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hidden@cawfee.club
British people get so mad at me when I mention they’ll get fluoride poisoning if they drink fifteen cups of tea a day
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Turdicus
Turdicus@poa.st@hidden whoa whoa whoa. maybe they WANT fluoride poisoning. they need to think of their teeth ya know
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hidden@cawfee.club
@druid The tea plant itself is a fluoride hyper accumulator. A cup of tea has a lot more fluoride than a cup of American tapwater
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@arcana Tea is very high in fluoride!
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hidden@cawfee.club
@druid No problem! I learned because I found out that the number 1 source of "What the hell does too much fluoride do?" in the world is rural villages with tea based economies
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Mysterious charmer
benis_redux@cawfee.club
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k@shitposter.world
k@shitposter.world
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@druid Interesting. Probably rare but if they drink fluoridated water and oops swallow toothpaste and eat too much shrimp I can see it happening. Especially if they drink a lot as a child, that's when the damage is done usually. Skeletal fluorosis is extremely common in India, which has about 3x the water fluoride levels America does (naturally occurring, India doesn't add fluoride), and China has very high rates too since they produce a lot of brick tea and al dross which gets fluoride into their water sources, not to mention running through China and India is a "fluoride belt" which is a natural formation where all the rocks and Earth has particularly high levels of fluoride.
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@arcana Avoid Chinese tea, buy Japanese if possible. Or test it yourself. Some brands are much lower in fluoride.
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arcana@layer02.net
arcana@layer02.net
@hidden I drink Yorkshire Tea, grown in India, Ceylon, and Kenyan
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@arcana Those are all in a fluoride belt but should be lower than China probably
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arcana@layer02.net
arcana@layer02.net
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Can’t we grow tea in greenhouses in Europe? We should embargo those places until they fix their toxic soil
Can’t we grow tea in greenhouses in Europe? We should embargo those places until they fix their toxic soil
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@arcana Probably possible to do that yeah. Health concerns aren't really a thing unless a person is drinking like 10+ cups of black tea a day, but if you do drink that much issues could start to pop up after some decades. White tea and green tea should be safer since they're harvested earlier
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arcana@layer02.net
arcana@layer02.net
@hidden yeah I only drink black with milk and sugar, don’t like herbal tea really.
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cine@cawfee.club
@hidden @druid Interesting. It's the same volcanic activity around here that makes the soils so fertile, who would've known it's also what causes tea to be toxic. I did know about the fluoride content in tea, however. It was listed as one of of the reasons some people use it as mouthwash. I have, however, chosen it as my poison to let it kill me.
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tea so delicious
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@gav @hidden @druid @tamamizu Oolong is semi-oxidized, so kind of like "almost black tea", and is often processed in other ways (rolling, putting in a vacuum) to bring out different flavors.
I think red tea is what they call black tea in china, but what we call red tea is herbal tea from the rooibos plant, which grows in south africa.
There's also puerh, which is like fermented tea.
I saw some study saying that black tea has the highest levels of fluoride, but you'd have to drink a lot of it to exceed the healthy limit.
I think red tea is what they call black tea in china, but what we call red tea is herbal tea from the rooibos plant, which grows in south africa.
There's also puerh, which is like fermented tea.
I saw some study saying that black tea has the highest levels of fluoride, but you'd have to drink a lot of it to exceed the healthy limit.
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@genmaicha @hidden @druid @tamamizu i went through google results its contradictory, one had numbers green tea just had a really wide range but its bottom was identical to black, i think tea quality totally overrides any natural difference
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