Are there DBPs in that cup of tea? (Chlorine from tap water reacts with tea)

Science Daily / American Chemical Society / Environmental Science & Technology ^ | Sept. 15, 2021 | Jiafu Li, Md. Tareq Aziz, Caroline O. Granger, Susan D. Richardson.

[ConservativeMind]

It may require a lot of tea to surpass the level of concern, but using filtered water for brewing would appear to be incrementally better.

[Wissa]

It may require a lot of tea to surpass the level of concern, but using filtered water for brewing would appear to be incrementally better.

I drink a lot of tea and herbal teas. I get my water from my well.

[NWFree]

I saw Miley with a BB gun looking for right wing extremists

[NWFree]

Sorry

[SkyDancer]

People eventually die from drinking water.

[ConservativeMind]

Well water eliminates your issue.

I grew up on well water.

[grame]

I use spring water for my tea and I don’t boil it! I do buy British tea. Pretty snobby but so much better than any other I’ve tried. I drink green tea too.

[Mr Radical]

I find that using water containing Chlorine and/or Floride to brew tea makes it unpalatable anyway.

[cherry]

there used to be a tea...Nabob tea....best in the world.....Kraft bought the company and discontinued this tea....figures...

[Georgia Girl 2]

If you are drinking water from the tap you are poisoning yourself. We filter every drop we consume through a Berkey water filter. It takes out everything. Best $215 we ever spent.

[Wissa]

Well water eliminates your issue.

It also eliminates the problem of breathing in chlorine vapors when I take a shower, and I'd expect that to be a bigger health issue for people than what chlorine doesn't boil off from the water that they use when they make tea.

[ASOC]

are these bad things measured n PPT - parts per trillion?

Drink untreated water in the field, see what happens...

[ConservativeMind]

I have to agree with you about the flavor of the water influencing the flavor of the brewed tea. I grew up on well water, though, so I felt I had to filter the water from almost any city I've lived in.

One year I decided to review the water testing results the city was required to post and I noticed they were over the limit for chloramine. It made me call them to register a complaint, as the water came from wells and not a lake, so no algal blooms needed to be corrected.

I believe it had been an accidental excessive increase for a period of time.

[ConservativeMind]

I, and all of my neighbors for many miles drank “untreated water” from wells, and our water all checked out with the occasional testing (aside from an occasion or two with higher nitrites from fertilizer used in the fields, I believe).

[BipolarBob]

Why sorry? it’s not your fault the chlorine reacted with the tea to give you hallucinations. You didn’t know.

[EEGator]

To paraphrase Hugo Chavez, does it smell like the Devil was just standing here?

(sulfur smell)

[refermech]

It’s always something!

[EEGator]

I only drink grain alcohol and rain water. Fluoridating the water is a Communist conspiracy trying to rub us of our precious bodily fluids.

[Wissa]

To paraphrase Hugo Chavez, does it smell like the Devil was just standing here? (sulfur smell)

Not at all.

[EEGator]

Maybe it’s location, but down in FL outside of Jax, my friends water smelled like sulfur...