On average, the American people drink more than 2.25 billion gallons of tea a year. Not surprising, over 85% of the population prefer ice tea while the remainder prefer to sip a cup of hot tea. Hot tea just isn’t that popular here in the U.S. If you do the math, it works out to approximately 132 cups per person per year. Most folks I know drink 1-2 glasses of ice tea with every meal.
That sounds like a lot of tea but it still lags far behind the rest of the world in tea consumption. Most of the tea drinkers in the United States can be found in the northeast and the south where tea is routinely served as part of a meal. China, Japan and other parts of Asia consume appreciably more tea that the U.S.
On-going research is revealing that at this level of tea intake may offer noteworthy health benefits. In addition to tea’s involvement to increasing our overall daily fluid intake, it increasing the presence of influential antioxidants called flavonoids. What is the nutritional value of tea? Tea by itself has no calories so you […]

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