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If I recall correctly, the tea plant is great at taking up certain heavy metals from the soil. Quick search turned up something https://www.scribd.com/doc/2445
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
If I recall correctly, the tea plant is great at taking up certain heavy metals from the soil.
Quick search turned up something https://www.scribd.com/doc/24451227/Analysis-of-Heavy-Metals-in-Tea https://www.scribd.com/doc/24451227/Analysis-of-Heavy-Metals...
Lead, Mercury, arsenic, aluminium, copper.
Could be a concern?
- illiac_1962 8y agoYep. If you research green tea throughly this comes up as a major concern leading one to learn that it is very difficult to obtain any green tea that is free of toxins. Supposedly one of the best was regular Lipton tea bags.
- nabla9 8y agoMonitoring of essential and heavy metals in green tea from different geographical origins https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4762913/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4762913/ Same for many edible seeds. For example pumpkin seed and sunflower seed have high hyperaccumulation capacity.
- scns 8y agoAnother concern should be the Fukushima disaster, close to japans biggest teacultivation areas.