As soon as summer arrives, various cold drinks and tea drinks become hot sellers. In the past few days, the tea drinks in supermarkets are entering a “peak period” of sales promotion. Green tea, oolong tea, melon tea, etc. have all been placed in the most prominent promotional locations of major supermarkets. It is said that tea can be both health care and weight loss, not a few people buy. So is it really the case? The afternoon before yesterday afternoon, Ms. Lin from the urban area took this question into the hotline of the newspaper, saying that she saw articles on the Internet two days ago that a lot of bottled tea drinks actually contain sugar, and drinking sugary tea can not lose weight but will change Fat, so she wanted to know if she would gain weight by drinking these tea drinks.

Question: Drinking "green tea" wants to lose weight but become fat?

Miss Lin who lives in the downtown area is a health care person who loves tea. There was a time when she drank a lot of green tea every day to lose weight. However, after drinking green tea foaming in her home, her stomach will have obvious discomfort each time, commonly known as "stomach scraping." She is still very sure that green tea does indeed have a weight loss effect, so since the success of weight loss, Ms. Lin has begun to choose bottled green tea to replace her foaming green tea.

"I didn't have the feeling of 'scraping' after drinking bottled green tea, but after drinking it for a while, I found that I was getting fat," said Miss Lin with regrets. These two days, netizens also talked about it, saying that Tea drinks have sugar, and drinking will increase fat.

In addition to tea drinks, there are readers entering the hotline for the past two days. It is said that some low-sugar defatted yoghurt products in the supermarket are actually very sweet. The reader said that many of the zero-fat yoghurt beverages are obviously able to eat sugary flavours, which makes many women who are losing weight frightened.

Verification: Most bottled teas add "sugar"

Will drink bottled tea increase fat? The day before yesterday, the reporter visited several supermarkets' drink counters and examined the ingredients of many tea drinks. The reporter found that most bottled teas have “sugar” added. Because of the weather, these beverages sold quite fiercely and many supermarkets also engaged in promotions.

In the outer packaging of these bottled teas, the reporter saw the wording of "white granulated sugar" on the ingredient list, and also included additives such as sodium hexametaphosphate and sodium citrate. Some "old yoghurt" ingredients, in addition to white sugar, there are gelatin, agar and other additives, lactic acid bacteria drinks are spices and other additives.

Do these ingredients have any effect on weight loss? The reporter consulted with a dietitian at Shaoxing College of Arts and Sciences. The other party pointed out that low-fat foods and fat-free foods do not mean no sugar. Although these foods contain no fat or less fat, their taste is very poor. In order for the product to be marketable, the only way is to change the taste.

“Of course, some beverages are definitely not sugared, but businesses will add something else instead of sugar, and then label 'unsweetened' to attract consumers.” The nutritionist said that drinking a bottle of green tea is equivalent to eating 9 tablespoons of sugar. Drink a bottle of green tea daily and add up to 9 kilograms of fat a year.

Reminder: “Slimming” tea is still its own brew. It was learned that a few years ago, the Consumer Council of Hong Kong had conducted a test on 30 bottled green teas sold on the market and found that some bottled green teas contained more sugar than Coke and a certain brand of bottled iced green tea ( The lemon-flavored green tea drinks have a sugar content as high as 9.2% and a calorie content of 184 kcal.

Visible, it is best to lose weight people do not want to pursue bottled drinks. So what kind of beverage can you drink to make the girl who is losing weight feel relieved? Nutritionist told reporters that because the tea polyphenols in bottled green tea beverages have basically been destroyed during processing, the nutritional value has also been reduced. Therefore, if consumers want to get the nutritional content of tea or achieve the purpose of weight loss, it is best to drink those who think they are partial sweet yoghurt products or bottled tea beverages, suggest that consumers make their own tea or drink boiled water.