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Bubble tea drinks: what's actually in it?

This page covers only bottled/canned ready-to-drink (RTD) bubble tea and instant bubble tea kits with a printed ingredient list, sold in supermarkets and Singapore online channels. That means a sealed can or bottle you open and drink, or a kit with tea powder plus a packet of pearls you add hot water to. The three things that define the category on a pack are the tea base, the sweetener/creamer, and the pearls — and the pearls are usually not tapioca alone: most RTD and kit pearls are a starch gel (tapioca starch plus thickeners, colour and flavour) in a sweet syrup, and "popping boba" is a different thing again — a juice-filled gel ball made with sodium alginate and calcium lactate, with no tapioca at all.

Made-to-order bubble tea from shops (KOI, Gong Cha, CHICHA San Chen, LiHO, PlayMade, The Alley, Tealive outlets and all other bubble tea shops) is EXCLUDED from this page. Those drinks are made fresh to order and have no pack ingredient list, so there is nothing verbatim to panel. Their menus, sugar levels and toppings are not compared here. Don Don Donki's in-store made-to-order Brown Sugar Milk With Pearls and Sweet Potato Milk With Pearls are excluded for the same reason. DIY pearl/tapioca packs sold on their own are also not panelled — they are a topping, not a drink — and are noted only in the seen-but-not-verified list. A pearl pack is panelled only as part of a bubble tea kit that has a full printed list for the whole kit.

This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick, and it does not rank the drinks.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Only one panelled product has a Singapore retailer ingredient section: O's Bubble Lychee Oolong Tea with Aloe Vera & Popping Boba (FairPrice). It starts with water and sugar, then aloe vera and popping boba — it is a fruit tea with juice-filled popping pearls, not a milk tea with chewy tapioca pearls.
"Popping boba" is not tapioca. In every O's Bubble list panelled here, popping boba is water, fructose, calcium lactate, sodium alginate and starch/xanthan gum — a gel skin around juice. Chewy "marbling" / brown-sugar boba is the tapioca-starch one (water, tapioca starch, sugar, caramel colour, brown sugar).
Instant kits are mostly creamer, not milk or brewed tea. The J Way kits panelled here are sweetened tea powder plus non-dairy creamer (glucose syrup, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, whey/milk protein, sucralose) with a separate brown-sugar boba packet. The 3:15PM kit is the same pattern: a creamer-based milk-tea powder (glucose syrup, fully hydrogenated coconut oil, milk protein) plus brown-sugar pearl balls. No kit panelled here lists fresh milk or brewed tea as the first ingredient — the tea is a powder in a creamer base.
Almost everything else found is unverified. Pocas canned bubble tea (7 flavours), Boba Queen canned brown sugar milk tea, the J Way Crème Brûlée kit on Shopee Singapore and the Tealive 3-in-1 powders are all on sale in Singapore, but no verbatim SG ingredient list was retrievable for any of them in this pass, so they sit in seen-but-not-verified — not panelled on a guess, and not panelled from another country's listing as if it were the SG pack.
Only one product on this page was panelled from a Singapore source. The other six panelled products are flagged non-SG lists (US retailer listings for the J Way kits, a Taiwan listing for 3:15PM, US label transcriptions for the other O's Bubble products). They are panelled as flagged examples of what the product's list looks like in that market — not as verified SG pack lists. An SG pack photo is still needed for every one of them.
Search was cut short by rate limits on 5 November 2026. Several channels (Giant, Sheng Siong, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada) were not fully inventoried in this pass, and the FairPrice product page for the one SG-panelled product returned a 404 when re-fetched the same day. This page is therefore thinner than the other category pages and must not be read as a complete shelf. See "Sources and method" and the research notes.

