Daily intake, in numbers
This page compares intake with published evidence. It does not predict your personal disease risk.
Click a highlighted organ to read its approved evidence lines.
What your body accumulates
1 cup(s) of Fresh-made milk tea a day, for 1 straight years —
- Cumulative
- 34g
- Equivalent to
- ≈ 7 sugar cubes
- Annual reference
- 9125g
- Cumulative ÷ annual ref.
- 0×
Colour deepens logarithmically with cumulative amount (0.1–15× the annual reference), not damage; surface particles are a deterministic schematic (count follows the cumulative multiple — not lesions, no personal probability); highlights are visual anchors of approved evidence lines, not causation or diagnosis.
Sugary drinks
How far a cup of milk tea is from the WHO reference line.
Pick a product and count, or type grams directly. Unit conversion only — no health prediction.
This 1 cup(s) of Fresh-made milk tea provides about 34g of sugar
≈ 8 sugar cubes (worked example at 4.5 g per cube; the Shanghai test counted the 62 g maximum as ≈13 cubes)
136%Against the WHO further-reduction target (not a fixed limit) · 25g
| This 1 cup(s) of Fresh-made milk tea provides about 34g of sugar | 34g |
|---|---|
| 25g/day | 25g |
Assumes 2000 kcal/day total energy. WHO recommends free sugars below 10% of total energy, and further reduction below 5% for additional benefit; 25 g/day is a worked example, not a fixed legal limit.
The bar is the converted amount on this page; the dashed line is {reference}. Exceeding it does not mean disease, and staying below it is not a personal guarantee.
- 34 g is the 2017 average across 27 regular-sugar fresh-made milk teas — no specific brand; products labelled sugar-free have also tested positive for sugar.
- Drink volume is not the sugar amount, and one cup is not a whole day.
- 25 g/day is not a fixed limit for everyone (see the premise).
How to read this
- Read the sugars line on labels, add up the day's sources, and watch frequency rather than a single serving.
What the research says (population associations, not personal predictions)
one additional serving (≈250 ml) of sugar-sweetened beverage per day：+18%
- Outcome
- incidence of type-2 diabetes
- Comparison group
- compared with the lowest consumers
- Time horizon
- over each included cohort's follow-up
- Population
- adults in the included prospective cohorts
- Limits
- Observational research: a population-level association, not an individual probability and not proof of causation.
free-sugars intake (sugary foods and drinks)：WHO identifies free-sugars intake as the most common risk factor for dental caries; keeping it below 10% of energy lowers the risk.
- Outcome
- dental caries
- Comparison group
- people with lower free-sugars intake
- Time horizon
- long term
- Population
- general population
- Limits
- A population-level public-health association, not a personal caries probability; fluoride exposure and oral care also matter.
regular soft-drink consumption (sugar- or artificially-sweetened)：The TCLSIH prospective cohort in Tianjin found soft-drink drinkers had a higher risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
- Outcome
- non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Comparison group
- non/low soft-drink consumers
- Time horizon
- prospective follow-up
- Population
- Chinese adults (Tianjin)
- Limits
- Observational research: a population-level association, not an individual probability and not proof of causation; diet drinks showed the link too.
≈1 daily serving of sugar-sweetened beverages (top intake quartile)：+20%
- Outcome
- incident coronary heart disease
- Comparison group
- lowest quartile (<1 serving/month)
- Time horizon
- 22-year follow-up
- Population
- US Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (≈43,000 men)
- Limits
- Observational research: a population-level association, not an individual probability and not proof of causation.
Where the numbers come from
- 上海市消费者权益保护委员会2017-07-24 · 《奶茶比较试验》情况通报（2017-07-24：27 件正常甜度现制奶茶含糖均值 34g/杯、最高 62g/杯；51 件样品咖啡因均值 270mg/L、最高 828mg/L、最高一杯 428mg。通报原文已从官网下架且 Wayback 无存档，数值经新浪、搜狐、凤凰网等多家媒体 2017 年同期转述交叉核实；本链接为发布机构官网）
- WHO2015-03-04 · Guideline: sugars intake for adults and children（新闻稿）
- BMJ2015-07-21 · Imamura et al., prospective cohort meta-analysis（DOI 10.1136/bmj.h3576，经 Crossref 核实；bmj.com 拦截命令行访问）
- WHO2025-08-14 · Fact sheet: Sugars and dental caries（游离糖为龋齿最常见危险因素；页面 datePublished 经命令行核实 200）
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition2021 · Zhang S, et al. 软饮料与非酒精性脂肪肝，TCLSIH 前瞻性队列（DOI 10.1093/ajcn/nqaa380；PubMed 对命令行出反爬壳页，题录经检索核实）
- Circulation2012-03-12 · de Koning et al., HPFS 男性队列 125:1735-1741（ahajournals 拦截命令行访问 403，经 PubMed PMID 22412070 核实 200）