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.

[grame]

I use Ahmad. Earl Grey is my go to, but English Breakfast, lemon green tea, and many of their flavored teas are great. They now have a place to order direct located in the US.

[jcon40]

Thanks for the post. I drink a quality Japanese green tea and filter the chlorine using activated charcoal filter plus change the filter per mfg recommendations. Seems to work

The sun helps reduce chlorine residual. Do you know if this works for sun tea or if you have to leave the lid off?

Also for years I owned a commercial dechlorinator used to neutralize the chlorine used for disinfection of newly installed water lines. It ran off of citric acid. I’ve heard vitamin C is also used to smaller scale.

I’m no expert but hadn’t seen these methods mentioned here.

I always thought a little chlorine might be good to flush the digestive system...Ha,ha. about equal to eating a handful of dirt, crept you never know what’s in the dirt unless you’ve tested it too.

And then there’s distilled water for drinking which brings out many opinions

[ConservativeMind]

It has to be removed before brewing, but the brewing involved did require heat, of which suntea uses less.

[jcon40]

I’ve heard powdered water is even more deadly

[Georgia Girl 2]

My sister used to live on Fleming Island. I was in Orange Park.

[redinIllinois]

Great thread!!

Thanks for posting