HEYTEA Jasmine Latte (Large Cup)

The HEYTEA Jasmine Latte (Large Cup) is $9.99 and 210 calories, and it is the large-format version of the jasmine and milk build sold as a separate menu line rather than as a size option. Newly jasmine green tea with real milk, no artificial flavour.

The naming is confusing and worth explaining. This appears on the menu as its own item rather than as a size of the Jasmine Milk Tea, which is why it has its own price and its own listing. The recipe is the same idea in a bigger cup, and the numbers reflect it: 210 calories against 220 for the regular line, with 20g of sugar against 23g.

Those figures are worth a second look. The large cup carries fewer calories and less sugar than the regular Jasmine Milk Tea, which happens because the ratio here leans further towards milk and tea and away from syrup. If you are drinking jasmine milk tea regularly and want more volume without more sugar, this is the better line to order.

Flavour is the same clean jasmine against dairy. Floral rather than perfumed, with the tea holding position rather than getting buried, and the same 8g of protein from real milk that the regular version carries. Nothing about the taste changes with the size; it is simply more of it.

Latte in the name means milk rather than espresso. There is no coffee anywhere in this drink and no coffee anywhere on the HEYTEA menu, which trips people up who read the word and expect a cafe drink.

At $9.99 it sits above the $8.49 regular, and given the larger volume and lower sugar it is the better value of the two.

The larger volume changes how it behaves in the cup as well. More liquid against the same ice means slower dilution at the start and faster once the ice gives way, so this one is better drunk steadily than nursed. Anyone who leaves a drink on a desk for an hour will get more out of the regular size.

For the standard size, the Jasmine Milk Tea is the direct comparison. For the same jasmine with no milk at all, the Jasmine Tea is $5.49 and 70 calories.