antioxidants and blood
purifying agents.

When you drink too much tea, however, it can become very dangerous. It can have major
negative effects on the body, especially when you consume it with milk and sugar.

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How Milk Tea Can Be Harmful For your Health

Milk tea is considered a staple in countries like India, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Cambodia. It has
numerous health benefits like water-based teas, but when over-consumed, this type of tea can
be extremely bad for you. Here are six ways milk tea can harm your health.

1. Insomnia
Like in coffee, tea, specifically black tea, which is what is used to brew milk tea is rich in caffeine.
When your body is overloaded with caffeine, especially in the second half of the day, it can
cause sleep disorders like insomnia. While small quantities will not do this, drinking an excess of
more than two cups a day can cause major sleep issues. This is one of the most common side
effects of tea with milk and sugar.

2. Anxiety

While some teas like chamomile are known for their relaxing properties, sometimes the side
effects of drinking too much milk tea can also be anxiety. This is because tea can activate the
brain cells to calm you down but when you push it and drink too much, it can create an
imbalance in brain chemicals which leads to anxiety.

While small quantities do help you relax, no matter the tea, anxiety becomes a risk if you
consume more than 150 ml of tea per day.

3. Pimples

One of the most visible milk tea side effects for the skin is the appearance of pimples – these zits
begin to manifest all over your body. In small quantities, tea can help detoxify your body, but
excess tea generates extreme heat and creates an imbalance in the body chemicals that result
in an outbreak of pimples. The most affected areas for an outbreak of pimples caused by over-
consumption of tea include the face, neck, and chest.

4. Constipation

Tea has caffeine and another chemical called theophylline – the former is great for your
excretory system and can help improve motion flow. The latter is healthy for detoxifying your
body, calming your mind and muscles and improving blood flow. However, when you consume
too much tea, theophylline can cause extreme constipation as it dries your body and
dehydrates you.

5. Blood Pressure Imbalance

One of the most dangerous side effects of drinking too much tea is that it causes an imbalance
in your blood pressure. In small amounts, it can help improve circulation, maintain heart health,
brain and nerve functions and help improve your immune system. But when you over-consume
the drink, it increases your heart rate, leading to high blood pressure; or slows it down too much
due to its relaxing properties, which lowers your blood pressure too much. This can be very bad
for your body.

6. Possibilities of Miscarriage

Tea is great for the body due to properties that help in relaxing the muscles, calming the mind,
increasing blood flow and detoxifying the body. When you’re pregnant, however, relaxing your
muscles too much or having too many detoxifying elements in the body or irregular blood flow
can lead to miscarriages – this is why pregnant women are asked to monitor their tea intake very
carefully.

FAQs
Here are some answers to frequently asked questions about the consumption of milk tea.

1. Is It Ok to Drink Milk Tea Daily?

Yes, in regulated, controlled amounts, drinking tea is considered extremely healthy for your
body. However, make sure you drink the recommended amount of tea for your body
requirements after consulting a doctor.

2. Can I Consider Milk Tea As Water Intake?

Yes and no. While tea does help hydrate your body to a very small level, it cannot replace your
regular water intake. Tea shouldn’t replace water in your diet, but it acts as a great drink to
supplement your daily hydration schedule.

Remember that, while planning a diet with your nutritionist and doctor, ask them about what
quantities of tea and what types of tea can help your body. Brew limited quantities and always
ensure you follow the advice of your medical professional when consuming tea.

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There are many health benefits of milk tea. This benefit produced by the combination of milk
and tea. A milk and tea have some health benefit in their self, and when this two beverages are
mixed, it will gives health benefits. The health benefit that gives by this beverage is keeping our
immune. Immune is the most important thing inside the body because has function to guard our
healthy.

Milk has contains many chemical composition that needed by body. A milk can stimulates child
growth, because it contains some nutrition that body’s child need. Milk will keeps the bone and
brain to grow. In other side, milk has good effect to delay a hunger while changing fat into an
energy. The most import resulted from milk is strengthen teeth and bone, especially in growing
child.

