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Hot cocoa, hot milk tea and hot coffee are very warm, but many people don't know that these hot drinks contain amazing sugar. (newspaper department information photo)

If you have a sweet hot drink in winter, it immediately makes people feel warm all over. However, sweet hot drinks, although delicious, also let people unwittingly drink a lot of calories, a whole winter down, the waistline may be an extra circle.

Cocoa milk tea warms up for half a bento.

Hot cocoa, hot milk tea and hot coffee are very warm, but many people don't know that these hot drinks contain amazing sugar. Wang Baoxi, an assistant professor in the Department of Food and Beverage Management at Taiwan University of Science and Technology, says that the calories in hot drinks are exactly the ladles of sugar when they are mixed, with hot cocoa and hot milk tea having the highest sugar content.

"in general, hot drinks like to add sugar, because sugar is not only sweet but also boosts the aroma, and hot cocoa or milk tea contains more sugar than hot coffee."

Wang Baoxi took you to solve this math exercise on calories. She said that a gram of sugar will produce 4 calories, a small spoonful of sugar at least 5 grams, a tablespoon of sugar sometimes 15 grams, and 2 tablespoons of hot drinks. There are 120 calories in sugar alone. The whole cup of drink is close to 200 calories. "think about it. A cup of hot drink is worth half a bento calorie. It is not difficult to imagine why it is easy to get fat in winter."

Fructose absorbs fast heat and goes up immediately.

When "disaccharides" such as fructose and brown sugar enter the human body, they will soon become monosaccharides (glucose) grow straight into the bloodstream, stimulating the rise of blood sugar and making the body feel warm immediately. On the other hand, the sugar in the hot drink itself has been dissolved into small molecules, and the speed at which the human body is absorbed becomes faster, which is why after drinking the sweet hot drink, you can quickly feel the energy supplement, mainly because the sugar can quickly enter the bloodstream and bring in calories.

Wang Baoxi reminded that because of the taste buds, the same drink should maintain the same sweetness and add more sugar to the hot drink than the sweet drink, so don't be fooled by your tongue and gain a few pounds of meat.

Black sugar ginger cubes contain an amazing amount of sugar

Many people think that since hot cocoa and other hot drinks will make you fat, you might as well buy some black sugar ginger and longan red jujube tea powder for hot drink. I'm afraid this idea is only half right. Wang Baoxi said that in fact, Chinese wolfberry and red jujube have their own sweet taste, using the sweetness of the food itself, rather than adding sugar to make the tea taste good. In order to reduce costs, many drinks are made with sugar. Consumers have to measure and measure how much sugar is used to make concentrated sugar ginger. The tip of people's tongue is the most sensitive to sugar. generally, tea powder sold in the market usually adds a lot of sugar, which makes people feel good as soon as it is imported. To avoid this "taste trap", she suggests that it is best to drink less drinks that are convenient to brew, such as tea powder.

Sweetness of self-made hot drink ingredients instead of sugar

"you don't do much exercise in winter, and drinking hot drinks to warm you up adds a lot of calories." Wang Baoxi said that as long as you drink one more cup of sweet and hot drink a day, it is equivalent to eating half a bento every day, and you can't get away with gaining 1 or 2 kilograms a month.

She advises not to drink hot cocoa with high sugar content, but to drink chocolate with higher purity. Or if you want to drink some ginger tea, you can directly buy ginger, add some longan, red jujube or Chinese wolfberry, and replace granulated sugar and brown sugar with the sweetness of the food itself.

Wang Baoxi also warned that never eat anything too hot to warm yourself up. The mouth can secrete a lot of salivary enzymes to decompose food. once the mucosal tissue in the mouth is destroyed by eating hot food, it may develop into cytopathic changes and even cause esophageal cancer for a long time. And hot food into the belly, but also more likely to hurt the stomach, and bad for health.