How/Why? Is that an oblique nod to insect protein, how does tea contain protein? 🤢 + 3 CALORIES?!
Edit: there’s no milk or anything milk-related
Tea is made from plants. All plants have proteins. The parts of the plant that we eat may or may not be a good source of protein for humans.
Practically all Chinese, Indian, and English teas are all made from the same species of plant, Camellia sinensis, simply known as a tea tree. If you were to eat the leaves they would be a good source of protein and fiber, not to mention vitamins and antioxidants. However, we discard the leaves with the fiber, and typical ways of preparing the leaves and the tea can decrease the protein and antioxidants. Its possible your brand flash freezes tthe leaves or uses some other method to try and preserve these nutrients. Ive seen some English teas that are powder you mix in instead of steeping, and this would work as well. In fact, tea leaves are absolutely edible! If you get a decent to high quality tea you can take your leaves after you make tea and throw them in a smoothie, soup, or even eggs and youll get the rest of the nutrients left in them and wont be thowing food in the bin.
So not bugs right?
Hate to break it to you, but all food can have a certain amount of bugs, poop, hair, etc per the FDA
Well, can have. Not must have.
On that same pedantic note: they’re not minimums, they’re testable limits. Testable. As in, not every batch is, nor every thousand…
Also, somebody here’s gonna love finding out how much of their own body mass is bacteria, parasites, and just plain dead. Not to mention that everything pasteurized still has the corpses of the “cleaned” microbes floating in it.
Life is gross. Get over it.
All food in the USA. The FDA has no jurisdiction anywhere else.
If you think food magically doesnt have any contamination with bugs etc. elsewhere I have some ocean front property in Wyoming to sell you.
Did you know that people who develop an allergy to cockroaches find they also react to preground coffee.
Also, poop is in the air around you whenever you’re in an enclosed space, per the Mythbusters
Most food contains bugs. Its unlikely that it would be a large enough quantity to change the nutrition labels.
I used to work with health inspectors, when talking about my work I would describe what they do as “ You know the guys who go into restaurants and say ‘I’m shutting you down there’re too many cockroaches in the soup’”
About 1 person in 10 notices I said too many cockroaches.
Restaurants are allowed to have a certain amount of bug parts in soup.
Corporate has clarified that they use the ingredient Not BugsTM
“It’s definitely Not BugsTM!”*
spoiler
*Not Bugs TM or may not contain no less than 12% bugs
Frankly? OP’s either a child, a troll, or both.
cum.
Its bugs sweetie now go lay down for nap time
Maybe a nice 69 would do muh some good 😂
If you ever eaten anything made with any grain, you have eaten some amount of bugs. Just like you have eaten some amount of dirt.
Though rare, some herbal teas might have tiny amounts of protein left from the plant they are made from. Some other things they added in to the tea, like for flavor, might also contain protein.
Tea in general has 0g of protein according to the Harvard School of Public Health
All living or once living things have protein in them. Tea is no exception.
What country?
English tea, so is that with milk?
Unless the milk is in the teabag than probably not
Ok, must be bugs :)
Nooooo??!!!
Brand?
Tazo, also, it has3 calories ☠️
2 grams of protein is 8 calories so something you’ve said is untrue. If not post a picture.
Can you give me a quick 123 list on how to do that?
- Take pic
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Take pic
upload pic to imgur
open imgur image in new tab, so you get the full address, including extension (probably .jpeg) at the end
post comment
instructions posted 3 days ago, where picture?
Seriously? How the fuck do you not know how to upload an image? That’s grandma level tech illiteracy.
Tazo is a subbrand of Lipton which itself is a sub brand of Unilever. I was unable to find any English Breakfast on their website that the nutrition label stated it had 2 grams of protein. Every tea I saw had 0 listed.
Pretty popular in the US, so I do drink them from time to time and they arent bad, but I dont advise to eat the leaves when you are done. The leaves are very highly processed, and they dont really care if other things get mixed into the tea peaves before processing.
I was confused by this as well. I looked it up and couldn’t find any label that had 2g of protein. The most I found was their Vanilla Chai which contains 0.1g.
1 g of protein = 4 calories, so something is off.