A tea contains chemical compound that body need. Every chemical compound has function
to our body. A chemical compound like antioxidant is the most important nutrition to our body.
This compound can protect us from free radical that will destroy our immune. Tea also have a
good effect on our mind because it can stimulate and relaxing mind. Consume a tea will also
resulted skin health and avoid stroke.

Some milk compounds

Calcium. The first compound of milk is calcium. Calcium is one of element that needed by body,
especially for a growing child. That is why, a baby or a child should drink a milk, because the
calcium in the milk worked for their bone and teeth growing. But drinking of milk is not only for a
baby or child. Everybody should to drinking a glass of milk regularly, it will fills a calcium needed
in our body, and make our body health.

Carbohydrate. Drinking a glass of milk will give the energy for a body, because the other
compound in the milk is carbohydrate. To do the activities we need the energy, and we can
find it in a glass of milk.

Mineral. Mineral is also one of important element that needed by body because mineral have
many roles in the body. In the glass of milk can give enough of mineral for health body.

The type of milk

Human milk. The first milk we know after we born is from our mother. Human, as mammal, is
extracting milk during pregnancy. The early milk from mammals is called colostrums. It has
important role in our childhood.

Vegetable milk. This is the milk that produced by an essence of any seed, like soy etc. This kind of
milk has the benefit from the other type of milk because contain non-fatty acid. Milk from
vegetables can be found from soya. Soya can be processed to get it juice then process to be
soy milk. Others are from rice. When rice is medium cook, it still contains a little water colored like
milk. It can be used as “pseudo” milk.

Animal milk. Some animal also produces a milk, such as cow and goat. The fat molecules from
goat is smaller than a fat molecules from cow milk. That is why goat milk is better than cow milk
to digest. Goat milk also contains less lactose (milk sugar), which gives benefit to our body to
break down the lactose. However, for people with allergic, have to consult with the doctor first
about consuming goat or cow milk.

Health benefits of milk

Strength your body. There are many components of milk. The first one of health benefit of milk is
make our body strength. The calcium of milk especially can make our bone strength, so we can
do many activities.

Producing energy. Drinking the glass of milk can produce the energy. The carbohydrate and the
other elements of milk beside make strength our body also produce the energy, so we can do
anything after drink the glass of milk.

Skin care. For a long time, milk believed can make our skin good and bright. So, the health
benefits of milk is not only for body inside but for body outside like skin.

Less stress. Sometimes we got stress from many things. Drinking the glass of milk before we go to
bed can, it makes a solution to less stress. Milk also can be used to decrease stress.

Some tea compounds

Antioxidant. There are many components of tea that can give health benefits for our body. The
first component is antioxidant. The antioxidant is very good for health body. It can prevent the
body cells damage and also can prevent aging early. Antioxidant has role as detoxify agent. It
detoxify cell-damaging chemical messenger in our body.

Tannin. Tannin is one of component tea that make bitter taste. However, these same chemicals
can also have negative impacts on health. Tannins are also has responsibility for inhibiting for
iron absorption.

Flavonoid. Tea has flavonoid which use as aging delay agent.

Carotenoid. Besides that, tea also has carotenoid which use as aging delay agent.

Catechin. Tea contains catechins which can avoid heart disease.

Amino acid. Rich amino acids are contained in tea totaling up to over 25 types. They can play
as supplement that required by human body.

The type of tea

Green tea. First and the most popular is green tea. This type of tea is the most popular in China
and Japan. Green tea also believed as the most have health benefits for body, especially
because green tea can fight cancer.

Black tea. The other type of tea is black tea. This kind of tea is growth in China. This tea is made
by fermented tea leaves. It gives darker tea leaves result and growth into black tea. As it dark
color, black tea contains higher caffeine then other type.

White tea. The next type is white tea. This kind of tea is just drying tea without fermentation
process. It has minimally processed. White tea does not require shaking, rolling or panning. The
process is only about fresh tea leaves then withering and last is drying by air. That simple process
then produces white tea. White tea has no caffeine like the other tea and contains the most
antioxidant.

