Daily tea routine protects you from heavy metals, finds learning

Researchers identified another great reason to drink tea: naturally cleans water.

Researchers at Northwest University prevented us from watering water, such as waterfall, such as lead and cadmium, such as lead and cadmium. Researchers emphasize that the river leaves should not replace water filters, but the work sheds light on the light of how this lovely drink is passively protected. Themselves learnMonday was published in the magazine ACS Food Sciences and TechnologyFinally tea drinkers give a real reason to feel superior to coffee drinkers.

“Tea leaves as a material,” Benjamin Shindel, the first author of the study and an engineer in northwestern university, said an engineer in a university statement. “But he is the feature of the river that the world’s most consumed drinks. It would not be practical to get a similar metal correction effect.

These are heavy metal ions, the atoms of heavy metals, which are electrically installed on the surface of the river leaves. To explore this property, Shindel and colleagues, including Lead, chromium, copper, zinc and cadmium, various types of river bags, brewing methods and seams, including heated solutions, measured the level of metals.

Their method gave several remarkable observations. Probably the most important factor in the ability to filter the heavy metals of the teapot: the tea is so heavy, so heavy.

“Some people brew their rivers in a few seconds and do not intend to restore a large number. Like a long time or even one night, like an icy tea, or perhaps the metal will approach all of the metals in the water,” he said.

Another important aspect is the surface area of ​​tea leaves. In short, the higher the surface area can be absorbed more connecting sites for metal ions and heavy metals. This does not change the leaves of the soil against the empty leaf tea, or vice versa does not change the metal absorption of the leaves.

“When the tea leaves (tea), wrinkles and pores are opened,” Schindel said. “It adds more surface area to wrinkles and pores. Grind the leaves, increases the surface area that provides more power to parcel.”

Tea packages also play a role in absorbing contaminants. Although cotton and nylon bags are hardly hopped, heavy metals (plant-based) bags also swalled an important amount. “Nylon tea bags are already problematic because most of the tea bags used today are made of natural materials such as cellulose. These are the fiber that our body can handle. Added that the filter of cellulose can be a higher surface area with a surface area than synthetic materials.

In general, researchers have a typical tea bag (a mug water with a tea bag with a tea bag) filtered about 15% of water from a strain from filtering filtering from filtering filter from filtering. Emphasizing that researchers will not resolve the true drinking water crisis of the river, their work reveals practical concepts that may affect future public health research.

“Throughout a population, people drink an extra cup of tea on a day, be reduced in closely related diseases with exposure to heavy metals,” he said. “Or more tea drinking populations can explain that the reduction of tea disease and stroke rates can be more than low tea consumption populations.”

In other words: Tea drinkers, continue to do what you do.