The historical change of tapioca pearl

February 11, 2023

tapioca pearls

The Tapioca Pearl, boba or flour ball in the drink is mainly made of starch, which is usually made by adding water and sugar to the cassava flour. Because of the starch properties, boiled pearls naturally have a Q-shot taste. Some shops add wheat protein, corn starch and edible starch to make the pearls more chewy, but these are all legal food additives.

The economic miracle of Taiwan's beverage industry, pinkballs, also known as pearl pinkballs, are usually made from sweet potato (i.e. sweet potato) powder, Taibai powder or tapioca powder, and are non-stick and tough to bite. There are different sizes of pearls, and the pearls of "Boba" bubble tea are big pearls. What makes bubble tea special is the addictive, chewy texture of the pearls.

In fact, early Taiwan's flour circle is white, and we now drink bubble tea in the white flour circle or sago dew, because early Taiwan sweet potato (according to the name of sweet potato) powder varieties, can only roll out this white flour circle, but not as small as sago, until more than 60 years ago, when the emergence of new sweet potato in Taiwan, flour circle has a great change, The new sweet potato powder makes the pink circles with better Q strength and slightly brown color. The colored pink circles seem to be more popular, so the white pink circles were eliminated. As for the current pink circles, some of them are caramelized, so the color is darker.

Pearl pink circle is the mesh size calculation method is as follows:
But mesh size screening, not every factory will be the same, as the factory will do the same error.
Boba Powder Round 2.5(about 9.5mm)
Pearl powder round 2.2 (about 7.5mm), 2.0 (about 6.5mm), 1.8(about 6mm)
Mini Pink Circle 1.2(about 5mm)
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