A lid may be enough to protect the brewed tea in the fridge for a short time. But for an extended period, you should pour the tea into an airtight container. That helps your tea avoid all the food odors in the fridge.
The same applies to fruits as they also contain sugar. Also, their acidity can spoil the tea. Even with careful storage methods, your tea can go wrong at any time.
But how to identify them correctly is a tricky question for many people. Fresh tea leaves always have a distinctive smell. You can identify their quality just by opening the container and smell them. Or you can first try to brew some of the tea leaves. Tea leaves, or tea bags, will obviously degrade in quality over time.
And that shows clearly through the flavor when you brew them. With close attention, you can notice the changes in their color. For example, green teas will become more yellow.
And dark teas, like black tea, will get some gray colors mixing in between. You can use the three indicators above to examine your brewed tea too, although the symptoms are a bit different.
You should look at the color of your brewed tea first. Whether it changes color or molds appear inside the tea, you should discard it immediately. It can smell quite rotten because of the fermentation process. This is the last resort to check your brewed tea. Brewed tea that has gone bad tastes either acidic or bitter. Some have said, it takes a lifetime to learn about tea. But you can shorten that process by keeping on reading this article to the end.
Here is the explanation to some common issues concerning tea and its shelf life. Of course, you can unless you find molds in those tea leaves. But let me say one thing first: That tea will not taste delicious. Yes, you can, but only 2 times at most. After that, you should discard it. However, keep in mind that your following cup will taste blander and weaker than the first one.
To preserve your used tea bag for the second use, you should cool it down at room temperature then put it in the airtight container to avoid air exposure.
After that, you can place the container in the fridge until the next time. Without proper care, mold can still grow in tea bags. In fact, mold appears on any organic materials under the right circumstances with humidity, temperature, and air circulation. Thus, you should follow the instructions on how to store them. Speaking of flavor, the CDC also recommends brewing your tea in water hot enough to kill off any possible pathogens degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
For some reason, hot-brewed tea is just more delicate than its cold-brewed sibling. Theoretically, the water never gets warm enough to facilitate bacterial growth, and the cold water extraction process results in a crisper, cleaner beverage that tends to taste great for days in the fridge. It should be noted that when the CDC released its initial guidelines to answer the question of how long does tea last in the fridge, it was and the cold brewing craze was still over a decade off; everyone was making sun tea, or brewing tea hot and icing it down.
That said, use the brew method you feel is best and safest for you. No matter which method you choose or how long you feel comfortable storing your tea, make sure you are using clean, sterilized brewing and storage vessels.
If your iced tea vessel has a spigot, make sure you clean that thoroughly as well. Some tea bags do contain whole leaves, but they tend to be larger, to allow the leaves room to expand. To keep your tea flavorful and flavonoid-rich for one to two years, transfer your tea bags or leaves to an airtight container as soon as possible after purchase, and store it away from the stove and sink. Do the benefits of drinking raw milk outweigh the risks? Should I be worried about the recent outbreak of dog flu?
Skip to main content. While containers of loose leaf tea contain mostly whole and broken leaves, tea bags usually are filled with fannings and dust.
Of course, some tea bags usually those pyramid-shaped ones include whole and broken leaves, but those are the minority. The same is true for coffee : coffee beans keep quality for much longer than grounds. Furthermore, these tend to yield stronger brews because of better flavor extraction due to large surface area.
So if you like your tea strong, tea bags are the way to go. Some tea cartons come in plastic wrapping. Sometimes even the individual tea bags are wrapped. That plastic is there to preserve the freshness of tea by protecting it from oxygen, moisture, and any strong smells. And that their flavor starts to decline only after you remove the wrap. Moreover, individual wrapping is pretty much a must in any box containing more than one tea flavor.
Otherwise, all the smells and tastes would blend into an off-tasting mix.
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