bottled, cold * GREEN TEA * what do you recommend?

[disneymom3]

Well, I have found some info. However, I googled green tea and FDA as it made more sense to me that the Food and Drug Adminstration would be a bit more interested in what people were drinking than the Environmental Protection Agency. I tried green tea and EPA and got nothing other than "green" farming techniques etc.

A lot of it is conflicting and I found nothing that suggests that the FDA agrees with the concerns.

Here are some of the links if you are interested

http://www.fluoridedebate.com/question21.html

This one has a chart with green tea fluoride levels that have been tested and some interesting reading and references to brick tea as being a concern

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/tea/index.html

This website is definitely anti fluoride, but they do also state that some of the worst offenders are grape juice and soy baby formula and somehow no one seems up in arms about those. Scroll about halfway down.

http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/fluoride.html

And this one talks about someone requesting the FDA to regulate the levels, but never says what the FDA response was.

http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/news-ng.asp?n=58604-calls-for-fda


Oh, and the one my friend is always drinking is SoBe.

 

[KelNottAt]

I really like Lipton's Citrus Green Tea. We usually get the diet (if available) We buy the 12 packs at the grocery store (makes it much cheaper.)

Me too! Me too! I LOVE IT.

I've got to have the diet, though. Nothing else. The "regular" is soooo full of sugar, carbs, and cals that it almost seems as bad as having a Coke.

 

[poohandwendy]

I did some googling too and I am finding nothing more than conflicting opinion. Nothing official.

If anything, what I am finding is that our municipal water and antacids are where we 'could' be getting toxic levels of aluminum. Green tea consumption doesn't seem like a very big offender, so to speak.

I don't see how you can come in making claims without linking any solid, reputable sources and then get disgusted that people aren't going to automatically just take your opinion as the gospel.

 

[sakura-panda]

At the risk of being semi-on-topic , does anyone know if there is such a thing as chilled, bottled UNSWEETENED green tea? I have decided that it is impossible to find chilled, bottled, unsweeten tea with lemon but maybe there is a green tea version out there?

"Diet" tea always makes me laugh (sorry! ) because I can't figure out how to make an unsweetened diet tea and I always forget that some people like sugar in their tea .

Thanks!

--Katie

 

[bananiem]

My April 2006 issue of the Mayo Clinic Health Quest came in the mail today. Guess what is listed #5 under "10 foods to favor"?! That's right! Green tea!!!
"5. Green tea is a major source of phytochemicals and may help prevent some cancers as well as heart disease."

 

[Miss Jasmine]

My April 2006 issue of the Mayo Clinic Health Quest came in the mail today. Guess what is listed #5 under "10 foods to favor"?! That's right! Green tea!!!
"5. Green tea is a major source of phytochemicals and may help prevent some cancers as well as heart disease."

Ha! What the heck does the Mayo Clinic know?

 

[disneymom3]

Everyone knows that the Mayo Clinic is a bunch of quacks!

 

[bzelf]

At the risk of being semi-on-topic , does anyone know if there is such a thing as chilled, bottled UNSWEETENED green tea? I have decided that it is impossible to find chilled, bottled, unsweeten tea with lemon but maybe there is a green tea version out there?

"Diet" tea always makes me laugh (sorry! ) because I can't figure out how to make an unsweetened diet tea and I always forget that some people like sugar in their tea .

Thanks!

--Katie

Sakura-Panda,

Trader Joe sells an unsweetened green tea in 2 different versions. One is regular green tea and the other is an orange & bergamot green tea. It comes in a 1 liter glass bottle and sells for $1.49. It is not sold chilled.

bzelf

 

[sha_lyn]

I believe that INKO makes an unsweetened green tea. I've been drinking their unsweetened white tea.

 

[Planogirl]

From the previous article that was posted:

But you’d have to ingest about 20,000 times more fluoride than what’s in an 8-ounce glass of fluoridated water to see such an effect.

Since tap water appears to have more fluoride in it than tea does that's a lot of tea.

 

[Galahad]

From the previous article that was posted:


Since tap water appears to have more fluoride in it than tea does that's a lot of tea.

Yeah, you'd probably do more damage to your kidneys trying to get enough fluoride than anything the fluoride could do......

 

[DukeStreetKing]

Guess I'm goin' to hell in a handbasket again.

There should be plenty of room in here for all of us to make the trip: