Mixue USA Fruit Drinks [2026]
By Jeanne Yacoubou, MS
Mixue Bingcheng, a global ice cream and tea shop with over 46,000 stores – surpassing both McDonald’s and Starbucks in store units– opened in 1997 in China and spread throughout Southeast Asia, Australia, Philippines, and Japan. In December 2025, the first Mixue stores opened in New York City and Los Angeles. American dessert and tea lovers can also soon expect to find Mixue Bingcheng, which means “sweet snow palace” in Chinese, in other major US cities.
Known for low prices and real fruit pieces in many of its beverages, Mixue offers, at the time of writing, its signature soft serve ice cream for $1.19 and a wide variety of sundaes, milk teas, and fruit drinks ranging from $1.99 to $5.69 each.
The Mixue website states, “The Mixue menu USA has some great options for people who do not drink dairy. You can get fruit teas, lemon teas, iced green tea, and iced black tea … On the (other) hand the ice cream items at Mixue menu USA are made with dairy.”
We spoke with Mixue employees at both NYC and LA locations in May 2025 to find out if any of their menu offerings are non-dairy. They have:
- Fresh Lemonade
- Lemon Iced Tea
- Punched Fresh Orange Tea
Readers should note that not all of Mixue’s fruit drinks listed on its website or on in-store menus are non-dairy. For example, the Strawberry Bobo Tea, Mango Pomelo Taro Fruit Tea, and the Taro Ball Grape Tea are not non-dairy. Mixue employees told us that the taro and boba (also known as bobo) balls, as well as the pudding in these drinks, contain dairy.
For readers unfamiliar with the term, boba refers to chewy tapioca balls. When added to milk tea, the drink is called bubble tea. Boba pearls consist of brown sugar, tapioca starch, water, and sometimes sweet potato starch. At Mixue, dairy is also present.
We asked Mixue employees if they used cane sugar, which, unlike beet sugar, may have been whitened through a cow bone char filter, in their beverages and desserts. They didn’t know the type of sugar in Mixue menu options. However, they added that patrons could ask for no sugar in the Lemon Iced Tea.
Besides the three Mixue beverages identified above, all the other menu items at Mixue contain dairy. The soft serve ice cream is made with “whole milk powder” according to Mixue employees. One worker at the 8th Avenue location in New York told us that there is a “low chance of milk droplets” contaminating tea-based fruit drinks because several drink bases come out of a common dispenser unit.
We asked Mixue employees if plant-based milk was an option in any of their beverages or desserts. Without hesitation, employees at both locations told us no. While there may be coconut milk in some beverages, it is always served in combination with dairy. Coconut milk cannot be substituted for dairy in any menu items.
If you’re stopping by Mixue for a fruit-based beverage, please inquire about the ingredients before ordering to be 100% sure. When we asked Mixue employees to check the container because they weren’t sure about ingredient sources, they gladly did so and read from the label while on the phone with us even in a busy store.
The VRG also recommends that you request plant-based milk options at Mixue if you’re ever there. When a company hears often enough from its customers that they want vegan alternatives, that company is more likely to offer them in the future.
For more restaurant information, see
https://www.vrg.org/fastfoodinfo.php
https://www.vrg.org/restaurant/index.php
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