At a glance

Product	Type	First ingredient	Pearls	Source strength	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
O's Bubble Lychee Oolong Tea with Aloe Vera & Popping Boba	RTD fruit tea, 480ml	Water	Popping boba (alginate gel, no tapioca)	SG retailer — FairPrice ingredient section	480ml	Taiwan
O's Bubble Strawberry Lychee Flavor With Popping Boba	RTD fruit tea	Water	Popping boba (alginate gel)	Flagged non-SG — US label transcription (EWG/LabelINSIGHT)	not stated	not stated
O's Bubble Fruit Tea Popping Boba Party Kit (Mango / Peach / Passion Fruit Green Tea)	RTD party kit, 3 flavours	Fructose (syrups)	Popping boba, mango flavour	Flagged non-SG — US label transcription (EWG/LabelINSIGHT)	not stated	not stated
O's Bubble Instant Marbling Boba Kit (Coffee flavour)	Instant kit — boba + syrup	Water (boba); Maltose (syrup)	Marbling boba (tapioca starch)	Flagged non-SG — US label transcription (EWG/LabelINSIGHT)	240g (4 × 60g)	not stated
J Way Classic Milk Tea Boba Kit	Instant kit, 3 drinks	Water (boba); Sugar (tea powder)	Brown-sugar boba (tapioca starch)	Flagged non-SG — US retailer ingredient section (Pick 'n Save)	3 drinks (pack weight not stated)	not stated
J Way Taro Boba Kit	Instant kit, 3 drinks	Water (boba); Sugar (taro powder)	Brown-sugar boba (tapioca starch)	Flagged non-SG — US retailer ingredient section (Pick 'n Save)	3 drinks (pack weight not stated)	not stated
3:15PM Brown Sugar Pearl Milk Tea	Instant kit, 3 drinks	Creamer (tea powder); Rice balls — tapioca flour (pearls)	Brown-sugar pearl balls (tapioca flour)	Flagged non-SG — Taiwan listing (Pinkoi); SG sale confirmed on Shopee SG	3 × (20g tea + 50g pearls)	Taiwan (Pinkoi listing claim)

Panelled with verbatim lists: 7 products (1 from a Singapore retailer ingredient section, 6 flagged non-SG lists). Seen-but-not-verified: 41 products/flavours — see the list below. No product on this page was panelled from a Singapore pack photo.

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Ready to drink — fruit tea with popping boba

O's Bubble Lychee Oolong Tea with Aloe Vera & Popping Boba — 480ml

Pack size: 480ml · Made in: Taiwan (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Water, Sugar, Aloe Vera, Popping Boba (Water, Fructose, Calcium Lactate, Sodium Alginate, Starch Acetate, Flavors, Malic Acid, Xanthan Gum), Lychee Juice, Oolong Tea, Flavor, Citric Acid, Calcium Lactate, Sodium Citrate, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Sodium Erythorbate.

The only SG-retailer panel on this page. Water and sugar first, then aloe vera and popping boba, with lychee juice and oolong tea after the pearls — this is a sweetened fruit tea, not a milk tea, and there is no milk, creamer or tapioca in it at all. The popping boba is an alginate gel ball (sodium alginate + calcium lactate), not a chewy tapioca pearl. Country of origin: Taiwan; imported by Aureo Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore; ready to drink, room-temperature storage. Caution: the FairPrice product page returned a 404 when re-fetched on 5 November 2026, although the ingredient section was captured in search results the same day — the listing may have been delisted or moved, so re-verify before treating this as currently on sale. RTD fruit tea Popping boba — no tapioca Added sugar: sugar, fructose Origin: Taiwan

O's Bubble Strawberry Lychee Flavor With Popping Boba

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (US label transcription via EWG/LabelINSIGHT — flagged non-SG, not the SG pack): Water, Popping Boba (Water, Fructose, Calcium Lactate, Sodium Alginate, Starch Acetate, Xanthan Gum, DL-Malic Acid), Fructose, Lychee Juice, Malic Acid, Strawberry Juice, Artificial Flavor, Citric Acid, Vitamin C, Sucralose, Red 40.

Same popping-boba pattern as the FairPrice lychee oolong, with strawberry juice added and sucralose plus Red 40 colouring — the US label differs from the SG FairPrice list (which has aloe vera, oolong tea and sodium erythorbate, and no sucralose or Red 40), so the two lists must not be mixed up. Flag: no SG pack list was retrieved for this flavour; the SG sale of this exact flavour was not confirmed in this pass. Panelled only as a flagged US-label example. RTD fruit tea Popping boba — no tapioca Sweeteners: fructose, sucralose Colouring: Red 40 US label only

O's Bubble Fruit Tea Popping Boba Party Kit — Mango Green Tea / Peach Green Tea / Passion Fruit Green Tea (with Mango Flavour Popping Boba)

