Despite the incredible taste and uniqueness of tiger milk tea, I want to say that milk tea with brown sugar is not ideal for drinking if you have been diagnosed with various health problems (especially diabetes). The reason is that the tiger milk tea recipe contains quite a lot of sugar. But this can be changed a little. After all, there are many more useful sweeteners. For example, you can use maple syrup. To make it thicker and create those incredible tiger stripes, just boil it a little. You can also resort to corn starch. These are more useful alternatives. Brown sugar milk tea gets its nickname "tiger stripes" from the way the syrup coats the inside of the glass, so make sure it's thick and nice. If you add milk first, they just drip off and disappear. (That's why brown sugar syrup can't be substituted for manuka honey—this ingredient shouldn't be heated too much, as it loses its health benefits.)