Sweetness
When I’m asked if I want to ‘customise my sweetness level’, what does this mean?
One of the great things about Chatime, is that you have the option to reduce the amount of sugar that’s added to your flavoured drink. So you can choose to have the standard recipe, or go for half that amount of sugar, 30% sugar or no sugar at all.
You can customise the sweetness levels on all our flavoured teas, except for Guava flavoured and some limited edition drinks, as there is no additional sugar in those recipes. It’s sweet enough on its own!
What sort of sugar is used in Chatime drinks?
Our flavoured syrups are derived from real fruits and therefore naturally contain fruit sugars. The additional sugar used in Chatime drinks is a Fructose syrup. The amount of fructose added varies for each tea, as some flavours are naturally sweeter than others.
How many grams of sugar are there in typical Chatime tea?
The amount of total sugar used in our teas varies according to the ingredients used. If you would like to see a nutritional breakdown of our teas (including the grams of total sugar used), you can find out everything you want to know on our menu.
To give you a rough idea, our standard teas contain 28g of added fructose which is an equivalent of 361kJ. ** Based on average of 1oz sugar in teas.
And to put it into context, an average Chatime tea has the same amount of added sugar as a full-fat flavoured milk or an energy drink (as per Sugar Content of Popular Drinks study.)
But if that’s too sweet for your tastebuds, you can choose to reduce the amount of added sugar in your flavoured Chatime. Just ask your T-rista for half sugar, 30% sugar or no sugar at all, and they will customise your beverage for you. We’re sure, whichever option you go for, it will still taste tea-rrific.
If I order 'regular', ‘half sugar’, ‘30% sugar’ or 'no sugar’, what does this mean?
When a T-rista asks if you would like ‘regular sugar’, this refers to the amount of added sugar in the original recipe. The standard recipe is optimised for flavour and may include some added sugar.
When you order half sugar, the amount of additional sugar is reduced by half. If you order 30% sugar, only a third of the additional sugar in the original recipe will be used. If you ask for no sugar, our T-ristas won’t add any additional sugar to your Chatime at all.