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (US label transcription via EWG/LabelINSIGHT — flagged non-SG, not the SG pack). Mango Green Tea syrup: Fructose, Sugar, Water, Mango Puree, Artificial Flavor, Green Tea Powder, Tartaric Acid, Glycine, DL-Alanine, Cellulose Gum, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Colors (Yellow 6, Yellow 5). Peach Green Tea syrup: Fructose, Sugar, Water, Peach Juice Concentrate, Green Tea Powder, Artificial Flavor, DL-Malic Acid, Sodium Citrate, Tartaric Acid, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Xanthan Gum, Cellulose Gum, Red 40 (Color). Passion Fruit Green Tea syrup: Fructose, Sugar, Water, Passion Fruit Juice, Artificial Flavor, Green Tea Powder, Citric Acid, Xanthan Gum, Cellulose Gum, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Colors (Yellow 5, Yellow 6). Mango Flavour Popping Boba: Water, Fructose, Starch Acetate, Calcium Lactate, Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Sodium Alginate, Xanthan Gum, Artificial Flavor, Calcium Chloride, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Colors (Yellow 6, Red 40), Cellulose Gum.

One kit, three syrup flavours sharing one popping-boba component. Every syrup starts with fructose and sugar — these are syrup concentrates to dilute, not ready-to-drink teas, and green tea powder is well down each list. All three syrups and the boba contain potassium sorbate as a preservative and artificial colours. Flag: no SG sale or SG pack list was retrieved for this kit; panelled only as a flagged US-label example. Party kit — syrups, not RTD Popping boba — no tapioca Sweeteners: fructose, sugar Preservative: potassium sorbate US label only

Instant kits — chewy (tapioca) boba

O's Bubble Instant Marbling Boba Kit — Coffee Flavour

Pack size: 240g (4 × 60g) · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (US label transcription via EWG/LabelINSIGHT — flagged non-SG, not the SG pack). Brown Sugar Boba: Water, Tapioca Starch, Sugar, Acetylated Distarch Adipate, Caramel Color, Brown Sugar, Flavor, Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose, Glucono-δ-Lactone, Xanthan Gum, Lactic Acid, Malic Acid. Coffee Syrup: Maltose, Water, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Coffee Powder, Flavor, Sodium Stearoyl-2-Lactylate, Potassium Sorbate, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose.

The boba here is the chewy kind — tapioca starch first after water, with caramel colour and brown sugar — unlike the popping boba above. The coffee syrup is maltose-led, with coffee powder fifth. Flag: this is the coffee flavour only; the same kit range also comes in Black Tea, Matcha, Taro and Brown Sugar flavours (listed by an overseas retailer), for which no lists were retrieved — those four stay seen-but-not-verified and must not be assumed to share this list. No SG sale or SG pack list was retrieved for any flavour of this kit. Instant kit Chewy boba — tapioca starch Added sugar: sugar, brown sugar, maltose US label only

J Way Classic Milk Tea Boba Kit — 3 drinks

Pack size: 3 drinks (pack weight not stated) · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (US retailer ingredient section, Pick 'n Save — flagged non-SG, not the SG pack). Brown Sugar Boba: Water, Tapioca Starch, Fructose, Modified Tapioca Starch, Glucose, Xanthan Gum, Pectin, Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose, Citric Acid, Caramel Color, Sodium Polyphosphate, Artificial Flavors, Brown Sugar. Sweetened Tea and Non-Dairy Creamer: Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Instant Black Tea Powder, Whey [Milk], Maltodextrin, Sodium Caseinate, Dipotassium Phosphate, Silicon Dioxide, Tripotassium Phosphate, Mono & Diglyceride, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mono & Diglycerides (DATEM), Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose, Sucralose, Beta Carotene [Color]. Contains milk and its derivatives.

