Getting the perfect cup of tea starts with using the right amount of loose-leaf tea. Here's how much you should measure out ...

With the news of tea’s ability to absorb heavy metals like lead in water, it’s worth grabbing a tea infuser to promote as ...

That means using ground tea leaves versus loose-leaf tea, or vice versa ... Overall, the researchers concluded that a typical cup of tea (one mug of water with one tea bag steeped for three ...

and they examined the difference between loose-leaf and bagged tea. The recipe for the purest cup of tea depends on one major factor: time. The longer the steep time, the more metal removed.

A new study found that tea leaves naturally absorb heavy metals, filtering dangerous contaminants from drinking water.

About five billion cups of tea are consumed each day around the ... green, rooibos, herbal, loose leaf and plain old Lipton — behaved in water with varying amounts of lead.