Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells

Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human... by prophesi on Monday December 23, 2024 @11:55AM (#42495775)

I will also say that loose leaf is an order of magnitude better tasting than bagged tea. The crush-tear-curl process of bagged tea will elicit a bitter brew from anything that isn't black tea, and lose a lot of its flavor. Not to mention they're likely using the leftover chaff from loose leaf production.

I like to show friends a properly brewed Dragonwell green tea and a bug-bitten oolong to convert them to the loose leaf way.

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Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human... by cogman10 on Monday December 23, 2024 @12:14PM (#42495912)

If you've not already gotten it, this is the next purchase I'd recommend [1]. Nothing better than instant hot water at the right temp :D. Doesn't take hardly any power to run either.

[1] https://www.zojirushi.com/app/product/cvjac

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Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human... by Suppafly on Monday December 23, 2024 @12:45PM (#42496146)

now you'll probably get some sort of micro-something coming from the non-stick coating inside that thing.

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Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human... by cogman10 on Monday December 23, 2024 @01:33PM (#42496555)

The inside is silicon. Plumbing might be plastic, hard to tell.

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