Three brown-sugar boba packets, three classic milk-tea powder packets and three paper straws per kit; each drink contains about 40mg of caffeine (retailer description). The tea powder is sugar and glucose syrup first, with hydrogenated palm kernel oil as the creamer fat and instant black tea powder fourth — there is no fresh milk and no brewed tea in the kit. Flag: the SG sale of this exact Classic 3-pack was not confirmed in this pass — Shopee Singapore's Jway Foods official store lists the Crème Brûlée kit, not this one — so this is panelled as a flagged US-retailer list, not an SG pack list. The 2019 FairPrice sighting of a J Way brown-sugar bubble tea kit is likely this product, but that is not verified from a current SG listing. Instant kit Chewy boba — tapioca starch Non-dairy creamer Sweetener: sucralose Allergen: milk US retailer only

J Way Taro Boba Kit — 3 drinks

Pack size: 3 drinks (pack weight not stated) · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (US retailer ingredient section, Pick 'n Save — flagged non-SG, not the SG pack). Brown Sugar Boba: Water, Tapioca Starch, Fructose, Modified Tapioca Starch, Glucose, Xanthan Gum, Pectin, Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose, Citric Acid [listed as "Citric Acis" in the source — a source typo, quoted as printed], Caramel Color, Sodium Polyphosphate, Artificial Flavors [listed as "Artifical Flavors" in the source], Brown Sugar. Sweetened Taro and Non-Dairy Creamer Powder: Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Whey [Milk], Taro Powder, Artificial Flavors, Maltodextrin, Sodium Caseinate, Silicon Dioxide [listed as "Silcon Dioxide" in the source], Dipotassium Phosphate, Tripotassium Phosphate, Mono & Diglyceride, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mono & Diglycerides [DATEM], Beta Carotene [Color], Sucralose, Blue 1, Red 3, Red 40. Contains milk and its derivatives.

Same brown-sugar boba as the Classic kit; the drink powder swaps instant black tea for taro powder and adds three colours (Blue 1, Red 3, Red 40) to make the taro purple. Flag: as with the Classic kit, no SG sale or SG pack list was retrieved for this Taro 3-pack — panelled as a flagged US-retailer list only. Instant kit Chewy boba — tapioca starch Non-dairy creamer Colouring: Blue 1, Red 3, Red 40 Allergen: milk US retailer only

3:15PM Brown Sugar Pearl Milk Tea — 3 drinks

Pack size: 3 × (20g tea + 50g pearls) · Made in: Taiwan (Pinkoi listing claim) (as printed)

Ingredients (Taiwan listing, Pinkoi — flagged non-SG, not the SG pack; SG sale confirmed on Shopee Singapore, SG pack not transcribed). Brown sugar milk tea (20g): Creamer (Glucose Syrup, Fully Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Milk Protein, Dipotassium Hydrogen Phosphate, Sodium Polyphosphate, Fatty Acid Glycerides, Mono- and Di-Fatty Acid Glyceryl Diacetyl Tartrate, Sodium Octenyl Succinate Starch, Silicon Dioxide, β-Carotene), Fine Sugar, Brown Sugar, Black Tea, Edible Spices, Oolong Tea. Brown sugar pearl powder balls (50g): Rice balls (Tapioca Flour, Water, Thickener (Hydroxypropyl Distarch Phosphate, Acetylated Distarch Phosphate), Caramel Coloring, Thickener (Sodium Alginate), Brown Sugar Flavor), Water, Fructose, Brown Sugar (Disose, Molasses), Thickener (Corn Gum), Citrus Pectin, Thickener (Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose), Flavoring (Malic Acid), Quality Improver (Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate).

Two components, two lists: a creamer-based milk-tea powder (creamer first, then fine sugar and brown sugar, with black tea and oolong tea after the sugars) and microwaveable brown-sugar pearls (tapioca flour, heated 30 seconds). The brand states no preservatives are added. Flag: the list is from a Taiwan Pinkoi listing; the SG Shopee listing (3:15PM SG Store, 3-pack) gives no ingredient list, so the SG pack still needs a photo. Do not confuse this with the separate Shopee SG listing titled "3:15PM Boba Milk Tea Instant Drink with Pearls", whose flavour/variant is not stated — that one stays seen-but-not-verified. Instant kit Chewy pearls — tapioca flour Non-dairy creamer Allergen: milk (milk protein) Taiwan listing only

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

41 products/flavours. Every item below was found on sale (or listed for sale) in Singapore, or is a known flavour of a panelled range, but no verbatim ingredient list could be verified for it in this pass — mostly because the Singapore retailer publishes no ingredient section, the marketplace listing truncates or gives no list, or the only list found is for another market and must not be presented as the SG pack.

