Why do straws have to have a pointed end?

Straws have long been a familiar item in modern life. Straws come in many colors, shapes, and sizes, but most are designed with one end cut flat and the other end tapered.

Especially for those who "love" milk tea, the large straw with a pointed tip has become a familiar image. But why do people design straws to have a pointed tip?

Normally, milk tea and drinks will be contained in plastic cups and have a plastic film stamped on the surface of the cup to ensure that the drink does not spill out. Therefore, the pointed tip of the straw will make it easier to insert the straw through the plastic wrap.

Straws come in many styles, sizes and colors.

But the pointed end of the straw doesn’t just have that. In fact, drinks that don’t have tapioca pearls or toppings in the form of beads or cubes inside can be completely served with a straw that has both ends cut flat.

But with drinks containing tapioca pearls and other toppings that sink to the bottom, we will always be given a straw with a pointed tip. The reason is that the pointed tip on the straw is actually designed so that we can easily suck up both the water and tapioca pearls and toppings in the cup without using supporting tools such as spoons, forks, and without having to tear off the film covering the surface of the cup.

The straw is designed with a tapered end.

Specifically, the beveled tip has been calculated to have a cross-section suitable for the size of tapioca pearls or other hard toppings.

Sharpening the tip of the straw will help tapioca pearls or toppings that have sunk to the bottom to pass through that gap more easily without having to lift the straw up when using it.

An Nguyen

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