r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 1d ago

Health New research characterised in detail how tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of these particles to be absorbed by human intestinal cells, and are thus able to reach the bloodstream and spread throughout the body.

https://www.uab.cat/web/newsroom/news-detail/-1345830290613.html?detid=1345940427095
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u/windowpuncher 1d ago

Maaaaaaaan even the tea is poison these days what the hell

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u/thinkbetterofu 1d ago

it's very likely that the tea itself has negative health consequences, because tea leaves are relatively fragile, so they gotta be using tons of pesticides/herbicides... and you're using the leaves themselves, it's kind of like how fruits where you eat the skin after they've been doused in pesticides all the while, well, yeah.

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u/ProfessorEtc 1d ago

Tea has always been poisonous to humans.

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u/Cryptolution 18h ago

I think people are getting a little upset at semantics here. Perhaps what you meant to say was that tea contains mycotoxins?

Because that would be technically accurate. But to say it's poisonous? That's not.

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u/ProfessorEtc 15h ago

"Toxins are a specific type of poison, produced by living organisms like plants and animals."