Pocas Bubble Tea with Tapioca Pearls, 490ml cans — 7 flavours: Brown Sugar, Matcha, Taro, Thai Tea, Honeydew, Coffee, Strawberry. Brand catalogue (pocas.com) confirms all seven, 16.5 fl oz / 490ml, with tapioca pearls. SG sale via Desertcart Singapore (Honeydew pack of 8) and Ubuy Singapore (variety pack, imported from the USA store) — no SG supermarket shelf listing and no verbatim list retrieved for any flavour. The brand PDF gives flavours and sizes only, no ingredients.
Boba Queen Brown Sugar Bubble Milk Tea Canned Drink (Halal). Shopee Singapore (Crave Lane), produced in Vietnam, ready-to-drink can. Description only — no ingredient list retrieved.
J Way Crème Brûlée Boba / Bubble Tea Kit (6 drinks, with real caramel tapioca pearls). Shopee Singapore, Jway Foods Singapore Official Store; sold out at check. Description gives the kit contents (6 crème brûlée milk-tea drinks, 6 caramel boba packets, 6 straws) but no ingredient list. Do not assume it shares the Classic kit's list — the flavour powder is different.
3:15PM Boba Milk Tea Instant Drink with Pearls (3-pack) — Shopee Singapore listing. Flavour/variant not stated in the retrieved listing; it may be the same Brown Sugar Pearl kit panelled above, but that is not verified, so it is listed separately here rather than merged.
Tealive 3-in-1 — 3 flavours: Signature Milk Tea, Matcha, Gula Melaka Teh Tarik. Shopee Singapore twin-pack listing (Signature). A Malaysia-market listing gives a full list for the Signature (creamer, Tealive brown sugar, instant black tea 5.5%, condensed milk powder, salt, palm-sugar flavouring, sucralose) — that is a MY list, not quoted here as the SG pack, and the powder contains no pearls, despite the Shopee title calling it a "Bubble Tea Boba Drink". Needs an SG pack check, including whether pearls are included at all.
Tealive My Bubble Tea Kit. Malaysia/Australia bulk DIY kit (1kg pearls, brown sugar, matcha, hojicha, Milklab milk, straws; recipes for Bang Bang Brown Sugar drinks). No SG retail sale confirmed, and the components are listed by name only ("refer to packaging" for the pearls) — no full list.
Polar Bubble Tea — 3 flavours: Brown Sugar Bubble Milk Drink, Peach Bubble Tea, Premium Coffee Bubble Milk Drink. Cheers / FairPrice Xpress, 2021 giveaway listing; made in Taiwan, real konjac pearls, no preservatives or artificial colouring (listing claim). No ingredient list retrieved; current availability not verified.
I Love Taimei Instant Bubble Tea — 2 flavours: Matcha, Tie Guanyin. FairPrice Online and six outlets, 2019; tea bag, milk powder and white jelly pearls per cup. No ingredient list retrieved; current availability not verified.
White Rabbit Milk Tea — 4 flavours: Milk Tea, White Peach Oolong Tea, Sea Salt and Cheese, Genki Black Tea. FairPrice Finest, 2020; instant milk-tea sachets with milk powder, condensed milk, nata de coco and red beans — no tapioca pearls, so borderline for this category even if a list were found. No ingredient list retrieved.
O's Bubble RTD — other flavours: Popping Boba Mango & Lychee 350ml, Popping Boba Strawberry & Peach 350ml, Popping Boba Lychee 240ml. Overseas retailer listings confirm the flavours and sizes; only the Lychee Oolong (FairPrice) and Strawberry Lychee (US label) are panelled. No SG lists retrieved for these three.
O's Bubble Instant Marbling Boba Kit — other flavours: Black Tea, Matcha, Taro, Brown Sugar. Overseas retailer listing confirms the four flavours (240g, 4 × 60g); only the Coffee flavour is panelled. No lists retrieved for these four.
O's Bubble Popping Boba DIY Kit — 3 flavours: Mango, Passion Fruit, Strawberry (3 × 80g). Topping-only kits (popping boba, no tea) listed by an overseas retailer; no full list retrieved. Topping-only, so borderline for this category in any case.
Kung Fu Tea canned milk tea — 2 flavours: Brown Sugar Milk Tea, Thai Milk Tea. US canned drinks; the brand states the cans contain no boba ("to ensure freshness"). No SG sale evidence found, and no boba in the can — listed here so they are not mistaken for missing RTD bubble tea, not as a panel candidate.
DaoHer canned boba — 6 flavours: Classic BOBA, Brown Sugar BOBA, Crème Brûlée BOBA, Matcha BOBA, Brown Sugar Oat BOBA, Royal Assam Oat BOBA. Taiwan brand (daoherbev.com); canned milk tea with konjac boba pearls. No SG sale evidence found in this pass and no ingredient list retrieved for any flavour.
DIY pearl/tapioca packs sold on their own (not drinks, noted for completeness): Muji DIY tapioca pearls; Shopee SG fast-cook vegetarian black/gold/taro boba; Shopee SG 3kg Taiwan black pearl (brown-sugar) bulk packs; J-Way Boba Now Brown Sugar Ready-to-Eat Tapioca Pearls (5 × 50g). Topping only — no drink list, so not panelled and not counted in the 41 above.

