Boba Final Project
For my final project, I have chosen boba. Boba, also known as bubble tea, is a popular East Asian dessert drink, traditionally consisting of green or black tea with milk and tapioca pearls(1). The pearls are traditionally composed of three basic ingredients: tapioca starch, brown sugar and water, which are then rolled into small balls & boiled until they achieve a gummy, or “QQ” texture (1,2). The name “boba” is a reference to the Hong Kong actress and sex symbol, Amy Yip, with the black spherical pearls being slang for breasts (3). Originating from Taiwan in the 1980s, today it is a worldwide phenomenon, found from Brazil to Berlin (2). The bubble tea industry is expected to grow by almost 2 billion to a whopping 4.3 billion by 2027 (3).
