ZestyQuokka
ZestyQuokka

Sugar alternatives in milk tea?

I'm addicted to having tea everyday to the point I get withdrawal symptoms if I miss

Non sweet tea irks me, but processed sugar is not good

Can you suggest alternatives? "Healthy"

Google suggested honey šŸ˜’ dumb Also me don't like cinnamon, so that option gone

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MagicalBagel
MagicalBagel

Sugarfree or sugarlite

ZestyQuokka
ZestyQuokka
Hinge21mo

That's very unhealthy

MagicalBagel
MagicalBagel

How so?

PeppyMarshmallow
PeppyMarshmallow

Use gudd (jaggery) or brown sugar

ZestyQuokka
ZestyQuokka
Hinge21mo

Jaggery tea tastes 🤮

BubblyNarwhal
BubblyNarwhal

What? You can't be serious.

PrancingDonut
PrancingDonut

The amount of sugar you take in tea is not a lot. Unless you drink 5-6 cups of tea a day.
And no sugar is not bad. It’s just sucrose man. Please don’t buy into these new age fad pseudo science shit that ill-literate and exploitative influencers peddle.

ZestyQuokka
ZestyQuokka
Hinge21mo

🄲 I have reduced it to one in morning. It's more like medicine now than tea tea

PrancingDonut
PrancingDonut

Enjoy it. Please. Life has too few good things as it is

MagicalQuokka
MagicalQuokka

Try khand? It is less processed AFAIK

ZestyQuokka
ZestyQuokka
Hinge21mo

Wasn't aware, will check Thanks

WobblyMuffin
WobblyMuffin

Desi khand , brown sugar

ZoomyMuffin
ZoomyMuffin

Drink tea without sugar. And drink it often, like 3-6 times daily as per your routine intake. After a couple of weeks, it would get normal. I am a tea addict and drink tea atleast 4 times during workdays.

Once you cut sugar out from tea, you will start enjoying flavour of tea to the fullest. I rotate between masala, ginger, pepper, elaichi, clove, lemongrass. Ditto for coffee.

JumpyPretzel
JumpyPretzel

Me too!! Tea without sugar tastes like real tea, the ginger, the elaichi, the tea’s taste, all those tastes real good. I have reduced sugar to almost 80%, from last 1+ year. My 100 gm of sugar has been there for 3+ months now. 500 gms sugar bought in 2022 had lasted 1 whole year. I do take sugar with Tea, but I take just a bit for taste, like less than a quarter spoon, must be two pinches šŸ¤šŸ˜„

ZoomyMuffin
ZoomyMuffin

Exactly, I like a pinch rather than 2 spoonfuls of sugar earlier. Cannot stand the oversweetened tea now that my parents serve at home. Makes me giddy

QuirkyNugget
QuirkyNugget

Chai without sugar is useless. Shift to black coffee without sugar. I did that.

ZestyQuokka
ZestyQuokka
Hinge21mo

Chai without sugar is useless - agreed Shift to black coffee, can’t. I am addicted to tea, tried other caffeinated items too, other tea as well. But only milk tea clicks

JumpyPretzel
JumpyPretzel

Disagreed. Chai and Coffee without Sugar, or with very low sugar, tastes much better. I take hardly two pinches of sugar with Tea, and it tastes so great. I get the real taste of Tea. Now if somebody gives me normal amount of sugar with Tea, it feels like ā€œSharbatā€ to me, and I just can’t have it, feels like a punishment to have it. But of course, to those used to normal level of sugar, it will feel tasteless. It takes a bit of time to get off it, and once you get off, there is no going back!! I gradually reduced sugar from three quarter spoon, to half spoon, to quarter spoon, and now less than a quarter spoon (hardly two pinches of sugar).

GoofyHamster
GoofyHamster
Swiggy21mo

Stevia is a good option but it's tough to find good ones on the market since a lot of them have bitter aftertastes

FuzzyNarwhal
FuzzyNarwhal

Never eat stevia. Carcinogenic

GoofyHamster
GoofyHamster
Swiggy21mo

What? Stevia is plant based no, should be much better than the artificial sweeteners šŸ¤”

SillyJellybean
SillyJellybean

Ledidi berry

ZestyQuokka
ZestyQuokka
Hinge21mo

This is great! But WebMD says There isn't enough reliable information to know if miracle fruit is safe or what the side effects might be. Miracle fruit might cause an allergic reaction in some people.

SillyJellybean
SillyJellybean

Won't know unless you don't try šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø

PrancingDonut
PrancingDonut

So sorry to see such misinformation being peddled here. And when you push back you will get ad hominem attacks. For all the intelligent folks here, instead of reading from whatsapp university and instagram college, have a look at this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5133084/ This is a meta analysis of effect of sugar on body over multiple scientific studies. This covers proper testing mechanism and is a govt published documentation so there really is no one benefitting from this article becoming popular. One can find a lot of documents like that. Once again I have not said excessive sugar is not bad. It is bad. But that doesn't make sugar bad. Especially when a person is drinking a cup of tea once a day with just a teaspoon of sugar. Ignorance and arrogance about the said ignorance is definitely bad

BubblyPotato
BubblyPotato

You can use stevia or natural stevia or monkfruit sweetener

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