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Default Chewing and Swallowing Green Tea Leaves

George Cherry wrote...
> "Juhana Harju" > wrote in message
>>Have you considered that tea leaves have a very high content of fluoride?

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> Perhaps not as much as the tea infusion:
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> Fluoride Content of tea
>
> Leaf tea
> Fluoride concentration in tea infusion 1.12 (mg/ l )
> Dissolvable fluoride in tea leaf 0.28 (mg/ g)
>
> Bagged tea
> Fluoride concentration in tea infusion 2.08 (mg/ l )
> Dissolvable fluoride in tea leaf 0.52 (mg/ g)
>
> (Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology (2003)
> 13, 66 - 73)
> this is by a team in Taiwan.


That sucks because I am addicted to green tea. I consume at least 4 tea
bags a day (served with fruit juices, honey, and ginseng extract, yum!)
and the thought that it could be unhealthy is terrifying. Is the high
level of fluoride the result of biology or soil contamination?