Make Your Own Colorful Fruit Boba Pearls with Natural Ingredients
Love bubble tea but want a healthier, homemade version? These colorful fruit boba pearls are made using fresh fruit juice and tapioca flour—no artificial coloring needed! With just a few simple ingredients, you can create vibrant, chewy pearls in a rainbow of natural flavors like mango, strawberry, dragon fruit, and more.
Perfect for bubble tea, desserts, or even as a fun kitchen project with kids, this easy recipe lets you control the sweetness, texture, and colors of your boba pearls—right from your own kitchen.
The more we drank boba pearls beverage – be it brown sugar boba pearls fresh milk or boba pearls with cheese tea drink, the more we get addicted to it. This got me thinking about how could we reinvent an ongoing trend? I come to think that is it possible that we infuse fruits into boba pearls? Well, let’s give it a go and try fresh fruits boba pearls!
Since the process of making a regular brown sugar boba pearls is simply using brown sugar as the liquid to activate the tapioca starch. So from there, we know that the formulation to boba pearls is simply
flavored liquid combine with tapioca starch and then braise them in its own flavored sweetened liquid.
By having that in mind, I begin working on how should I create the flavored liquid? And to raise the benchmark to another level, I thought let’s make chewy boba pearls with fruit bits in them!
Hence I come to think that I will need to make a fruit puree, also I will need to play around a little bit with the colors, so the drinks would look vibrant while refreshing! So I went on to around local traders market hunting for fruits that are suitable for its purpose.
Some of the fruits are delicious, but would not be able to make the boba pearls look vibrant. From my fruits shopping, I had come to pick red dragon fruits, orange flesh taro roots, green kiwi, and yellow kiwi.
p/s : I think we can even use vegetables, think cucumber!
Currently, around the globe is crazed with boba pearls drinks and it has become a global trend. People getting addicted to it, well in a happy way. The popularity of boba pearls has spread across Europe, Germany in particular and are now converting the young people across North America as well.
Currently, I do not think there is any manufacturer that is willing to produce them with real fresh fruits as it will be;
If it is going to happen, I believe plenty of coloring and addictive will be added.
But why wait? Now you start following my recipe, and simply make your own colorful fruity boba pearls at home!
Colorful and Fruity Boba Pearls Recipe could be the next Unicorn Boba Pearl Beverage! Previously I did a video on how to make tapioca boba pearls recipe at home and some have been telling me that their dough end up becoming too stick and could not work on the dough to roll them. So just recently I’ve got some extra time and thought that I should improve the recipe to make it failsafe, so anyone can make it at home with ease. Perhaps adding some cheese foam to it would be great too! (Cheese Tea Recipe here
Try These Fun and Fruity Boba Pearl Flavors
Use fresh strawberry puree for a sweet and slightly tangy flavor. Boil and strain the puree to get a smooth consistency before mixing with tapioca flour.
Blend ripe mangoes and strain the juice for a tropical, bright yellow boba. Adds a rich, fruity note that pairs well with milk tea or coconut milk.
Cook blueberries with a splash of water and strain out the juice. These pearls turn a beautiful purple-blue and have a mildly sweet flavor.
Pineapple juice gives a bold yellow color and a tangy twist. Great for fruit teas or iced soda drinks.
Red dragon fruit creates a stunning pink color. For a more subtle hue, use white dragon fruit instead.
Frequently Asked Questions About Fruit Boba Pearls
A: Yes, but choose 100% juice with no added sugar or pulp for the best consistency. Fresh juice gives brighter color and more flavor.
A: If too sticky, add a little more tapioca flour. If too dry, add a teaspoon of warm water or juice at a time while kneading.
A: Once cooked, they’re best eaten fresh within 4–6 hours. You can store uncooked pearls in the fridge for up to 24 hours, dusted with flour to prevent sticking.
A: Yes. Freeze them raw on a tray, then transfer to a ziplock bag. Boil straight from frozen when ready to use.
A: No. Tapioca flour is essential for the chewy, stretchy texture. Cornstarch or other flours won’t produce the same result.
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it's so delicious I recommend all of you taste it and enjoy.
I have a question about the flour that you use on your hands and your work space, is it also tapioca flour or is it regular flour?
It is tapioca flour
Wow THIS RECIPE IS AMAZING I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS THANK YOU ETHAN!
Can you freeze the boba pearls before boiling them? I want to prepare them ahead of time like 3 days.
Yes you can, freeze them and use any amount that you need.
To boil the frozen boba pearls,
Make sure the water is at full boil before dropping them in and stir to prevent them from sticking.
Otherwise they will break apart easily.
Must these be braised or can these pearls be used as is?
Hey Amanda,
They must be braised, else they are still raw.
What is the difference between cooking and braising? If we have done the cooking step, do we also need to braise?
Yes, also need to braise.
The first cooking process is just to thoroughly cook them. They are still very tough then, braised them to have more flavors in and also make them soften to a better consistency
When I added all of the ingredients to the pot I stirred and stirred but it never thickened. I made mine with mangos, any tips to resolve this?
Hey Fraya,
I think there is two reason;
1) the heat is not high enough. (Higher heat = faster the dough thickened, but also too thick, we cannot work on the dough).
2) too much water, try reducing the water content, cause I had never try with Mango before.
Hope this helps!
Delicious and charming, made strawberry pearls, they were great.
How long until it expires?
cooked boba, I think 5 days +/-
uncooked boba, you can freeze it and they can probably last 12 months.
Do you have to braise the boba?
Yes, you have to braised the boba
Hi does the boba pop when you eat it?
Nope, this is not popping boba.
That is another type of boba.
Can you cook the boba in water for Longer instead of braising in fruit purée or is this a specifically necessary step? Thank you!
Hey Rose,
Yes you can, but all the flavor (in this case, fruits) will leach out into the water.
Braising them in fruit puree is meant to fortify the fruit's flavor.
How long does it take the mixture to form into a dough-like consistency? Mine has been liquid for a long time.
Hey Alexa,
the time for the mixture to form a dough depends on the heat.
Basically, the higher the heat = the faster the mixture becomes dough.
But also if overcooked, then the dough would end up too hard and difficult to work with.
Hi! I didn't see a measurement of the fruit. It only tells the measurement of the tapioca flour.