Loose Leaf Tea or Teabags?

Drinking tea should be a pleasant experience,which means that on some level, one should derive pleasure out of that cup of tea. Though it varies from person to person, pleasure can be derived due to fragrance, good taste and a warm feeling when being consumed. In our fast faced world, we tend to chose a hassle free teabag over brewing a cup of tea with premium loose leaf tea. Read on to know some of the basic differences between drinking loose leaf to versus teabags.

Loose leaf tea is handpicked from the optimum part of the plant which is flavourful and has health benefits. Teabags on the other hand are usually dust fannings. It is machine made and includes twigs and butter leaves resulting in less flavour and removes all the essential oils from the tea.

Loose leaf teas are picked by experienced hands to get the best part of the tea, while teabags are mass produced in large scale industries.

The loose leaf tea leaves are beautiful and you also appreciate the beauty of the tea leaves after infusion. Teabags turn brown and take away from the beauty of the beverage.

Loose leaf tea has complex flavours. You can taste the earth elements of the region where the tea has been grown. Teabags are usually strong teas and have dry and bitter tannins, and therefore you need to add milk to improve the taste.

Loose leaf teas can be brewed multiple times and the flavour is released slowly, resulting in a refined tea every time it infused. The teabag releases all its flavours only once and therefore can only be used for one cup of tea.

Loose leaf tea is more pocket friendly in the long run because you can reuse the tea leaves multiple times for brewing. Teabags tend to be more expensive because you can use one teabag only once, thereby increase the amount of tea you purchase.

Loose leaf tea is environmentally friendly. Teabags use paper or synthetic fabric for teh bags, strings are attached to the bags for digging and usually paper boxes for packaging.

Switch to loose leaf tea, not only is it good for the environment it is also good for your health. Say not to teabags.

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