Packaged tea

In our fast-moving age of high technology, time is valued more than all other resources. For this reason, even the food industry seeks to produce instant products in order to greatly facilitate the task of modern housewives, and most importantly, reduce the time spent on the preparation of various culinary products.

Hundreds of examples of such instant food products can be found on the shelves of domestic grocery stores. Today we will talk about one of the most popular and oldest drinks that people began to eat in ancient times. Let's talk about tea, or rather about the surveyed variety of the famous drink.

Beverage manufacturers claim that tea in bags is fast, and most importantly convenient. However, connoisseurs and real foodies are skeptical about packaged tea and do not really favor the product with their attention and flattering reviews. So what are the pros and cons of packaged tea, we will try to figure it out.

It is believed that the first packaged tea was produced at the beginning of the last century. And as is usually the case completely by accident. Tea merchant Thomas Sullivan decided to pack his goods into small silk bags instead of tin cans. The first samples of packaged tea were sent for sampling to customers who enthusiastically took the new trend and began to brew tea right in the bags.

The new way of brewing tea quickly took root in the society of that time. Packaged tea was actively used in the allowance of soldiers who fought on the fields of the First World War. In 1929, Adolf Rambold opened the first industrial production of a new product.

If earlier expensive silk was used to make tea bags, now tea is packaged in special filtered paper. It is noteworthy that packaged tea in a short time was able to displace such previously popular types of drink as tableted or tiled tea from the market. The quality of the packaged tea depends primarily on the variety and quality of the leaf tea used in the product production process.

Harm of packaged tea

True, as a rule, raw materials of the lowest quality are used to make packaged tea. Although there are significant disadvantages and even some harm to packaged tea, the product is in demand and popular throughout planet Earth. It is worth noting that the influence of packaged tea on the human body has been the subject of scientific research.

As a result of the research, it was found that packaged tea would not cause harm if no more than 5 cups of drink were consumed per day. A special damage to the body is caused by packaged tea, which is brewed in plastic cups. It is also noteworthy that packaged tea should be eaten immediately after brewing. Over time, tea loses not only its taste, but also its beneficial properties. Therefore, it is better to pour packaged tea brewed a few hours ago.