Good quality teas don't need sugar. Asian grocery stores are a great source of higher quality teas that aren't just the commodity grade tea dust that is in your average lipton tea bag.
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Good quality teas don't need sugar.
People are going to add condiments regardless of what purists think. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Third panel, keyhole in the door.
Green tea can be high in oxalates and most likely was responsible for my first kidney stone.
But when think the comic is pointing out hypocrisy as opposed to the heath benefits of one product vs another
I remember when I was young I worked outside in the heat and drank just iced tea all summer long.
That also led to 12 hours writhing on the floor of the ER and my first experience in understanding how death can be preferable to life. The stone passed fine eventually once it got to the bladder, but the path from the kidney to bladder was some of the most violent, life-shattering pain I could have imagined.
I relate so much except mine shattered and I required a ureteroscopy to go pull out the 3 fragments, after 48 hours of intense pain.
You can look up ureteroscopy as a procedure if you like, but I can assure you it is just as much fun to have done as it is to spell
If you drank it with milk you'd have been fine
Thanks .. I'll let my self know that 4 years ago.
I like my tea without sugar :3. Unless it's linden blossom tea, or raspberry branch tea, then I add a teaspoon of honey ^^
Yeah I find sweetened tea unnecessary - tea is delicious all by itself.
Sometimes at the drive through they’ll give me sweet tea instead of unsweetened, and the sip of that hits me like a freight train. I don’t know how people stomach it.
Sweet tea, at least proper sweet tea, isn't really about the tea. The tea is just there to add some color and a subtle note to make it caramel water instead of sugar water. It's pure diabeetus juice, but it knows what it is. Like many methodical killers, it has a clarity of purpose that can be acknowledged and respected.
The real question is why are you punishing yourself by drinking unsweetened iced tea? That's just cold dishwater that no one respects.
Because it tastes good.
Oh I've had a sip of other people's tea before and it had so much sweetener it didn't even taste like tea lol :3
I don't drink tea but the last time someone asked for sugar in a tea I was making was over 5 years ago.
Listen, you're not wrong. Regularly drop a spoonful of honey and a squirt of lemon in my tea drinks.
But also soda is fucking awful for you. The carbonation combined with the sugar absolutely wrecks your teeth.
Goddamnit. Why is it that everything enjoyable is bad for you? 😡
For those that don't want to click the link.
Drinking carbonated water once in a while likely won’t harm your enamel. However, regular consumption—especially sipping throughout the day—can lower your mouth’s pH and stress your enamel far more than you might expect.
We tend to take a thing that is naturally pleasant and overload people with it.
So, like, a little bit of sugar is supposed to signal ripeness and edibility. But then we take the signal and divorce it from the actual foodstuff, concentrate it, and overload it into a beverage that has no actual nutritional value. This intense sensation
If you stick to those mildly flavored bubble waters, you get the enjoyment of a bubbly beverage and the slight tang of fruit, without the sugar/caffeine bomb. Alternatively, just squeeze some lemon into hot water (or mild tea). Delicious, good for your throat, warms you up, and your dentist won't be filling a dozen cavities the next time you see him.
You’re tight. I was referring to how even sparkling water is bad for you.
I mean, the carbonation isn't great. But it's the sugar that really kills you.
“I LIKE MY SUGAR WITH COFFEE AND CREAM!” - Beastie Boys
I have half a teaspoon in my tea. There are 10 per can of coke.
Honey goes in tea
Somewhat related:
Honey = Bee vomit.
Coffee = hot bean water
Milk = modified cow blood.
So I think drinking hot coffee with honey and milk is about one of the weirdest mixtures of substances known to humanity.
Lotta people in these comments not realizing the sugar reveal in the comic doesn't mean it's not still mocking smug tea drinkers.
Doesn't some tea like black tea contribute to kidney stones?
Tannins in general have some correlation with kidney stones. So does soda though lol. Not sure anyone has cross-compared as the baseline is usually taken as water.