Day: May 17, 2012

Do You Like Bubble Tea ? Read This

This is a posting from an email that I receive from a friend and decided to share.
For bubble tea lovers, please read below :
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Bubble tea shops are popping up all over the place – in malls, on corners, and anywhere else thirsty teens tend to gather. Bubble tea, also called pearl milk tea or boba tea, originated in Taiwan and has become a worldwide sipping – and chewing – phenomenon.
But what is bubble tea anyway? Take a cup, plop in a handful of round, gelatinous pearls of tapioca, top it with brewed black or green tea, mix in some milk, sugar, flavouring, and ice. Then shake it all up, and you’ve got yourself a bubble tea.(1)
 
Bubble tea brings a lot of sweet excitement to our taste buds but it is also very harmful to health.

Milk essence is the main ingredient in bubble tea. Ten cups of fresh milk cannot match the taste of a teaspoon of milk essence.The main ingredient of milk essence is hygrogenated vegetable oil, a type of transfat. Experts says that a glass of 500ml of bubble tea a day far exceed the allowable limit of transfat for any person(2grams a day)(7). It will lead to heart and blood vessel diseases.(2)
 
Milk essence gives the bubble tea the fragrance and make it tasty. The fragrance and tastiness derived from a type of chemical. This chemical has trace of arsenic, lead, copper and many harmful minerals(6). Long term consumption can lead to heart and blood vessel disease, cancer, asthma and other health complications.(5)
 
Consuming the black bubbles pearls is equivalent to consuming plastic. Normally these bubbles were made from casava (tapioca) powder, which could lead to cyanide poisoning (8). This alone does not give the rubbery texture. To make it more rubbery, millet protein is added. Some “black hearted” businessmen felt that this is still not rubbery enough. so, an artificial plastic powder is added. This type of artificial plastic material will never be digested and absorbed into the body, and bear in mind, plastic is toxic to your body if consumed. It will remain in the body and cause havoc to our health. You can imagine what will happen to your health after prolonged consumption of transfat and plastic!!!!(3) (4) 
Source:
Read what I Found at Wikipedia 

Concerns have arisen regarding harmful chemicals that may be used to make popular bubble tea drinks. Boba pearls, milk powder, and juice syrups may contain banned chemical additives in order to reduce costs. In May 2011, a food scandal broke out in Taiwan where DEHP (a chemical plasticizer and potential carcinogen used to make plastic) was found as a stabilizer in drinks and juice syrups. Some of these products may have been exported and used in bubble tea shops in the US and around the world. DEHP can affect hormone balances.[8][9]

In June 2011, the Health Minister of Malaysia, Liow Tiong Lai, instructed companies selling “Strawberry Syrup,” a material used in some bubble teas, to stop selling them after chemical tests showed they were tainted with a carcinogen identified as DEHP.[10]

Being Part of NKRA Needs Subscription?

Earlier today I wrote a post about one application that can be used across all mobile platform and published in on my xperienceoflife. It is a social duty application and also for your own safety in case there is an emergendy or you saw someone who need urgent help from the police. The app is MyDistress. This application can be downloaded from Android Market or Google Play or from the website itself HERE.

After completing the draft and clicked sent, I surf the MyDistress website and read the FAQ. To my surprise, MyDistress is NOT FREE because there is a monthly subscription of RM 2.00 and MyDistress calls are subjected the the telcos charges. It does not state whether RM2.00 is for every mobile gadget or for every single user registered. 

Then I wonder why must PDRM charge the monthly subscription when I think not every subscriber to MyDistress will need that emergency help everyday. Furthermore, that application is a project by Selangor  PDRM and under the NKRA. NKRA is spending taxpayers money and now the taxpayer has to fork more money to use their product. RM2.00 is not much, but consider if 1 million mobile owners has to pay, NKRA is making money out of their service to the Rakyat. Rakyat Didahulukan, I suppose.