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10 PESTICIDE FREE TEAS

This amazing guest post was written by Tammy Catania,  a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, and Certified Holistic Life Coach! You can check out her website here!

One of the first things I do when I am feeling under the weather is to make myself a cup of tea, but what you don`t expect when you pour that healing cup is that it is laced with harmful chemicals. Who would have thought that every time you make a tea you are really making yourself pesticide soup? You may be thinking, “pesticides in my tea?”

Interestingly tea is the world’s most popular beverage. It’s astonishing the amount of tea that Canadians drink; it’s about 10 billion cups a year. Canadians 16 and older drink 83 litres per person every year, a number that has been increasing. Even my toddler has Chamomile teawhen he isn’t feeling well. Now I wonder how much of that tea is actually safe to drink? CBC Marketplace has found those answers for us.

Testing Teas for Pesticides

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According to a report done by CBC Marketplace pesticides in some tea exceed the allowable limit. CBC had 10 different teas tested by an accredited lab, the lab used the same testing method as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Half of the teas tested contained pesticide residues above the allowable limits in Canada. As per the test results eight of the 10 brands tested contained multiple chemicals, with one brand containing residues of 22 different pesticides. (1)

But what actually is the allowable pesticide residue in tea? As per the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, it is 0.1ppm. (2)

Other Countries Are Banning These Ingredients

Two of the chemicals that they found are actually in the process of being banned in other countries.

One of the chemicals found was Endosulfan. This chemical is one of the most toxic pesticides on the market today. It is responsible for many fatal pesticide poisoning incidents around the world. Endosulfan is also a xenoestrogen—a synthetic substance that imitates or enhances the effect of estrogens—and it can act as an endocrine disruptor, causing reproductive and developmental damage in both animals and humans. (3)

Other Countries Are Banning These Ingredients

Two of the chemicals that they found are actually in the process of being banned in other countries.

One of the chemicals found was Endosulfan. This chemical is one of the most toxic pesticides on the market today. It is responsible for many fatal pesticide poisoning incidents around the world. Endosulfan is also a xenoestrogen—a synthetic substance that imitates or enhances the effect of estrogens—and it can act as an endocrine disruptor, causing reproductive and developmental damage in both animals and humans. (3)

Out of all the teas that were tested, the only one that came back clean was the Red Rose Pekoe. (Here is the full test report from CBC marketplaces lab.)

Did you know that pesticides have been linked to a wide range of human health hazards, ranging from short-term impacts such as headaches and nausea to chronic impacts like cancer, reproductive harm, and endocrine disruption. Some of the Acute dangers – such as nerve, skin, and eye irritation and damage,  headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue, and systemic poisoning – can sometimes be dramatic, and even occasionally fatal. (5)

Some of the symptoms of Mild Poisoning or Early Symptoms of Acute Poisoning are headache, fatigue, weakness, dizziness, restlessness, nervousness, perspiration, nausea, diarrhea, loss of appetite, loss of weight, thirst, moodiness, soreness in joints, skin irritation, eye irritation, irritation of the nose and throat. (6)

The good news is that there are still safe pesticide-free tea brands out there, and here are a few that I approve of.

Top 10 Safe Tea Brand

 

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Source: The Heaty Soul

By:Tammy Catania

http://theheartysoul.com/pesticide-free-teas/