Why should you avoid tea bags?
Tea is a comforting drink that we usually enjoy throughout the year, but how good it is to prepare it in the bags.
By preparing tea with a sachet, millions of microplastics, as well as nanoplastics, would be released in our infusion , indicates a study by McGill University.
We tend to think that it is only about herbal extracts and paper. But this is not the case, many of these sachets contain plastic, mainly polypropylene in their composition to ensure that they maintain their shape without decomposing when in contact with water.
The question that researchers sought to resolve is the amount of plastic particles that are released when preparing our drink. So they opened the bags and took out the tea leaves so they would not interfere with the analysis. Then, they heated the em...