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

Tea leaves can remove heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and chromium from water. And steeping time has the biggest impact.

A scanning electron microscope image of a dried black tea leaf, showing its extensive surface area The cotton and nylon tea bags had little effect one way or the other, but such was definitely not ...

Researchers found that compounds in black and green tea leaves acted like “little Velcro” hooks on lead molecules. By Alexander Nazaryan Tea leaves pull heavy metals from water, significantly ...

The Evanston researchers discovered brewed black, green and other tea leaves can remove dangerous contaminants as the leaves ...

Scanning electron microscope image of black tea leaves, magnified by 300 times. Black tea, which is wilted and fully oxidized, exhibits a wrinkled and surface, potentially increasing the available ...

Herbal teas like chamomile, which aren’t made from actual tea leaves, were also less effective. Steeping black tea for five ...

The type and grind of tea also mattered to a minor degree. Finely ground leaves, especially those of black tea, adsorbed more contaminants than whole leaves. “When tea leaves are processed into ...