Cofftea said 2010-08-23 19:55:41 -0400

Bottled Tea: Health or Hype?

Art of Tea posted this WebMD article on Facebook. Pretty interesting.

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20100823/bottled-tea-health-or-hype

13 Replies

Cloudwalker Teas said 2010-08-23 22:14:56 -0400

I saw this in the paper today too. Just one more reason to brew our own!

Pithy said 2010-08-23 22:34:56 -0400

I thought this was common knowledge?

TeaParT said 2010-08-24 14:45:49 -0400

lifehacker had a link to the press release behind this at:

http://tinyurl.com/2bo6m5w

Do a search on tea while you are at the American Chemical Society http://ACS.org for information about some other interesting tea-related studies such as (green tea & glaucoma) or (chamomile & diabetes), etc.

Jade Teapot said 2010-08-24 15:59:37 -0400

This is not too a big suprize to me. they use the cheap tea to bottle. The tea supplier I was talking to before I closed kept wanting me to purchase by the ton at $1000 a ton for what he called commercial grade green and black tea.

http://friendii.en.alibaba.com/product/321422430-209342467/5_grade_keemun_black_tea.html

this one is even less 1.28 per kg (2.2 lb)

ZeusABJ said 2010-08-25 00:00:26 -0400

Lifehacker had a similar article today:

http://lifehacker.com/5620475/a-home+brewed-cup-of-tea-has-20-times-the-healthy-stuff-of-most-bottled-teas

Gingko (manager of Life in Teacup) said 2010-08-26 08:52:24 -0400

I had never thought of it until recently – people in my family, including me, have never thought of bottled tea as a tea beverage (although it is indeed tea). And this is the bottled tea I usually drink :D
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tjz7-dt8PhM/S-h6d1bpq5I/AAAAAAAABDQ/v46k1RUDFTQ/s400/%E4%BA%91%E5%8D%97%E7%BA%A2%E7%BB%BF%E6%97%85%E8%A1%8C%E7%93%B6.JPG

I do believe healthy or not is all relative. Bottled tea is by far not as healthy as freshly home brewed tea. But on the other hand, it’s probably much healthier than most other bottled beverage. I would be glad to see more young people drinking low-sugar (hopefully unsweetened) bottled tea rather than sodas and sugar loaded ice drinks of odd greenish, blueish or pinkish color :-p

Cofftea said 2010-08-26 10:51:13 -0400

I agree. There’s the health factors of the tea itself then the additives if there are any. Sugar, agave, and artificial sweeteners all bring them down different amount of notches on the healthy scale in different ways.

loupea said 2010-09-02 17:38:19 -0400

Some bottled/canned teas actually have more sugar than the equivalent size of popular sodas.

Cofftea said 2010-09-02 17:40:17 -0400

Scary, but true, loupea!

Cofftea said 2010-09-01 14:36:15 -0400

Another article, this one on Yahoo!
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/drmao/bottled-tea-antioxidants-barely-there

VegTea said 2010-09-03 09:23:56 -0400

Antioxidants or no, pretty much every bottled tea I have tried tastes like crap.

Cofftea said 2010-09-03 13:05:21 -0400

AMEN! Even the 1 brand of unsweetened RTD tea I’ve had did.

IdentiTEA said 2010-09-03 15:45:19 -0400

I agree. That is another reason why those who are used to drinking bottled tea make the weirdest face when tasting real tea for the first time – the flavors are completely different. Then, what is really bad, is that they blame the real thing for tasting “different.”