Bubble Tea Health Facts: Sugar, Calories, Safer Orders
What Your Bubble Tea Shop Won’t Tell You Look, I need to come clean about something: I’m writing this with an empty boba cup sitting on my desk. The irony is not lost on me. But here’s the thing I spent way too long thinking bubble tea was somehow better than, say, a milkshake, just […]
Milk Tea Calories: Ranges, Toppings, and Easy Swaps
The Milk Tea Calorie Trap Most People Miss Look, I need to tell you something that hurt my feelings when I first learned it: that brown sugar milk tea with cheese foam I was treating myself to “just because it’s Tuesday”? 660 calories. That’s basically a meal. In a cup. That I was drinking after […]
Hard Boba Centers: Causes, Fixes, And Cook Times
Why Your Boba Pearls Stay Hard (And How to Actually Fix It) Look, I’ve been there. You follow what you think are the instructions, you’re feeling optimistic, you take that first sip and crunch. Starchy, sad little rocks pretending to be boba. It’s devastating. Truly. Here’s the thing: hard boba isn’t a “you” problem. It’s […]
Cooking Fish Without Losing Omega-3s and Vitamins
Are You Accidentally Cooking the Good Stuff Out of Your Fish? Look, I’m not here to make you paranoid about dinner. But if you’re buying salmon or trout specifically for the omega-3s (hi, that’s me, staring at the seafood counter like it owes me better brain function), it’s worth knowing that how you cook it […]
Smoked Fish vs Fresh Fish: Nutrition, Sodium, Safety
Smoked vs Fresh Fish: What Those Labels Aren’t Telling You Look, I love smoked salmon. Like, love love. The kind of love where I’ll spend way too much on a package at the grocery store and then stand at my kitchen counter eating it straight off the wrapper like some sort of fancy goblin. But […]