Excluded — not on this page, and why

Made-to-order bubble tea shops: KOI, Gong Cha, CHICHA San Chen, LiHO, PlayMade, The Alley, Tealive outlets, and every other made-to-order shop. No pack list exists; nothing to panel.
Don Don Donki in-store drinks: Brown Sugar Milk With Pearls and Sweet Potato Milk With Pearls (Sweet Potato Factory / Donki stores) — made to order in store, no pack list.
Bubble-tea-flavoured foods, not drinks: Killiney Bubble Milk Tea Ice Cream, bubble milk tea gelato, AChino Brown Sugar Boba Ice Cream Bars — ice cream, not a drink, out of scope.
Plain milk tea with no pearls/boba and no kit: ordinary RTD milk tea (e.g. canned milk tea with no pearls) belongs on the milk-tea / bottled-tea pages, not here. Kung Fu Tea cans are noted above only because they are sold as bubble-tea-brand cans.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

No per-100ml nutrition panel was verified for any panelled product in this pass. The table below therefore quotes figures per serving, as printed, and flags them as such — they are not converted to per 100ml, and figures from one product are never copied onto another flavour or variant. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any panelled product in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Sodium is not presented as salt, and salt is not presented as sodium.

Total vs added sugars: Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as "added sugar". Where a source states an added-sugars figure separately, it is noted in the research notes. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, fructose, glucose syrup, maltose, brown sugar) versus naturally occurring sugars.

EWG/LabelINSIGHT figures are US-label transcriptions and are flagged as secondary where used: the pack and the retailer nutrition section take precedence if they disagree. Figures marked "not stated" were not in the source retrieved; they are not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours. The O's Bubble Party Kit and Marbling Boba Kit figures are per kit portion as printed (50g / 60g), not per prepared drink — the prepared drink's per-100ml values depend on how much water is added, which the source does not state.

Product	Basis	Energy	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
O's Bubble Strawberry Lychee Flavor With Popping Boba	Per serving, 11.8 fl oz, as printed (US label)	110 kcal	28 g	26 g	5 mg (salt 0.0125 g)
O's Bubble Fruit Tea Popping Boba Party Kit (per flavour portion)	Per 50 g, as printed (US label)	140 kcal	34 g	31 g	10 mg (salt 0.025 g)
O's Bubble Instant Marbling Boba Kit (Coffee)	Per 60 g, as printed (US label)	127 kcal	31 g	23 g	15 mg (salt 0.0375 g)

Observed numbers, no verdict: the three US-label servings above list 26 g, 31 g and 23 g of sugars per serving/portion respectively, all with 0 g protein and 0 g fat. Sodium is 5 mg, 10 mg and 15 mg per serving/portion respectively. Because the serving bases differ (11.8 fl oz drink vs 50 g syrup portion vs 60 g kit portion), these three figures are not comparable with each other and are not compared here.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no nutrition panel was verified in this pass for O's Bubble Lychee Oolong Tea with Aloe Vera & Popping Boba (FairPrice), J Way Classic Milk Tea Boba Kit, J Way Taro Boba Kit, 3:15PM Brown Sugar Pearl Milk Tea, or any of the 41 seen-but-not-verified products/flavours. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here.