Oolong tea. Other tea is Oolong tea. As same as black tea, Oolong tea also has fermented
process. However, Oolong tea is only partially fermented. As it fermented process, Oolong tea
contains caffeine in the inside. Caffeine works by stimulate the main nervous system, heart, and
muscle.

Puer tea. One of the other tea types is Puer tea. Puer tea (Pu-erh tea) is a variety of fermented
and aged dark tea. This kind of tea is well known in Yaman, China. Puer tea is post fermented
process. This means that Puer tea processing includes both fermentation and then prolonged
storage or let be aging. Puer tea contains antioxidant and caffein. It can be used for reducing
high cholesterol.

Health benefits of tea

Reducing weight. Consume a pot of tea without adding sugar have benefit to reduce weight. It
will be better if drinking a tea before eat, because the component essence of tea will worked
when we eat nothing.

Vanishing bad breath. Tea also has benefit to vanishing bad breath.

Reducing cholesterol. Besides reducing weight, a tea compound of polyphenol. That is one of
component of tea that can reduce cholesterol in the body.

Reducing fever. When we get a fever, we should take a rest for a moment. Besides that, there is
a simple solution to reduce fever. Drinking a pot of tea every a half hour can reduce fever.

Mood booster. There is one of a component of tea that will make good mood. The component
of black tea or green tea is l-theanine. That component is very good to be a mood booster.

Avoiding stroke. Drinking a pot of tea regularly or 3 – 4 times of day can help to avoid stroke.

Relaxing body. The last health benefits of tea is to relaxing body. After we drink a pot of tea, our
body can relax, caused by the component of tea is very good.

5 Main Health benefits of milk tea Summaries

Refresh the body. Caffeine compounds can be used to refresh body.

Anti-inflammatory. Milk tea usages are as anti-inflammatory agent. This comes from antioxidant
in tea compound.
Weight loss. Milk tea can also use as fatten and weight loss agent. It makes fatten by its fat
compound in milk. Otherwise, it can also be used as dietary agent by its polyphenol and
caffeine from tea. Consult with the doctor to get the benefits you need. When you make this
drink, just get little milk than your tea, because more milk in your drink it’s mean more fat.

Resisting stress. The antioxidant has a function resisting stress.

Normalize the blood flow. Milk tea also uses for normalize the blood flow.

How to make a milk tea

First thing you have to do is make a cup of milk and a cup of tea. Then, make a compare
amount of those. After you compare those, then mix it become one. Last thing, serve it as you
want, hot or iced.

When the right time to drink of milk tea?

This combination of milk tea can be enjoyed anytime. It can serve hot in the morning side your
breakfast. It gives the relaxation to your body in the morning. You can also enjoy it at afternoon
with your lunch. Milk tea can also become your friend before bed time. It relaxation sensation
helps you to have sleep well. It releases your tough routines all day long. It gives you relaxation
after sleeping at night.

People who avoided to drink a milk tea

Anemia. They who have anemia are not recommended to consume milk tea. It can cause low
blood flow. You have to avoid consuming milk tea continuous if you are with diabetic and
gallbladder. It does not help you. Also, it is not recommended for they are with obesity.

Pregnancy. Otherwise milk tea has several benefits, it is not recommended for they who have
some cases. It is not recommended for pregnancy. For pregnancy women, daily consume milk
tea may caused an effects to the baby.

Enlarged prostate. It also not recommended for people with prostate diseases. It can cause
enlarged prostate disease by consuming milk tea daily.

Gallbladder

The disadvantages of milk tea

Increases weight. Milk tea can increase weight because it contains fat from the milk. More, it
and iron absorption. Iron absorption

Anemia. Nevertheless, milk tea causes anemia because it can make low blood flow.

Irritate the womb. Drinking milk tea may irritated womb when it continuously consuming.

Headache. Consuming it continuously can affect headache and nausea

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Milk tea has been a trend these recent years, and it's only gaining popularity by the minute. With
new flavors and shops popping up left and right, it's no surprise that many have developed an
obsession with the fun, sugary drink.

