Even if they say that it is safe enough to soak your plastic tea bags in HOT water, be wary! Molecules from these materials can still break down and leach out especially when exposed to boiling liquid. It will always be harmful to our body because it is not natural! Some tea bags unfortunately are made from these so called “food grade nylon or polyethylene terephthalate (PET)”. If your tea is really a superior blend then you definitely do not need to jazz it up with a host of artificial ingredients and flavors. You may think you are purchasing better products but the truth is they are just covering for the low-quality and poor taste of their tea. Many tea brands think they can get away with the “natural flavors”. Twining’s Chai Tea- Black Tea, Natural Chai, Cinnamon and Ginger flavoring with other natural flavors, cardamom, and clove.Tea Forte Crimson Nectar Tea: Hibiscus, Rosehip, Apple Pieces, Orange Peels, Cinnamon, and Natural Flavoring.Tazo Zen Green Tea: Green teas, Lemon Verbena Leaves, Spearmint leaves, lemongrass and natural flavors.Bigelow Perfectly Peach- Perfect peach is composed of rose hips, hibicscus, peaches, natural and artificial peach flavour – in the form of soy lecithin-, spices, orange and lemon peels, apples, strawberry leaves and roasted chicory.Celestial Seasoning Group Herbal Tea: Chamonile, natural grape flavor with added natural flavors, lemongrass, tila flowers, spearmint, natural sweetener (a stevia extract, soy lecithin), blackberry leaves, orange blossoms, hawthorn, Vitamin C (in the form of ascorbic acid), including rosebuds.Lipton Black Tea Vanilla Caramel: Black tea with caramel powder, modified corn starch and natural flavoring.Teavana Earl Grey White: White tea, marigold petals with artificial flavoring.Trader Joe’s Black Mango Tea- Black Tea with natural mango flavour and others contains the soy product, Lecithin including blackberry leaves, Cladual petals and hibiscus.It could come from a stone in the ground and you’d never know.” They want us to think that we are buying something clean and pure but actually, we are not! As what Ahmed Rahman of Numi Tea said, “You can breakdown anything that is found in nature and if it ends up tasting like the flavor you wish to use – you can add it to any product and call it NATURAL FLAVOR on the ingredient label. It just means that Tea companies are hiding the inferiority of their product from consumers. Ever wonder what that really means? Mostly, nothing. When steeped in hot water these toxins go directly onto your cup of hot brew. Bad news is-most of them are not washed before being packed. Modern tea bags are filled with pesticides, toxins, artificial ingredients, added flavors and GMOs.Īll of the modern day teas are conveniently placed in small easy to use bags. Sounds pretty simple, right? Modern day tea though, is not as similar as the health giving brews of the ancients. The process for preparation then was very similar to how we do it now: the leaves of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis in either in powder or loose leaves were placed in warm water and left to infuse. Tea drinking dates back for thousands of years as Chinese royalty drank this liquid for good health. Many tea varieties can aid our digestion, metabolism and help prevent disease. For many of us, tea is a daily habit, it is sacred and promotes good health.
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