According to a team of researchers from Northwestern University, tea leaves and bags adsorb lead, trapping lead ions on their surfaces and filtering them from drinking water during the process of tea ...

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

Heavy metal ions stick to, or adsorb to ... The researchers created water solutions with known amounts of lead and other metals (chromium, copper, zinc and cadmium), and then heated the solutions ...

That daily brew might be purifying the water, too. In a new study, Northwestern University researchers demonstrated that brewing tea naturally adsorbs heavy metals like lead and cadmium, effectively ...

Researchers at Northwestern University estimate tea preparation can reduce about 15 per cent of toxic metals from drinking ...

So the concentrations tested in the study represent an extreme amount of lead in water.” The authors contend that tea brewing may adsorb heavy metals via heavy metal ions sticking to the ...

A study by Northwestern University reveals that tea can filter out heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and chromium from water. Brewing black tea for five minutes can reduce lead ions by about 15%.

The low-cost sensor made of a copper-based metal-organic framework performs as well as DNA based sensor, the gold standard ...