Unlike tapioca-based pearls, popping boba are made with fruit juice that's shaped via a spherification process involving sodium alginate and calcium lactate. Flavors include mango, green tea ...

Popping boba is fruity and filled with a little burst of liquid, while black boba is chewy and thick. Black boba is made with tapioca, from the cassava root, and mixed with starch and brown sugar ...

If you'd prefer clear boba balls, skip the cocoa powder and instead use 100 grams of tapioca flour. If you want blue balls, swap the cocoa out for butterfly pea powder in the same amount, or do ...

Before we went gaga for frozen yogurt and cupcakes, there was boba. This Asian-inspired drink comes in a variety of flavors and is packed with chewy, mouth-watering tapioca pearls.

What makes Mochi Fresh’s boba so special Mochi Fresh’s boba — also called tapioca pearls — is “softer and chewier” than the cooked premade black pearls that most bubble tea shops serve.

Tapioca balls and boba flavors have appeared in several snack categories, including cookies, ice cream, hard candy, mochi, nougats, grain snacks, and even seaweed snacks, Harper noted.

Ever since the tapioca milk tea craze hit Japan, the thirst for boba balls has grown to include weird and wonderful creations like tapioca beer, bubble tea ramen and boba ice cream bars. Now it’s time ...

Boba tea, or, bubble tea, is on menus at about half a dozen locations in Rochester. The drink is distinguished by pearls of chewy tapioca.