How to read a bubble tea pack — the jargon, in plain English

Ready to drink (RTD): A sealed can or bottle you open and drink as-is. The pearls are already in the drink.
Instant bubble tea kit: A box with separate packets — usually a tea/creamer powder and a packet of pearls — that you make up with hot water (and ice). The ingredient list has two parts, one per packet, and they must not be merged into one list.
Tapioca pearls / boba / marbling boba: Chewy balls made from tapioca starch (or tapioca flour) with thickeners, colour and sugar syrup. "Brown sugar boba" means the pearls are coated or made with brown sugar — it does not mean the drink itself is brown-sugar milk.
Popping boba: Juice-filled gel balls that burst when bitten. Made with sodium alginate and calcium lactate (the gel skin), plus fructose and juice — no tapioca, no chew. A different product from tapioca pearls, even when the brand name is the same.
Konjac pearls: Chewy pearls made from konjac (a plant fibre), used by Polar and DaoHer. They are not tapioca pearls, and the ingredient list will say konjac, not tapioca starch.
Non-dairy creamer: A powder made from glucose syrup and a hydrogenated vegetable oil (palm kernel oil or coconut oil) with milk protein — it makes the drink creamy without fresh milk. If a kit lists "non-dairy creamer" first, the drink is creamer-based, not milk-based, even if the front says "milk tea".
Hydrogenated palm kernel oil / fully hydrogenated coconut oil: The fat in most instant-kit creamers. "Fully hydrogenated" means the oil has been hardened; it is listed here because it is the creamer's fat source, not because this page judges it.
Sucralose: A zero-calorie sweetener, listed in the J Way kits and in the O's Bubble Strawberry Lychee US label, alongside sugar/fructose. Its presence means the sweetness is not all from sugar.
"No preservatives" vs potassium sorbate: 3:15PM states no preservatives are added. The O's Bubble party kit and marbling kit list potassium sorbate as a preservative. Both claims are quoted as printed — check the pack you buy.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. RTD fruit teas, RTD milk teas and instant kits are different products, and this page does not rank them.
Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
Not complete. Only 7 products are panelled, only 1 of them from a Singapore retailer ingredient section, and 41 products/flavours are seen-but-not-verified for the reasons given — including the best-known canned bubble tea on the market (Pocas), which has no retrievable list at all. Several supermarket channels were not fully inventoried in this pass (see Sources and method). Nothing here is hidden; the gaps are listed, not smoothed over.
Not a guide to made-to-order bubble tea shops. Those drinks have no pack list and are excluded, not forgotten.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice search-index ingredient section (O's Bubble Lychee Oolong Tea with Aloe Vera & Popping Boba — product page returned a 404 on re-fetch the same day); EWG Food Scores / LabelINSIGHT US label transcriptions (O's Bubble Strawberry Lychee, Fruit Tea Popping Boba Party Kit, Instant Marbling Boba Kit — ingredients and per-serving nutrition as printed); Pick 'n Save US retailer ingredient sections (J Way Classic Milk Tea Boba Kit, J Way Taro Boba Kit); Pinkoi Taiwan listing (3:15PM Brown Sugar Pearl Milk Tea — full two-component list); Shopee Singapore listings (3:15PM SG Store and Boba Milk Tea 3-pack; Jway Foods Singapore Official Store Crème Brûlée kit; Boba Queen canned drink; Tealive twin pack); Pocas brand catalogue PDF (flavours/sizes only, no ingredients); Desertcart Singapore and Ubuy Singapore (Pocas SG availability); overseas retailer listing (O's Bubble flavour range — Salamat, Greece); Tealive Malaysia/Australia kit pages and a Malaysia-market listing (Tealive 3-in-1 lists, flagged non-SG); 2019–2021 Singapore press (Girlstyle J Way at FairPrice, Eatbook I Love Taimei, Mothership/Avenue One White Rabbit, EverydayOnSales Polar at Cheers/FairPrice Xpress, CNA/8days Donki in-store drinks). Channels not fully inventoried in this pass: Giant, Sheng Siong, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada, Cold Storage (no bubble-tea RTD listing retrieved from Cold Storage in this pass — that is a search result, not proof the shelf is empty) and the FairPrice category listing itself (the FairPrice product page 404'd on re-fetch). Web search was rate-limited during this pass (429 responses on 5 November 2026), which cut the inventory short. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: no per-100ml figure was verified for any panelled product, so the table quotes per-serving figures as printed and does not convert them; sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars; salt = sodium × 2.5. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.