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 ...

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Researchers from Northwestern University have found that tea leaves absorb certain harmful metals from water, such as lead and cadmium, preventing us from ingesting them. The researchers emphasize ...

Vinayak Dravid (right), professor of materials science at Northwestern University, oversaw a team of scientists that discovered tea leaves can absorb and filter out harmful metals, including lead.

Next, they added different types of tea leaves – both loose and commercially bagged – to those samples, then allowed them to steep for anywhere from a few seconds up to 24 hours. Once the ...

A farmer shows newly-picked tea leaves at a tea garden of an agricultural demonstration park in Wuzhong District, Suzhou City, east China's Jiangsu Province, March 17, 2025. Harvest season for ...

Getting the perfect cup of tea starts with using the right amount of loose-leaf tea. Here's how much you should measure out ...

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 ...

Heavy metals are absorbed on the surface of the tea leaves, where they stay trapped, researchers at Northwestern University in the US found. The scientists estimated that tea preparation can ...

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