Labels on bottled tea tout high amounts of antioxidants, but a new study suggests the healthiest teas with the highest amounts of antioxidants are brewed in your own home. Some bottled teas contain such small amounts of antioxidants that consumers would have to drink 20 bottles to get the same quantity present in a single cup of home-brewed tea.
"There is a huge gap between the perception that tea consumption is healthy and the actual amount of the healthful nutrients — polyphenols — found in bottled tea beverages. Our analysis of tea beverages found that the polyphenol content is extremely low," said study researcher Shiming Li in an article published by LiveScience.com.
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