I thought just because it has the word tea, it was also healthy. But I was wrong.

The milk tea house has been a booming business all over the Philippines since 2017 or 18 and said to be originated from Taiwan, the same origin as Meteor Garden and the F4 fever. 

I was a fanatic of bubble milk tea, but not until last 2019 at the beginning of the year. A doctor I met once advised me to stop drinking tea or milk tea, coffee, and soda, as well as eating chocolate due to the medication she gave me. I was banned from consuming chocolate and I hiatus from consuming my all-time favorite drink, bubble milk tea, for about a year and had few secret rendezvous with my lover bubble milk tea and chocolate at the beginning of my withdrawal. 

There are a lot of unhealthy drinks in the market like soda, artificial fruit juice, and unauthentic chocolate drink, and milk tea just added to the list. These kinds of drinks are harmful to health if not consume moderately. These drinks contain mostly a lot of sugar, and when I say a lot, it is more than what our body needs. People may not easily and totally get away from these drinks since they are what the markets offer to its customer, and to be honest they are a lot much cheaper than those organic products we get to see online. Good thing I am not a fan of soda or any artificial fruit juice drink, but I was crazy for chocolate drinks and bubble milk tea.

This year 2020, I decided to look for an alternative and healthier choice of milk tea drink, and since I no longer taking that medicine after a month of doing so, now I can freely go back to drinking my all-time favorite, milk tea and tea alone. I list down two of my go-to healthy drinks and where to buy them:

Gold Leaf Teas is the largest local hot tea brand in the Philippines, bringing world-class premium teas to the home of every Filipino at unbeatable prices!

I get to purchase quality tea bags for an affordable price from them. They offer a wide variety of tea. I prefer getting my supplies of tea from Gold Leaf Shopee store since they always have discounts.

Drinking tea is good for my tummy. If I feel bloated, I just have to drink tea and I get to release the air trapped in my stomach. It has calming effect and also known as an antioxidant to help you remove the toxins brought by harmful elements in our bodies.

 

If you want to try drinking tea, you may click the link to visit Gold Leaf online store: https://shopee.ph/gold_leaf

Celestial Milk Tea is your heavenly milk tea. It's healthy and affordable for the price of 195 pesos per liter. They have three different flavors, all sugar-free: winter melon, Okinawa, and salted caramel. Instead of using the mainstream milk available in the market, CMT uses 100% carabao milk in making their tea. Their milk tea has lower cholesterol, higher calcium, and energy booster. A healthier choice for all the milk tea lovers out there!

Other benefits of carabao milk are that it contains riboflavin needed for normal growth, the agent against skin swelling, inflammation of the lining of mouth and tongue, and dizziness. It also has vitamin A for good eyesight, and vitamin D, calcium, and phosphorus for strong bones and teeth. 

Aside from milk tea, pure carabao milk is also available from them and can be purchased for 219 pesos per liter. It is much cheaper than buying from the ones I saw on Shopee.

You may visit their page and message to order your very first heavenly milk tea:

So, have you decided what to put in your glasses next time you crave a flavored drink? I hope you will make the right choice and you may also suggest what other healthy yet affordable drink I should try next time. May we all choose a healthier way of living this 2020! Keep safe!