Nutritional Content of Tea

[her0n]

I drink enough of it whilst at work and i'm sure some of you lot do too...

Just how good is tea for you?! Is it fattening if you drink lots?

:confused:

[Tsung]

Depends... if it's evil tea from a vending machine it sure is fatting. If you insist on having several sugars in your tea, it can also be fatting. Milk in your tea might have some fatting effect. Caffene in the tea might have some dodgy effect.

Drink bottled water, thats the only safe way =)

[her0n]

I drink tea and water!

It's made by a person from teabags and semi skimmed milk.. I take one sugar.

Wizzo mentioned something about it having 'anti cancer shiz' in it :eek: !

[Elbonio]

Tea is supposed to be good for your heart... according to the tea companies


i dont know about "anti-cancer shizz" ... i didnt think we had a cure for cancer, and here are PG tips keeping it secret all this time....

[Cheez]

Water + Teabag, adding anything else to tea marks you as demon spawn who should be hunted down.

[Switch`]

Water + Teabag + Milk + 2 Sugars. and you can rot in heck if you think im going to change how i drink my tea. also. i call Weej to this conversation based on her enjoyment of Tea

[Tsung]

Originally posted by F2_Switch
Water + Teabag + Milk + 2 Sugars. and you can rot in heck if you think im going to change how i drink my tea. also. i call Weej to this conversation based on her enjoyment of Tea

You should reduce the amount of sugar you have in Tea. Do it slowly grain at a time over a couple of years. That will save your teeth from rotting..

[Elbonio]

i take between 2 and 3 in mine


depending on how low my blood sugar level is at the time

[her0n]

When I was in year 7 my friend and I used to have an odd obsession with tea (and also homemade lemonade!).. we used to dare each other to put silly amounts of sugar in the tea and then drink it.. it got to something like 6 or 7 spoons :o .... but then we got used to drinking it like that :/

I'm so thankful my teeth are still in good condition!

[Matt]

Took me about 3 weeks to go from 2 spoons to none, simply by cutting it down gradually each day to none, same with cerial.

Now the thought of suger in team sounds absolutly horrible.

[Elbonio]

i get really ratty and lightheaded if i dont get sugar on a regular basis

i think i must have low bloodsugar levels or something

[TE-Hellfire]

Had a builder round our house once that took 8 sugars in his tea.

I just drink water, despite the communist conspiracy of flouridation, sapping and impurifying my precious bodily fluids.

[Baroness]

Yeah, it is meant to have anti-cancer properties. I remember reading that a little while ago when some study or other was carried out.

Strong, no sugar for me, if anyone's making........

:D

[Pingman]

Everything seams to prevent cancer or cause cancer these days.

I drinl hardly any tea, just taste like nasty water to me, allthoug i prefer it to coffeer, but i think we can all say Hot Chocolate > *

[m00]

Antioxidants.

[Cabe]

I prefer coffee

[andyf]

Water, diet soft drinks, tea, coffee, whatever - its not the fluids I'm worried about :)

[Dwarf_Pr0n]

Originally posted by *Tsunami*
Drink bottled water, thats the only safe way =)

And even minerals within bottled water has been linked to causing cancer. Nothing is safe so eat and drink whatever you like cos in the end we all end up in the same state... Waiting for the next round of life :)

[Er00]

and if you reuse the bottles you'll get cancer

I love tea, usually have without milk, go through stages with milk though...depends tea with milk has a tendency to make me feel sick sometimes :confused:

And I don't see how people can like tea with sugar...it just tastes really odd

[Optimus]

I dont drink hot drinks...

[her0n]

....Aww does Mummy say you're not allowed them? :p:



And re: Bottled Water.... I actually find that tap water tastes nicer(!) Only from around my area though.. the tap water at FBL-Padworth is absolutely disgusting :s (but FBL is great so all go sign up now go go go)

[lyn]

I drink fruit tea, not sure if this has any of the anti-cancer stuff in it

[Dunceantix]

I normally drink around 8 cups of tea during my working day... i work so hard you see...

If its normal tea ill have a little bit of milk, if its Earl Grey i have it with nothing... YUM..

:D

[Langos]

In a course at uni we analysed tea and coffe to see which contained more caffine. We found that tea contained far more caffine but that's probably because of the way it's brewed. Anyhow, we also found that some coffe contains rather high amounts of cyclical carbonhydrates (mainly soot and tar) where as tea didn't contain any of these compounds. It's also a fact that both tea and coffe dehydrating, it has something to do with the metabolism of caffine so if you drink **** loads of tea you prolly drink alot of water aswell :)

[Optimus]

Originally posted by her0n
....Aww does Mummy say you're not allowed them? :p: ooooh scathing...

I dont like Tea or Coffee... got a problem?

Langos, I thought tea and coffee, like coke and beer, were diaretics, so you pissed more than you drank...

[Toptotty]

I drink tea / coffee / whatever's being made.

Don't give a damn if it's going to kill me or not at some point, coz tbh we're all gonna die :)

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[Switch`]

hum. i Vary the ammount of sugar i have depending on size of drinking Vesel. sometimes 2 sometimes 3. (FAO * my teeth have NO Holes. No Fillings. and No Decay :D)

[Langos]

Originally posted by Optimus
ooooh scathing...

I dont like Tea or Coffee... got a problem?

Langos, I thought tea and coffee, like coke and beer, were diaretics, so you pissed more than you drank...

Me beeing a silly swede, I don't know the differance of the two words so you are prolly right. Still means you should drink loads of water the more tea/coffe you drink, right?

[Baz]

i drink bristol tap water

forget cancer, it causes mutations

[nic0]

Tea 3 sugars please =]
I know that some tea's contain alot of tannic acid, which can be used to treat various medical conditions for instance burns etc. <me thanks SAS Survival Book for that>

[Demondan]

Originally posted by nic0
Tea 3 sugars please =]
I know that some tea's contain alot of tannic acid, which can be used to treat various medical conditions for instance burns etc. <me thanks SAS Survival Book for that>

Wouldn't recommend pouring hot tea on yourself to heal burns :D

[Er00]

tannic acid same as tannin? in which case young red wine good for that too :p:

And yea, I prefer tap water, although only in some places, tap water where I go to school is terrible. Although not terrible enough to warrant a bottle of water costing 80p in the vending machine.

Anyway, isn't it that tea has more caffeine derivatives than coffee but coffee has more caffeine that will actually DO something? That's what I heard. Although this was from some crazy guy.. :p:

[Strych]

Anti-cancer flavins in tea (http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/news-ng.asp?id=33355-ingredient-x-black)

[Chicane]

i do drink a lot of tea, although i am partial to those cappuccino's you can buy in a packet then by adding hot water u get instant cappuccino :D

[Er00]

They're horrible Chicane :/ Really watery, like instant hot chocolate...yech...

[Optimus]

but didn't he just say 'he likes them'?

and they aren't watery if you make them right (i.e. pour the water in and stir as you go... then the coffee gets mixed properly and doesn't just stay wadded at the bottom of the cup)

[Er00]

maybe my mum just buys cheapo stuff, but even when it all gets mixed in properly it's disgusting... :p: