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New Delhi: Now we will do a shocking analysis for tea lovers. By the way, most of you will go to sleep after watching DNA and we hope that you must have eaten dinner during this time. But today we want to discuss something important with you on tea. According to a new study, the tea you drink for freshness. That tea can cause serious diseases like cancer.
Be careful tea drinkers!
The Tea Board of India, Government of India, has issued an advisory asking people to beware of adulterated tea leaves. In India, 80 percent of the households have a practice of drinking tea with milk. You keep hearing the news of adulteration in milk, but the adulteration in tea leaves is surprising.
Real tea is identified by its leaves, color and aroma. But the tea leaves which get spoiled during production are not considered fit for use. In such a situation, synthetic colors and chemicals are used to aromatize and change the color of the spoiled tea leaves, for which the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has made strict rules.
Liver and kidney risk
Under these rules, tea leaves have to meet a total of 34 parameters. During this time, if any kind of synthetic colors and chemicals are used in tea leaves, then these adulterated tea leaves can give you serious diseases.
Due to this there is a risk of Hypertension. If someone drinks 10 cups of adulterated tea in a day, then his liver and kidney can be damaged. Apart from this, adulterated tea can also cause cancer.
After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the whole world. The great Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu called tea the elixir of life. But this study shows that even tea is no longer pure. Therefore, if you also think that a cup of tea will cure you when you have a headache or a bad mood, then you can also be wrong. Because the tea which is considered a vaccine for many problems, now that tea leaf has also been adulterated.
If you like to drink tea like these people, then you should beware of adulterated tea leaves. Because adulterated tea leaves can give your body a return gift of diseases like cancer.
In India, 80 percent of the people drink a cup of tea after waking up in the morning or during breakfast. According to another survey, 7 out of 10 people in India believe that they drink more than two cups a day. But it is also difficult for these people to imagine that the tea which they consider to be the solution to their every problem, that tea leaf can make them very sick.
Tea is an integral part of the lifestyle of the people of India, most people start their morning with a cup of tea and welcome the evening with tea. When you go to someone’s house, the person in front of you asks lovingly, one should have tea, and if it is not so, then people feel bad and say that they were not even asked for a cup of tea. But imagine, what if you come to know that you are drinking adulterated tea?
It is not very difficult to identify genuine and adulterated tea leaves. You can save yourself from adulterated tea leaves by keeping some things in mind. If you drink tea and someone tells you that he will make you drink tea today, then maybe you will not be able to refuse. For many people in India, it is not easy to refuse tea. But if you want to avoid this danger, then you should make it a habit to differentiate between real and adulterated tea leaves because this habit will save you from many diseases.
It is believed that tea was discovered about 5000 years ago in China. Then Shen Nong, the second emperor of the history of China, stayed with his army for some time in a far-flung area. He had a habit of drinking boiled water. While his servants were boiling water for him, some leaves from a nearby tree fell into the water and the water turned brown in colour. But when the emperor drank it as boiled water, he liked its taste and felt very fresh. It is said that from here the tradition of making tea started in China, in China it was called Cha.
Today, in terms of production of tea, India is second only to China in the whole world. The price of a variety of Darjeeling tea in India is Rs 2 lakh per kg. Tea is said to have entered India hundreds of years ago through the Silk Route. But the credit of formally introducing the people of India to tea goes to the British.
It was the British who first started planting tea gardens in India in the 1830s. But it is also a fact that till the 16th century, the western countries did not even see tea, in the 17th and 18th centuries, the people of Europe were introduced to tea. But then tea used to be very expensive for the people of Europe and it was smuggled to the countries of Europe.
