Are Bubble Tea Pearls Safe? We Asked a Doctor for the Facts

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Are Bubble Tea Pearls Safe? We Asked a Doctor for the Facts
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Here's what you need to know *before* ordering this trendy drink.

, wasn't able to eat, and had serious stomach pain. A CT scan revealed about 100 "unusual spherical shadows" in the girl's abdomen. Those spheres were undigested bubble tea pearls, her doctors supposedly said.The girl claimed that she drank only one bubble tea five days earlier, but her doctors said she would have needed to consume much more than that to have those symptoms.

Bubble tea pearls, or boba pearls, are usually made out of tapioca, a starch extracted from the roots of cassava plants. So here's where things start not adding up. Doctors here in the US who looked into the case said that tapioca and other ingredients typically found in bubble tea pearls wouldn't show up on an X-ray or CT scan. There had to be something unusual in the pearls the girl consumed for them to show on the scan.

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