Taro is a root vegetable that is commonly used in Asian, Caribbean, African, and Pacific Islander cuisines. It has a light, slightly sweet, and nutty flavor that goes well with milk, sugar, and tea used to make milk tea. The taste is comparable to sweet potato but with a lighter flavor profile and subtle vanilla undertones. Taro bubble tea itself is sweet and tastes a bit like vanilla, with a pinch of nuttiness. The flavor of taro milk tea depends on the bubble tea shop making it, and it can have different flavors added to it that range from extremely sugary to being more mellow, creamy, and slightly grainy in texture while tasting like an amalgamation of assorted nuts with vanilla.