Avoiding microplastics can feel impossible—but limiting sites of known exposure is one way to protect your health.

People have been enjoying jasmine tea for many centuries. Both tea and jasmine were cultivated in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and people may have drunk jasmine tea even before that time.

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Regular ScienceAlert readers will likely know how pervasive microplastics are – getting into human tissue, ancient rock, and bottled water – but it may come as a shock to discover just how many of ...

Meaning: If you use these links to buy something, we will not earn a commission. Tea is the second most popular drink in the world (water is the only more popular beverage), and on any given day, ...

People around the world drink tea. Hundreds of varieties exist, from white to black and green to oolong. They all naturally have high amounts of health-promoting substances called flavonoids.

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Drinking tea from plastic-containing tea bags could expose you to billions of nano- and microplastics with every sip, putting your health at risk. Many tea bags contain small amounts of tiny ...

You might think of tea as a comforting, soothing ritual. But, scientists at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have made a startling discovery — infusing tea through commercial tea bags might be ...

A UAB research has characterised in detail how polymer-based commercial tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of ...