But an episode in Reel Time shows that yes, there is such a thing as too much milk tea.
Xy-Zha Cabanlong knows first hand how painful it could be when she passes her limit.

Cabanlong, who has had acid reflux since 2006, used to be obsessed with milk tea when it first
surfaced in the Philippine market.

She said she used to have one cup every day the whole week.

"Na-entice ako sa milk tea kasi masarap naman talaga, although it triggers my acid reflux," she
said.

Acid reflux — the backward flow of stomach acid into the esophagus — for her is usually
tolerable. She believes she has a high pain threshold that allows her ignore her acid reflux when
it is triggered.

But in February, she had to go to the hospital due to a bad attack.

"Around February 29, it's the first time that I've experienced that. Hindi na ko makapagsalita, at
the same time hindi na ko makahinga kasi parang may nakapatong na hollowblock sa dibdib
ko," she recalled.

In the emergency room, she couldn't talk because she had no voice. Later, they told her she
had laryngitis due to acid reflux.

A doctor told her that she had to lessen her intake of milk tea, and that if possible, just avoid it
completely.

"Yung sinabi ng doctors na avoid oily foods, avoid sour foods, spicy foods, OK lang sa 'kin. The
moment that they said avoid chocolate, avoid milk tea, oh it's going to be a challenge," she
said.

Still, Cabanlong heeded the advice and lessened her intake of milk tea. She said she knows the
symptoms of an incoming attack and controls her cravings for sweets and other foods that
would trigger her acid reflux.

"Mainit at the same time, yung parang hindi mo alam kung sinuntok ka ba paulit-ulit. Pag ganun
na yung nararamdaman ko, OK I have to stop," she said.

Internist Gherald Belandres said that the caffeine in milk tea is what aggravates the
overproduction of acid.

"Usually ang nakakapag-trigger ng acid reflux ay basically yun yung caffeine content ng isang
milk tea, na pwedeng mag-aggravate ng risk na pwedeng magkaroon ng overproduction of
acid pa rin na pwedeng magcause ng gastritis o kaya reflux," he said.

If that sounds painful, it would actually have been worse — repeated backward flow of acid
can lead to ulcers, or erosion in the stomach's walls.

For diabetics, there's a whole other set of risks involved in drinking large amounts of milk tea.

Belandres said that they might lose consciousness, and that wounds they sustain may not heal.

Dietician Allan Jose said that milk tea has high levels of sugar, even if customers can choose the
sugar percentage.

The so-called sugar percentage only dictates how much sugar they add.
"Pag sinabi naman natin na zero percent sugar or ten percent sugar, yung ilalagay lang nila.
Pero halos lahat ng ginagamit na ingredients sa milk tea, merong sweetener, kagaya ng sago,
kagaya nung flavoring, kagay nung dairy mismo, yung milk, yung creamer, may sugar ring
kasama yun," he said.

"Zero percent yung dinagdag nila pero di pupwede na walang sugar talaga yun," he added.

Jose advised to take things in moderation — when it comes to milk tea, this means one serving a
week.

"Di naman natin sinasabi na wag uminom yan, o masamang uminom niyan, pag nasobrahan
ng kahit ano, kahit ng gulay pag masobrahan masama sa katawan. Again, in moderation, one
serving lang per week," he said.

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Milk in Your Tea? Not a Good Idea

If you like tea, you probably drink it for pleasure, not for its health benefits. More than two billion
people in the world drink tea. Many acquired a habit to add a bit of milk to their regular cup of
tea. It is a matter of taste, but scientists now say that that drop of milk can completely negate all
the benefits tea can have on our health. How is that possible?

What is in tea?

While many people drink tea because it is pleasant, soothing drink, tea has many health
benefits, which were known to ancient cultures like Chinese and Indians.

Tea has many active ingredients that affect our health. It is particularly rich in antioxidants and
vitamins. It is found to improve our immune system, to control blood sugar levels, reduce
damage to cells and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

But, if you add milk to your tea, its beneficial effects on your vascular system go away.

How milk affects tea?

