Headline of the day
“Australian scientists have developed a healthier alternative for bubble tea”.
I suspect they mean “to” bubble tea, but got grammatically confused because they’re just swapping out one ingredient.
Said scientists are from the “Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre” (sic).
They want to replace sucrose or glucose in bubble tea with beta-glucan as derived from oats. Beta-glucan is an oligomer of glucose, which is why it is vaguely sweet to the taste.
But it doesn’t pass the 6 year old test. Hence the focus on bubble tea I guess; a drink that has relatively low sweetness.
Oh and the beta glucan is to be blended into the tapioca as used to make the bubbles, thereby simply adding cost for no perceived gain as measured by the teenager girls that drink this shit.
They aren’t drinking it for the health benefits.
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