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Starbucks Launches Pearl Coffee?! Starbucks coffee is too sweet to be rejected by netizens

Published: 2026-04-29 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/04/29, I believe everyone is familiar with pearl milk tea at all. Since it was introduced in Taiwan in the 1980s, the practice of making small balls from tapioca flour into milk tea has been deeply loved by Chinese people. With the continuous spread of milk tea culture, pearl milk tea in Japan, South Korea and even European and American countries in recent years has also quickly become popular. pearl milk tea

I believe everyone is familiar with pearl milk tea at all. Since it was introduced in Taiwan in the 1980s, the practice of making small balls from tapioca flour into milk tea has been deeply loved by Chinese people. With the continuous spread of milk tea culture, pearl milk tea in Japan, South Korea and even European and American countries in recent years has also quickly become popular.

When pearl milk tea first arrived in the United States, the local people seemed not interested in this product. Everyone was unfamiliar with cassava balls and dared not try it. However, with the punching and publicity of netizens on social platforms, everyone suddenly broke through the "psychological defense line" and tried this novel product. When drinking milk tea, you can also chew the cassava ball of QQ bomb. This wonderful experience has fascinated more and more Americans. Pearl milk tea has also become a favorite among young Americans.

Milk tea can be added with pearls, consumers like to drink so much when they can chew pearls, then coffee can also be put into pearls, it must be very popular! With this idea, Starbucks drinks R & D team can not sit still…But the coffee inside the cassava ball added QQ bomb is really a bit strange, so they set out to develop a "coffee burst bead", in the caramel coffee solution to add sodium alginate stir evenly, and then in a dripping way, the coffee solution drops in the calcium lactate solution, forming a grain of coffee pearl.

Different from traditional cassava balls, the coffee pearls made in this way can be crushed at one pinch, which can make you experience the pleasure of biting pearls when drinking coffee, and will not affect the taste of the drink. After the development of coffee poppers in 2019, coffee poppers have been sold in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, but the sales volume is average. The guests responded that the coffee pop beads were too sweet, and the frappuccino itself was also very sweet…

With Americans loving pearls so much in recent years, and with such a sweet tooth at the same time, caramel coffee pops should be able to try out in the U.S. market. Drawing on 19 years of experience in Asia, Starbucks recently introduced the same coffee pop to an iced Indian black tea latte and a cold espresso drink (coffee pop can only be served in cold drinks), and tested it only at two franchise stores in California and Washington state.

Starbucks near home out of coffee pop beads?! Immediately attracted the local people's punch card, everyone on the social platform to sun out these two pop beads drinks, but the comments are still average... Some netizens said I like pearl milk tea also like coffee, but coffee with coffee pop beads always feel wrong, and straw is too thin, can not speak pearls! Some netizens from the milk tea party said that this was completely different from the Boba Pearl. The taste was really bad. After the coffee liquid burst out, it was sticky... Some netizens from the coffee party said that the pop beads were not strong. They tasted sweet and salty, which affected the taste of the coffee... Of course, some netizens liked the taste of the coffee pop beads, but they also hoped to improve the taste of the coffee in the pop beads.

Em…I can only say that some things are inappropriate, they are inappropriate, and I reluctantly don't come ~

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