Bergamot tea is made by combining black tea and bergamot orange extract. Some of the claimed health benefits of bergamot tea include improved heart health and digestion, but research is limited.

And, this is especially concerning in that non-heme iron makes up between 70% and 90% of dietary iron. Numerous studies have shown that coffee and tea—both of which are high in caffeine—may ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Tea bags could be releasing billions of ...

Deanna Pai is a beauty writer and editor for InStyle currently based in New York. She has more than 10 years of experience writing about beauty and wellness.

English afternoon tea set including hot tea, pastry, scones, sandwiches and mini pies on marble top table. High tea, a quintessentially British institution, finds its truest expression in London.

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Not all tea bags shed them. We asked experts if it’s risky to use the ones that do. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Q: I’ve heard there are ...

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Now, new research has detected microplastics in yet another common spot: tea bags. The study, which was published in the journal Chemosphere in December, is raising a lot of questions about the ...

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Want sugar or milk in your tea? How about plastic? Researchers have found that tea bags are releasing millions of nanoplastics and microplastics into tea. Monika Skolimowska/dpa ...