I'm no nutritionist but if you also drink or eat tomato, carrot, red beet juice add up with coffee then you don't really need to worry about pigment in the tea.
Every vegetable have different pigment at different concentration. Those above are quite concentrated one.
What dangerous is tea processed improperly having additional chemical added to it (if any).
There is no way you will stain your insides with tea. Your entire digestive tract is lined with some variation of epithelial tissue, and that has some of the highest cell turn over in the entire body. That means it's constantly replenishing itself with new cells. Even if the old cells did get stained (which they won't...things move too fast and are in too acidic of an environment to do so), the stain would be gone within a matter of hours or days.
To get rid of tea stains on teaware without scrubbing your precious fingers off, all you have to do is either introduce a mild acid like vinegar or let the piece soak in hot water for a bit. Easy peasy.
To get rid of tea stains on teaware without scrubbing your precious fingers off, all you have to do is either introduce a mild acid like vinegar or let the piece soak in hot water for a bit. Easy peasy.
Ah, the refreshing voice of reasonMary R wrote:There is no way you will stain your insides with tea. Your entire digestive tract is lined with some variation of epithelial tissue, and that has some of the highest cell turn over in the entire body. That means it's constantly replenishing itself with new cells. Even if the old cells did get stained (which they won't...things move too fast and are in too acidic of an environment to do so), the stain would be gone within a matter of hours or days.
If I have to give up all my staining food, there goes pomegranates, tea, coffee, soy milk, soy sauce, hot sauce, berries, tomatoes, carrots/carrot juice, orange juice, er... pretty much everything! Blood stains pretty badly too, so I suppose we can't be having any of that inside us, lest our insides be blood-stained!
But seriously, that bright color and tendency to stain is if anything often linked to a food's healthful properties. Nutritionists often advise eating lots of brightly colored plant foods, which are high in phytonutrients. Bright, "staining" foods high in polyphenols and tannins, such as blueberries, red grapes/red wine, pomegranate, tea, currants, etc have been studied for a number of healthful properties.
So the moral of the story, consume lots of richly-colored green, blue, orange, and red foods/beverages and don't worry about turning colors
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Another reason to embrace greens and spurn the Dark Side!Salsero wrote:Very true. I think the darker teas tend to stain more, with the greens and light oolongs staining less.Grubby wrote: Well tea will stain one thing, and that is your teeth(it won't damage them though), so that is something to consider if you drink a lot of tea or coffee.
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Ah, carotene poisoning.Space Samurai wrote:My ex-wife ate so many carrots she turned orange.
I read about it in The orange man and other narratives of medical detection by Berton Roueche.
Re: How can tea be good for you when it stains so badly?
My Inner Tea Stain guides my moral compass and is the source of my love, have no fear!Solodays wrote:I fear that hardcore tea drinker will eventually clog up themselves with tea stain within.
Re: How can tea be good for you when it stains so badly?
Fabulous comment, I like itSmells_Familiar wrote:[
My Inner Tea Stain guides my moral compass and is the source of my love, have no fear!
