Compared with coffee and milk tea, which one is a healthier drink?

Coffee or milk tea, which one do you like?

Both of these drinks are called "happy water" by everyone. If you don't drink something during work, it's like having a drug addiction attack, making you feel uncomfortable all over, listless, and depressed.

Why do I still feel sleepy after drinking coffee? You can drink coffee if you want to be energetic, but drinking coffee may not necessarily make you energetic.

What makes you sleepy is actually the caffeine in the coffee.

But if you still feel drowsy after a cup of coffee, it may be related to these factors.

First of all, if your DNA carries a certain type of CYP1A2 or PDSS2 genotype, they will encode special metabolic enzymes that make adenosine receptors insensitive to caffeine or metabolize it faster.

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People with these genotypes are naturally immune to caffeine: caffeine either doesn't fit into the lock of the adenosine receptors at all, or, even if it does, it quickly breaks apart and makes way for adenosine.

For people with this condition, drinking a lot of coffee before bed will not affect their sleep. In addition to your physical condition, drinking too much coffee is the culprit that makes you insensitive to coffee.

Some people are born sensitive to caffeine, but due to long-term and excessive caffeine intake, they develop tolerance.

When you drink a lot of coffee, because caffeine always occupies the adenosine receptors, the human body can only grow more adenosine receptors to satisfy the adenosine that cannot compete with caffeine, making you sleepy again.

The original dose of coffee starts to no longer work, so you have to have another cup, and eventually you become addicted to coffee.

After becoming addicted to coffee, excessive caffeine may cause symptoms such as palpitations and diarrhea. Therefore, it is best for normal people not to consume more than three cups of American coffee a day.

In addition to drinking too much, drinking at the wrong time can also make caffeine ineffective. When adenosine and adenosine receptors have already bound together, no matter how much caffeine you drink, you can only watch from the sidelines.

So, if you want coffee to work, don't start drinking it when you feel sleepy.

Milk tea can make you happy or make you depressed. Milk tea is the top afternoon tea.

Meituan released a report in 2021, pointing out that orders for takeout milk tea have exceeded coffee and are approaching those for Coke.

After "The first cup of milk tea in autumn" became a hot topic, the 24-hour orders on the food delivery platform reached the highest level of the year.

I have to sigh, Chinese people really love drinking milk tea.

But many people may not know that milk tea is actually a Chinese invention.

With the unification of the Sui and Tang dynasties, tea from the Central Plains farming culture met milk from the northern nomadic culture, and drinking a mixture of milk and tea gradually became a new fashion at the time.

It’s just that sugar was not easy to come by at that time, so everyone drank salty milk tea.

Later, after it was introduced to Europe, the locals put cane sugar into milk tea to improve the taste, and sweet milk tea was born.

This change can be said to have directly affected the fate of milk tea, allowing it to become popular again in the course of history and still be favored by generations today.

But it also makes it a worrying drink.

Even if you choose sugar-free or low-sugar milk tea, the sugar content in milk tea is still considerable, not to mention the caffeine.

Many people think that when they are in a bad mood, drinking some sweet milk tea will make them happy.

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The "Summary of Comparative Test Results of Tea Beverages (Milk Tea) in 2017" released by the Shanghai Consumer Protection Committee divides 51 popular milk teas on the market into three categories: sugar-free, normal sugar, and milk-covered, and calculates the average calories of each category. Taking a 600ml cup of milk tea as the standard:

Sugar-free, calories 287 kcal

Normal sugar, calories 393 kcal

Milk cap, calories 564 kcal

Not vivid enough?

1 cup of sugar-free milk tea ≈ 1.6 bottles of Star Mocha coffee/2.5 bowls of rice/270 grams of beef

1 cup of normal sugar milk tea ≈ 2.2 bottles of a certain star bottled mocha coffee/3.4 bowls of rice/370 grams of beef

1 cup of milk tea with milk cap ≈ 3.2 bottles of a certain star bottled mocha coffee/4.9 bowls of rice/530 grams of beef

In addition to obesity and diabetes, you may never imagine that high-sugar drinks are also related to the occurrence of cancer.

It is true that sugar can stimulate the brain to secrete dopamine and produce pleasure.

But it also follows diminishing marginal utility: for the same amount of sugar we consume, we get less and less pleasure.

Therefore, in order to feel satisfied, we want to consume more sugar.

The researchers also found that the combination of caffeine and sugar made people more likely to fall into depression than consuming either alone.

This is because when caffeine is combined with sugar, it causes blood sugar fluctuations, which can put stress on the brain.

Sugar itself is also a major killer that disrupts mood.

A 2017 study showed that a high-sugar diet can increase the likelihood of sudden mood disorders in men and cyclical mood disorders in both men and women.

Sugar is closely related to inflammation in the body, which often leads to depression and tension.

And sugar is more addictive than caffeine.

When scientists conducted an experiment on mice, asking them to choose between water with saccharin added and caffeine injected into their veins, they found that sugar won out.

Even when the caffeine content was increased to almost toxic levels, the mice still preferred sugar.

Therefore, sugar is known as a "legal drug".

In fact, human ancestors did not have the habit of consuming refined sugars (such as sucrose). During the process of evolution, the human body's sweet taste receptors have not yet adapted to high concentrations of sweeteners. Therefore, when a large amount of sugar-rich food appears, it will send abnormal reward signals to the brain, causing the original self-control mechanism to lose control, and people will become addicted to sugar.

This can also explain why the more you drink milk tea, the more you can't stop. Once you get used to it, you will feel very uncomfortable if you don't drink it one day.

Not only does it make you fat, but quitting sugar is just as difficult as quitting caffeine.

Looking at it this way, the milk tea in my hand doesn’t seem so fragrant anymore.

Coffee and milk tea, which one is more likely to make you lose sleep? Since both contain caffeine, which one is more likely to make you lose sleep?

When drinking coffee, the caffeine in it is quickly and completely absorbed in the stomach and intestines after oral administration, reaching peak concentration within half a hour to an hour, maintaining the peak excitement state for about 2 hours, and entering the half-life in 5 to 8 hours.

The tea base of milk tea contains "theanine", which can naturally make people happy, inhibit the excessive stimulation caused by caffeine, and prolong its stay in the body.

In this comparison, although the caffeine content in milk tea is higher than that in coffee, it is not as effective as coffee in refreshing in a short period of time. Coffee is like a strong medicine, the refreshing effect comes and goes quickly; while milk tea, although it takes a long time to take effect, is long-lasting and gentle, with endless aftereffect.

But whether drinking coffee or milk tea is more likely to cause insomnia cannot be generalized. As mentioned above, everyone has different physical constitutions, so the reactions after drinking coffee and milk tea are also different.

If you are not sensitive to caffeine, the sugar in milk tea will make you sleepy. A cup of unsweetened Americano or black coffee will not only help you stay awake, but also prevent you from insomnia.

It is recommended that healthy adults consume no more than 200 mg of caffeine at a time, otherwise it can easily cause excitement, irritability, insomnia, and even tachycardia and arrhythmia.

Not only that, milk tea is also very high in calories. Even if you order it sugar-free, the sugar content of some milk teas is still 3.3~5g/100ml. Moreover, some milk teas may also contain creamer and other substances, which may cause high trans fat content.

Source: Chongqing Tianji Network Co., Ltd.

This article is compiled from: Tencent Medical Dictionary, Jiankan Psychology, Hardcore Bulletin Board

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