BUBLUV makes a ready-to-drink healthy boba alternative. 

BUBLUV is a New York based start up that makes the first ready-to-drink healthier bubble tea alternative with up to 98% less sugar and 80% fewer calories than traditional bubble tea.

Founder Diana Ark Chen fell in love with bubble tea in college but stopped drinking it completely once she found out that 1 16oz cup of her favorite flavor had over 400 calories and 50g of sugar (the equivalent of drinking 3 cans of Coke and over 12 packs of sugar). She missed boba so much that she created her own better-for-you version so she didn't have to sacrifice her healthy lifestyle for a taste of boba. 

BUBLUV Bubble Tea with Tapioca Jelly Pearls is the first ready-to-drink better-for-you boba alternative with no added sugar, no artificial ingredients, and less than 50 calories per bottle. Conveniently store in your fridge or pantry and satisfy your boba craving whenever it strikes - no prep or clean-up needed. 

BUBLUV Bubble Tea is a lightly sweet and refreshing take on traditional boba tea built for everyday drinking. It's a fun and delicious way to support your health because it's a source of antioxidants from loose leaf tea and has jelly-like pearls for fun chew. The boba teas are keto-friendly and gluten free.

Diana Ark Chen

BUBLUV

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I think the biggest thing here would be refining the tea flavors.

I originally discovered this brand through the founder's amazing content on social media! While I wanted to love this product, (I mean, helloooo?! Healthy boba?!) it fell flat for me. The tea lacked flavor and the pearls reminded me of a less dense crystal boba, not to mention that there weren't many pearls in the bottle. 

Personally, I'll stick to my occasional boba milk tea.

The flavors need to be at least as strong as what’s found in other no sugar tea brands, like Bai. Also, I’d probably prefer Konjac jelly over the hybrid boba.

As expected, konjac and tapioca mixed together don’t make very good boba pearls. What was most surprising was how flavorless the teas were themselves. The passion fruit one was okay. The matcha was just watery generic green tea. And the black tea was like the LaCroix of milk teas, barely there. I’ll be continuing to make my own tea at home using allulose as my sweetener and adding a small serving of tapioca boba cooked on the stove for my cheat days.

The flavors they were so watered down it was like drinking water with a tad bit of flavoring in it and it was gross. All of the Boba should be black and it was almost like I was drinking aloe vera drink. The tapioca pearls looked just like aloe vera chunks.

I don't believe the tea is actually milk tea I think it's just water and something flavored in it. I think they're trying to push for low calories but I've had low calorie boba tea before and they didn't taste fake. There is no refreshing smell and all of the other flavors except for the Black Milk Tea are awful it's like I couldn't even get through two sipsand the tapioca pearls they're white except for in the black milk tea. That flavors actually okay it's just very very watered down and not very refreshing. I would never purchase this again and if I did the only one that I could probably stomach drinking is the one I said which is called Black Milk Tea. I wouldn't waste your money the ones that are at Five Below are way better and I believe they're actually made with milk tea not water. The only thing that I liked about this six pack with the different flavors is that it gives you the Boba straws which is cool. I'm keeping the straws and throwing the drinks out.

I tried the passion fruit oolong guava . I loved it first time ever having Tapioca pearls.
So I did put a little twist to it I added some raspberry flavor to it and it was awesome.
This would be great for a brunch  drink .

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