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Welcome to the tea and health section of the website. This channel is designed to provide health professionals with the latest range of scientific data and nutritional information emerging for tea and we would like you to agree to treat it as such . Like fruit and vegetables and other nutritional foods, teas positive contribution to diet must be seen in the context of a general healthy lifestyle.
If you are not a health professional you are very welcome to visit the site and we hope you will find the various sections informative.

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MYTHS

  1. Does tea count to your 8 cups of fluid a day?

TRUTHS

Does tea count to your 8 cups of fluid a day?

Tea contains 99.5% water. It is an important source of fluid and can count towards your daily intake of 8 cups of fluid. Both the Food Standards Agency and the British Dietetic Association advise that tea can help to meeting daily fluid requirements.
- Tea consumption does not produce a diuretic effect unless the amount of tea consumed at one sitting contained more than 300mg of caffeine. This is equivalent to six or seven cups of tea at one sitting.
- Single servings of caffeine at doses exceeding 300mg may have a diuretic effect.
- However, a tolerance to caffeine develops so in the unlikely event of there being any diuretic effect, this effect is diminished in people who regularly drink tea.

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