A drink to your health! The healthiest way to enjoy a cup of tea.
Have a nice cuppaAccording to the
BBC (and if I would trust any source on tea, it most assuredly would be the BBC) ”The traditional way of making tea in a pot is healthier than dunking a bag in a cup, according to scientists.”
By
traditional, they mean a five-minute steeping time which is normal for black teas such as Earl Grey and English Breakfast.
A quick dunk, such as you might do with a tea bag, just doesn’t give the leaves enough time to impart their antioxidants to the tea water.
If five minutes is good, is ten minutes better?Not when it comes to tea, m’dear. You don’t get more antioxidants after five minutes and, in fact, it just makes your tea taste bitter.
clipped from: almostvegetarian.blogspot.com