The health benefits of tea

For some time we’ve know that tea has nutritional value. New research shows that tea can eliminate unhealthy elements in your water, reports Amudalat Ajasa for the Washington Post. Tea leaves have some phenomenal powers.

As it turns out, tea leaves perform two functions. They deliver flavor to your water and they remove the dangerous heavy metals from your water.

Teal leaves absorb can eliminate lead, cadmium and arsenic in your water, absorbing these heavy metals. The leaves trap these metals. When you remove the leaves or the tea bag from your cup of tea, you also remove these metals.

The researchers looked at the ways different types of tea behaved, how long you needed to brew the tea to remove heavy metals and how to brew the tea. They looked at tea in bags and loose tea.

To remove as much heavy metal as possible, steep your tea for as long as possible. A five-minute steep removed about 15 percent of lead, no matter the type of tea. If you steeped your tea overnight, to make iced tea, you remove much more lead.

Whether the tea is black, green or herbal, the tea leaves absorb the heavy metals. Only chamomile flowers did not remove the metals successfully.

Whole tea leaves do not do as good a job of removing the metals in your water as ground leaves. The ground leaves have more surface area for the metals to latch onto.

The most effective tea bags for eliminating metals are made of cellulose, which is biodegradable. Tea bags made of nylon did not work well and also release microplastics into your water. Cotton tea bags also did not perform well.

It’s hard to assess the health implications of drinking tea, but it is possible that tea drinkers experience fewer sicknesses related to heavy metal exposure.

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