How/Why? Is that an oblique nod to insect protein, how does tea contain protein? 🤢
Tea is made from plants. All plants have proteins. The parts of the plant that we eat may or may not be a good source of protein for humans.
Practically all Chinese, Indian, and English teas are all made from the same species of plant, Camellia sinensis, simply known as a tea tree. If you were to eat the leaves they would be a good source of protein and fiber, not to mention vitamins and antioxidants. However, we discard the leaves with the fiber, and typical ways of preparing the leaves and the tea can decrease the protein and antioxidants. Its possible your brand flash freezes tthe leaves or uses some other method to try and preserve these nutrients. Ive seen some English teas that are powder you mix in instead of steeping, and this would work as well. In fact, tea leaves are absolutely edible! If you get a decent to high quality tea you can take your leaves after you make tea and throw them in a smoothie, soup, or even eggs and youll get the rest of the nutrients left in them and wont be thowing food in the bin.
So not bugs right?
Hate to break it to you, but all food can have a certain amount of bugs, poop, hair, etc per the FDA
Also, poop is in the air around you whenever you’re in an enclosed space, per the Mythbusters
Well, can have. Not must have.
On that same pedantic note: they’re not minimums, they’re testable limits. Testable. As in, not every batch is, nor every thousand…
Also, somebody here’s gonna love finding out how much of their own body mass is bacteria, parasites, and just plain dead. Not to mention that everything pasteurized still has the corpses of the “cleaned” microbes floating in it.
Life is gross. Get over it.
All food in the USA. The FDA has no jurisdiction anywhere else.
What country?
Is that when made with milk or the straight black tea?
If it’s straight black, then it sounds like you have some breakfast in your tea 😒
I was curious so I looked it up but everything I could find said 0% protein for Tazo English breakfast, so I went to my box of tea, another brand English breakfast, and alongside the table with the information for just the tea infusion (calories are specified as less than 4kcal, <4kcal) is another table for a serving with 30ml semi-skimmed milk with 1.2g protein. Could you post maybe a picture of the labeling?
