Getting the perfect cup of tea starts with using the right amount of loose-leaf tea. Here's how much you should measure out ...

A Northwestern University study found that tea leaves can naturally pull lead and other dangerous metals out of water as tea ...

(The overall technique of drying, pulverizing, and then mixing whole tea leaves into water to drink dates back even earlier, to tenth-century China.) Today, with their proliferation in countless ...

These include drinking tulsi tea, combining it with lemon water or honey, using tulsi leaf powder, taking supplements, or adding tulsi seeds to salads. For tulsi tea, steep 8–10 fresh leaves or ...

The authors then added tea leaves or bags and steeped them for various time periods, from seconds to 24 hours, before measuring how much of the metals remained in the water. “Nylon tea bags are ...

The proper way to serve matcha is to sift the tea powder before frothing it with a little hot water ... Many people add a bit of honey to balance its bitterness. The Jade Leaf matcha that's so popular ...

A study by Northwestern University reveals that tea can filter out heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and chromium from water. Brewing black tea for five minutes can reduce lead ions by about 15%.

“We’re not suggesting that everyone starts using tea leaves as a water filter,” said co-author Vinayak Dravid, who studies sorbent materials at Northwestern University. “Our goal was to ...

Finely ground black tea leaves performed best at removing toxic heavy metals. Longer steeping times helped tea remove larger amounts of contaminants. Good news for tea lovers: That daily brew ...

Heavy metal ions stick to, or adsorb to, the surface of the tea leaves, where they stay trapped. The study was published Feb. 24 in the journal ACS Food Science & Technology. “We’re not suggesting ...

IT’S A CONCENTRATED form of ingredients found in green tea leaves. Decades of scientific research suggest that people who regularly drink green tea are healthier than those who don’t.