Add your tea bag to hot water. Wait 30 seconds. Pour that water out and add fresh hot water to bag. Steep for another 3 and half minutes.
When tea is steeped for more than 4 minutes total, the oxalates start to leach out. Oxalates are associated with renal stones.
Now I don’t have any proof of any of this. I learned this at a nutritional seminar years ago.
If anyone has the ability to test for caffeine or oxalates, let me know if the above formulas hold true.
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