My English Breakfast tea states it contains 2g of protein.
My English Breakfast tea states it contains 2g of protein.
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.
60Frankly? OP's either a child, a troll, or both.
3So not bugs right?
1Most food contains bugs. Its unlikely that it would be a large enough quantity to change the nutrition labels.
18I 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.
8Corporate 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
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cum.
33Just so everyone knows, since upvotes are public on the Fediverse anyway, I only upvoted this because it was the first response I saw when I opened the thread and it caused me to physically crack up laughing.
For shame on your immature and uninformative comment, otherwise. For shaaaaaame.
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I was curious so I looked it up but everything I could find said 0% protein for Tazo English breakfast, so I went to my box of tea, another brand English breakfast, and alongside the table with the information for just the tea infusion (calories are specified as less than 4kcal, <4kcal) is another table for a serving with 30ml semi-skimmed milk with 1.2g protein. Could you post maybe a picture of the labeling?
25I tried Imgur but couldn't get it to work. You're just going to have to take my word for it until we have the technology :(
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Its bugs sweetie now go lay down for nap time
17Maybe a nice 69 would do muh some good 😂
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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.
11All living or once living things have protein in them. Tea is no exception.
7Tea in general has 0g of protein according to the Harvard School of Public Health
6Though 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.
4Brand?
3Tazo, also, it has3 calories ☠️
-5Tazo 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.
71 g of protein = 4 calories, so something is off.
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English tea, so is that with milk?
3Unless the milk is in the teabag than probably not
-2I don't know if this is the case in the US, but a lot of food products here in the UK have a version of the nutritional information which is "prepared as directed". Breakfast cereal is often shown as "x grams with y ml semi-skimmed milk" for example. Is your tea doing something like this and giving you values for brewing it and adding a splash of milk, perhaps?
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What country?
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