Tea Infusers

I always love to have tea from the Railway pantry. Because it uses tea bags, which fascinated and excited me! 

Tea that I was excited about earlier But then, I started noticing that tea powders are slowly being replaced with tea bags even at home. It made me look into the science or facts about teabags. The history takes this tea bag again to China where tea was born. Initially, they used it for herbal (includes tea leaves with spices) tea. The main purpose was to maintain the exact composition of tea leaves and spices in each and every cup of tea and also for maintaining the aromas. Earlier tea bags were made of various materials like hand-sewn fabric, paper, silk bags, etc., later nylon, paper fibers were used. Then through various studies, it was found that degrading these bags leaves plastic residues which are highly undesirable. On the other hand, what are the possible effects these tea bags can cause to a person's health? We usually drink tea for feeling fresh and healthy, but on using tea bags what happens? Does these tea bags have expiry dates? If so how long? To make these tea bags durable, a pesticide named "Epichlorohydrin" is used which is found to be a potential carcinogen. Whoa Whoa!! What? Cancer? From a teabag? I thought we use teabags containing green tea, lemon tea, etc., all herbs which are supposed to make us better. But the reality is different! Then I started looking for alternatives, and I found handy, portable tea fuser (stainless steel).

For now, I am relaxed using the infuser on the GO with just hot water available. Tea infuser that I am using now, I put tea leaves(loose leaves, bought from the store after a long search) and simply put this into my teacup. Boooom! my tea is ready, works the same as teabag but safer relatively.Share your views on this. 

Stay healthy and happy! Happy teaing !!!!💕🍵🍵 Anbudan, Divya Bharathi