Researchers from the University of Georgia (UGA) say that one cup of black tea provides an additional line of defense against possible infection by "inactivating" the so-called virus inside the mouth.
Five different tea varieties – raspberry zinger, eucalyptus mint, mint medley, green tea and black tea – were evaluated as part of the research, each one prepared with a single tea bag steeped for 10 minutes. All of the teas were found to reduce the prevalence of COVID by 96 percent within 10 seconds of contact in the mouth.
Of the five teas tested, black tea was found to be the most effective, reducing COVID infection potential by an astounding 99.9 percent.
"At this stage, we are not suggesting tea as a stand-alone intervention against COVID because the virus also replicates in the nose and may have already reached the lung by the time a person tests positive," commented Malak Esseili, a virologist at UGA who led the study.
"But tea can be an additional layer of intervention that the patients and their families can easily adopt on a routine basis."...<<<Read More>>>...