8 Popular Tea Bag Companies that Contain Illegal Amounts of Deadly Pesticides
There’s nothing nicer than sipping on a warm cup of herbal tea on a cold midwinter’s day. But besides being tasty and warming, tea provides a host of different health benefits – that is, unless your tea is soaked in pesticides.
The investigators found that over half of all teas tested had pesticide residues that were above the legally acceptable limit. Multiple chemicals were found in 8 out of 10 teas, with one brand of tea containing over 22 different types of pesticides (Uncle Lee’s Legends of China tea brand).
A large majority of these pesticides are currently being banned in several countries due to the health risks they pose to works that handle them, and the negative effects they have on the environment (as well as the health of those that consume the products).
Greenpeace also released a study exposing many popular tea brands that contain high levels of pesticide residues – some which even tested positive for DDT, an incredibly toxic pesticide that was banned years ago.
And yet another round of tests conducted by Glaucus Research found that 91% of Celestial Seasonings tea tested had pesticide residues exceeding the U.S. limits. For example, Sleepytime Kids Goodnight Grape Herbal contained 0.26 ppm of propachlor, which is a known carcinogen under California’s Propsition 65.
Tea Bag Companies That Contain High Levels of Pesticide
The tea companies that were found to contain the highest pesticide levels were as follows:
• Brooke Bond
– Red Label
– Red Label Natural Care
– Red Label Special
– 3 Roses Natural Care
– Taj Mahal
• Celestial Seasonings
– Authentic Green Tea
– Antioxidant Max Blackberry Pomegranate
– Antioxidant Max Blood Orange
– Antioxidant Max Dragon Fruit
– English Breakfast Black K-Cup
– Green Tea Honey Lemon Ginger
– Green Tea Peach Blossom
– Green Tea Raspberry Gardens
– Sleepytime Herbal Teas (Flagship)
– Sleepytime Kids Goodnight Grape Herbal
• Golden Tips
– Nilgiri Tea
– Pure Darjeeling Tea
– Assam Tea
• Goodricke
– Chai Strong CTC Long Leaf
– Roasted Darjeeling – Orange Pekoe
– Thurbo Flavoury Darjeeling Tea
– Thurbo Flavoury Darjeeling Tea
• Kanan Devan
• Kho Cha
– Darjeeling
– Masala Chai
• King Cole
– Orange Pekoe
• Lipton
– Clear Green Tea
– Darjeeling Tea
– Pure Green Tea
– Yellow Label Black Tea
Ref: https://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/m/blog/full-tea-test-results
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Megala
Nov 11, 2018, 6:20 amOMG! This is really shocking!
Thanks for the awakening post.
Rita
Nov 11, 2018, 8:46 pmYes, I was shocked too. Research was done in Canada. I think it is the tea bag paper.
Megala
Nov 11, 2018, 10:55 pmThen it is better to use tea leaves rather than tea bags.