Loose Leaf Tea vs. Tea Bags A tea bag makes brewing easy. Loose leaf makes the ingredients easy to see. But neither tells you, on its own, how much care went into the tea. That care begins long before the water heats: with the ingredients selected, how they are processed and stored, the balance of […]
A New Heart Study Raises an Important Question For generations, conversations about healthy eating have focused on one simple question: What’s in our food? Increasingly, scientists are asking another: What else are we consuming that was never meant to be there? A newly published cardiovascular study in the European Heart Journal has renewed public concern […]
Microplastics are everywhere plastic gets hot — including your teacup. You wouldn’t drink water from a bottle left in a hot car. But that’s essentially what happens every time you steep tea in the wrong vessel. Hot water doesn’t just extract flavor from what it touches. It extracts everything — microplastics included. I watched The […]