Food trends highlight pearl-shaped items like caviar, finger limes, and boba, adding playful textures and flavours to culinary experiences worldwide.

Add lychee syrup or lychee jellies to enhance the lychee flavor. Try adding boba pearls for a sparkling take on bubble tea. Add a little cold foam cream to make it into a lychee cream soda.

Unlike tapioca-based pearls, popping boba are made with fruit juice ... There's no limit when it comes to what can be jellied ...

Preparing boba starts with placing the hard pearls in boiling water. This process breaks the hydrogen bonds that are holding the amylose molecules together. The glucose units in amylose can now ...