Tea Bags Health Risks?
Its a tiresome myth that I oft hear peddled by the organic lobbyists that bleach in teabags health risks are many and horrifying. I’ve heard everything from burned throats to cancerous growths. Stomach ulcers and sudden and painful death.
Although it’s true that most tea bags go through a process of bleaching during their manufacture they do not retain any bleach in the tea bag when it comes to brewing your next cup of tea.
Far worse than bleach in teabags health risks is the sorry state of your taste buds upon their assault by the papery tainted aroma of your tea. Green tea especially suffers from being bagged due to its delicate taste and you’ll often find cheaper teas will put floor sweepings and other low quality leaf crud into their bags.
That isn’t to say all bagged tea is bad – I myself drink bagged tea 50% of the time. Sheer convinience demands it in my busy life. At the office I drink Yorkshire tea by the bag and quite adequate it is too. If you’re to get bagged tea then make sure its a quality tea. For the office I’d recommend Clipper Fairtrade or Yorkshire.
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Some facts:
1. Small amount of dioxin were found in bleached teabags
2. Any amount of dioxin may cause a cancer
3. Actual connection between using teabags and cancer has not been estabished so far.