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

  • @Unlearned9545
    link
    619 months ago

    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.

    • littleblue✨
      link
      49 months ago

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

      • netburnr
        link
        English
        299 months ago

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

        • @foggy
          link
          109 months ago

          Well, can have. Not must have.

          • littleblue✨
            link
            11
            edit-2
            9 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.

          • @xkforce
            link
            19 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.

        • Bobby Turkalino
          link
          fedilink
          English
          29 months ago

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

        • @someguy3
          link
          2
          edit-2
          9 months ago

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

      • @Unlearned9545
        link
        189 months ago

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

      • @dgmib
        link
        8
        edit-2
        9 months ago

        I used to work with health inspectors, when talking about my work I would describe what they do as “ You know the guys who go into restaurants and say ‘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.

      • @TheActualDevil
        link
        59 months ago

        Corporate has clarified that they use the ingredient Not BugsTM

        “It’s definitely Not BugsTM!”*

        spoiler

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

    • FaceDeer
      link
      fedilink
      269 months ago

      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.

      • flicker
        link
        fedilink
        79 months ago

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

        • @mojofrododojo
          link
          English
          49 months ago

          Semens to me that cumclusion is jizzt right.

          • @cheese_greaterOP
            link
            39 months ago

            I need to ejaculate myself from this dangerous situation

  • ThankYouVeryMuch
    link
    fedilink
    269 months ago

    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?

    • @cheese_greaterOP
      link
      19 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 :(

  • @quams69
    link
    189 months ago

    Its bugs sweetie now go lay down for nap time

  • @monkeyman512
    link
    English
    119 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.

  • @xkforce
    link
    79 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    59 months ago

    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 😒

    • @cheese_greaterOP
      link
      2
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      Tazo English Breakfast (straight black tea)

      • @ChicoSuave
        link
        2
        edit-2
        9 months ago

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

        • Kbin_space_program
          link
          fedilink
          59 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.

  • @AsudoxM
    link
    49 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.

      • @Unlearned9545
        link
        7
        edit-2
        9 months ago

        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.

        • Captain Janeway
          link
          69 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.

      • @TooPoor
        link
        59 months ago

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

  • @fraddron
    link
    39 months ago

    English tea, so is that with milk?

    • @cheese_greaterOP
      link
      -29 months ago

      Unless the milk is in the teabag than probably not

      • Skua
        link
        fedilink
        39 months ago

        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?

        • @cheese_greaterOP
          link
          -39 months ago

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

          • @Globulart
            link
            59 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?