HEYTEA Guava Green Grape

The HEYTEA Guava Green Grape is $10.49 and 190 calories, and it is the drink to order when you want something light that is not just another grape tea. Red guava and fresh green grapes over jasmine tea, with no dairy anywhere in it.

Guava is an unusual choice for a bubble tea shop and it is the reason this one stands apart. Red guava is floral in a way that green grape is not, with a slightly musky sweetness and a grainy quality from the flesh that carries through into the cup. Against the sharper grape it gives the drink two distinct notes rather than one.

The colour is worth mentioning. Guava turns the base a soft pink that sits against the pale green of the grape, and because both fruits go in as pulp rather than syrup, the shade shifts slightly from cup to cup depending on the fruit that day.

At 39g of sugar it matches the Cloud Crisp Grape, though it drinks lighter because there is no cheese cloud adding weight and fat. The calorie count of 190 makes it one of the leaner options in the range, second only to the Kale Boost Tea.

No allergens are declared, which puts it alongside the Crisp Grape Boom as one of the safe orders for a mixed group. That is a short list on the HEYTEA menu, where milk turns up in most of the popular drinks.

It comes in one size, so there is no upgrade decision. The jasmine tea underneath can be swapped out for the caffeine-free base if you are ordering late in the day, and the fruit carries the drink well enough that you do not miss it.

Guava is seasonal in a way grapes are not, so this is the drink on the menu most likely to taste different in March than it does in September. When the fruit is at its best the musky note comes forward and the pink deepens. Out of season it drinks closer to a plain grape tea with a floral edge, which is still pleasant but less distinctive.

For the plain grape version at a lower price, the Crisp Grape Boom is $9.99. If you want the lightest thing on the fruit tea list, the Kale Boost Tea comes in at 165 calories.