Researchers found that compounds in black and green tea leaves acted like “little Velcro” hooks on lead molecules. By Alexander Nazaryan Tea leaves pull heavy metals from water, significantly ...

That comforting hot cup of tea—or refreshing glass of iced tea on a hot summer day—could help reduce the amount of toxic metals in drinking water, according to a new paper published in the journal ACS ...

The process of brewing tea was shown to remove toxic heavy metals from drinking water in a new study from Northwestern University in Illinois. The researchers explain the findings to Fox News Digital.

Whether it's delicate green tea or robust black tea, get the perfect cup of tea by using the right water temperature when ...

Harmful metals like lead and cadmium naturally stick to tea leaves during brewing, effectively removing them from water. The longer tea is steeped, the more metals are removed, with up to 15 ...

Scientists at Northwestern University have found that tea leaves absorb toxic heavy metals, such as lead and cadmium, ...

Herbal teas like chamomile, which aren’t made from actual tea leaves, were also less effective. Steeping black tea for five ...

A new study found that tea leaves naturally absorb heavy metals, filtering dangerous contaminants from drinking water.

The Evanston researchers discovered brewed black, green and other tea leaves can remove dangerous contaminants as the leaves act like a sponge.

The authors then added tea leaves or bags and steeped them for various time periods, from seconds to 24 hours, before measuring how much of the metals remained in the water. “Nylon tea bags are ...

Finely ground black tea leaves performed best at removing toxic heavy metals. Longer steeping times helped tea remove larger amounts of contaminants. Good news for tea lovers: That daily brew ...

With tea, people don’t need to do anything extra. Just put the leaves in your water and steep them, and they naturally remove metals.” To conduct the study, the Northwestern team explored how ...