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How/Why? Is that an oblique nod to insect protein, how does tea contain protein? 🀒 + 3 CALORIES?!

Edit: there's no milk or anything milk-related

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tea is made from plants. All plants have proteins. The parts of the plant that we eat may or may not be a good source of protein for humans.

Practically all Chinese, Indian, and English teas are all made from the same species of plant, Camellia sinensis, simply known as a tea tree. If you were to eat the leaves they would be a good source of protein and fiber, not to mention vitamins and antioxidants. However, we discard the leaves with the fiber, and typical ways of preparing the leaves and the tea can decrease the protein and antioxidants. Its possible your brand flash freezes tthe leaves or uses some other method to try and preserve these nutrients. Ive seen some English teas that are powder you mix in instead of steeping, and this would work as well. In fact, tea leaves are absolutely edible! If you get a decent to high quality tea you can take your leaves after you make tea and throw them in a smoothie, soup, or even eggs and youll get the rest of the nutrients left in them and wont be thowing food in the bin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Frankly? OP's either a child, a troll, or both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Hate to break it to you, but all food can have a certain amount of bugs, poop, hair, etc per the FDA

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, can have. Not must have.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

On that same pedantic note: they're not minimums, they're testable limits. Testable. As in, not every batch is, nor every thousand...

Also, somebody here's gonna love finding out how much of their own body mass is bacteria, parasites, and just plain dead. Not to mention that everything pasteurized still has the corpses of the "cleaned" microbes floating in it.

Life is gross. Get over it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All food in the USA. The FDA has no jurisdiction anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If you think food magically doesnt have any contamination with bugs etc. elsewhere I have some ocean front property in Wyoming to sell you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Did you know that people who develop an allergy to cockroaches find they also react to preground coffee.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Also, poop is in the air around you whenever you're in an enclosed space, per the Mythbusters

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Most food contains bugs. Its unlikely that it would be a large enough quantity to change the nutrition labels.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I used to work with health inspectors, when talking about my work I would describe what they do as β€œ You know the guys who go into restaurants and say β€˜I’m shutting you down there’re too many cockroaches in the soup’”

About 1 person in 10 notices I said too many cockroaches.

Restaurants are allowed to have a certain amount of bug parts in soup.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Corporate has clarified that they use the ingredient Not Bugs^TM^

"It's definitely Not Bugs^TM^!"*

spoiler*Not Bugs ^TM^ or may not contain no less than 12% bugs

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just so everyone knows, since upvotes are public on the Fediverse anyway, I only upvoted this because it was the first response I saw when I opened the thread and it caused me to physically crack up laughing.

For shame on your immature and uninformative comment, otherwise. For shaaaaaame.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is the internet, friend! You should be free from judgement for upvoting cum!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Semens to me that cumclusion is jizzt right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I need to ejaculate myself from this dangerous situation

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was curious so I looked it up but everything I could find said 0% protein for Tazo English breakfast, so I went to my box of tea, another brand English breakfast, and alongside the table with the information for just the tea infusion (calories are specified as less than 4kcal, <4kcal) is another table for a serving with 30ml semi-skimmed milk with 1.2g protein. Could you post maybe a picture of the labeling?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I tried Imgur but couldn't get it to work. You're just going to have to take my word for it until we have the technology :(

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its bugs sweetie now go lay down for nap time

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Maybe a nice 69 would do muh some good πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

If you ever eaten anything made with any grain, you have eaten some amount of bugs. Just like you have eaten some amount of dirt.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

All living or once living things have protein in them. Tea is no exception.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Tea in general has 0g of protein according to the Harvard School of Public Health

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is that when made with milk or the straight black tea?

If it's straight black, then it sounds like you have some breakfast in your tea πŸ˜’

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Tazo English Breakfast (straight black tea)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Tazo often gets fancy with the spices. Are there any other ingredients listed?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Tazo is Lipton, as someone else explained here.

The big bagged tea supermarket brands don't get even the bad quality tea leaves. They buy the remains and dust no one else wants.

That's why the bags have such fine mesh. And also why them having any amount of protein isn't entirely unexpected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ingredients: black tea

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Though rare, some herbal teas might have tiny amounts of protein left from the plant they are made from. Some other things they added in to the tea, like for flavor, might also contain protein.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

English tea, so is that with milk?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Unless the milk is in the teabag than probably not

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Nooooo??!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if this is the case in the US, but a lot of food products here in the UK have a version of the nutritional information which is "prepared as directed". Breakfast cereal is often shown as "x grams with y ml semi-skimmed milk" for example. Is your tea doing something like this and giving you values for brewing it and adding a splash of milk, perhaps?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, it hasn't anything to do with milk. Usually, they have the side by side comparative chart for with/without milk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I was curious and looked on the tazo website.

For Tazo Awake English breakfast tea the label says "based on tea brewed with freshly boiled water for 5 minutes (no milk, no sugar), an 8 fl oz cup typically contains insignificant amounts of calories, fats, carbohydrates, sugars, protein and sodium".

Seems weird for yours to have such a significant difference even if its a slightly different type, could you post an image?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Tazo, also, it has3 calories ☠️

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Tazo is a subbrand of Lipton which itself is a sub brand of Unilever. I was unable to find any English Breakfast on their website that the nutrition label stated it had 2 grams of protein. Every tea I saw had 0 listed.

Pretty popular in the US, so I do drink them from time to time and they arent bad, but I dont advise to eat the leaves when you are done. The leaves are very highly processed, and they dont really care if other things get mixed into the tea peaves before processing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I was confused by this as well. I looked it up and couldn't find any label that had 2g of protein. The most I found was their Vanilla Chai which contains 0.1g.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

2 grams of protein is 8 calories so something you've said is untrue. If not post a picture.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Can you give me a quick 123 list on how to do that?

  1. Take pic
  2. ?
  3. ?
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Take pic

upload pic to imgur

open imgur image in new tab, so you get the full address, including extension (probably .jpeg) at the end

post comment ![](insert_imgur_link_here)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

instructions posted 3 days ago, where picture?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seriously? How the fuck do you not know how to upload an image? That's grandma level tech illiteracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

How is this helpful? It would have cost you zero to just not be a dick.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

1 g of protein = 4 calories, so something is off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

What country?