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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Those new pyramid shaped tea bags are pretty neat. Why you shouldn’t use them...


Tea bag technology has been changing lately. 

Those new pyramid-shaped, silky bags are sturdier, attractive, and according to some critics, toxic. Sonya Lunder, of the Environmental Working Group, says those new tea bags are usually made from plastic or food-grade nylon. So what’s the problem? We’re soaking those sachets in hot water, leaching the plastics right into our cup. Those plastics don’t contain BPAs but they do have phthalates which are no good for us.

If you’re ready to switch back to paper tea-bags - not so fast. Sonya says that those aren’t much better and contain other potentially hazardous stuff. Habitual tea drinkers are better off using loose leaf tea in a metal ball or screen tea strainer.

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