In a small study conducted on 16 healthy women, scientists compared the effects of tea on their
vascular system, with tea, water and tea with milk. They found that tea relaxes blood
vessels (improves flow-mediated dilation), but tea with milk does not.

Researchers believe that the most likely explanation is that the caseins, proteins found in milk,
form complexes with catechins in tea, its most important flavonoids.

Interestingly, they found that proteins in soy milk have the same effect.

What can we do?

Thinks should not be as bad as scientists found, or those two billions of tea drinkers would have
noticed by now. Strong black tea with milk and sugar is universal cure for all problems among
English. Indians sell very strong tea with condensed milk on street corners, as a ” ˜pick-me-up.” •
But, if you do not want to spoil the benefits of your tea, try drinking it with honey and lemon, like
Russians and other Slavic peoples. Or drink green tea neat, with nothing added, like so many
Chinese and Japanese.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to follow all scientific advice when it comes to food and
health. Sometimes, we just have to go with our instincts. If you find a cup of tea with a few drops
of milk soothing and relaxing, it will probably offer you more benefits than those few drops of milk
will take away.

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Side Effects Of Drinking Milk Tea:- Friends, Today, in this article, I’ll tell you how much harm you
are doing to your life by drinking tea. Let’s talk about the tea- drinking losses. Tea wasn’t in our
culture 200 years ago.

British came and inspired our culture for this tea. Go anywhere today, you’ll be given tea first as
a guest. Today, however, I’ll tell you what damage we cause by only drinking two cups of tea.
Let’s talk about Side Effects Of Drinking Milk Tea.

Side Effects Of Drinking Milk Tea

Anemia:- Tea has tannic acid. After eating the food, you have the iron elements that your body
needs to receive from your diet. The tannic acid binds the iron with itself. That is if you drink tea
after eating, then iron deficiency will occur in your body and you are inviting anemia. This is the
main one comes under Side Effects Of Drinking Milk Tea

Insomnia:- If you drink four or five cups of tea a day, then you should understand that you are
inviting the sleeplessness disease, because insomnia has been a big reason.

Constipation:- In the morning, in the empty stomach a lot of people are used to drink tea. You
give it a name called “Bad Tea”. But drinking tea in the empty stomach increases acidity. As well
as closes the secretion process of gastric juices you get in your stomach, which are helpful in
digestion. Obviously, there will be a gas formation takes place in your stomach. Your digestive
system will not function properly.

Poisonous Effects:- Next side effect is, if we go out anywhere, we take tea. But if you noticed
ever, then they do not remove old leaves and are engaged in a single vessel. And they put new
leaves in those poisonous, very harmful old leaves. So if drinking tea is such a necessity, then
avoid the outside or roadside tea. Drink tea at home but remember not to drink more than a
cup in a day.

Cholesterol:- Now let’s go towards the next loss. We drink milk tea and sugar is taken in very
good quantity. You have consumed at least 40 to 50 calories in a teacup. And if we drink 4-5
teacups in a day, which can be seen in people. So understand that 250-300 calories have been
consumed by your body. With this, your obesity will continue to grow and your fat will continue
to increase. So, friends, I would say, leave tea and if it is so important then drink only a cup of tea
in the day.

Low Bone Density:- Also, the New England Journal of Medicine study has said that drinking too
much tea causes a disease called osteofluorosis. Because excessive consumption of tea
increases “daily fluoride consumption” in our body. And this fluoride weakens our bones.

High Blood Pressure:- Tea is high in caffeine and it is more than coffee. This high caffeine tea
increases blood pressure, so if your blood pressure is normal, it will become high and the person
with high blood pressure should not drink tea at all.

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Health benefits of tea are as follows:

It’s best known for providing one with the best benefits for the proper functioning as ab anti-
oxidants.

Promotes healthy bones.

Prevents one from various types of cancer.

Can be known as the best remedy for managing stress.

Promotes mental performance and health.

Can be best known for providing one with the healthy skin and younger look.

Can help in weight management.

Drinking green tea can actually help in controlling diabetes.

Can help in removing harmful free radicals.

It functions as an Anti-oxidant