Tea Time

It's In the Bag
If you're a tea drinker and believe in its health benefits, then you need to know what the perfect brewing temperature is to yield those benefits.
According to Toxicology Letters, researchers at the Food Safety and Toxicology Center of Michigan State University in Lansing studied the question of which brewing temperature yielded the best extracts of polyphenols, the chemicals in tea that have all the health benefits.
The answer turns out to be 176 degrees Fahrenheit (80 degrees Celsius). Anything less won't extract the same levels of polyphenols, and anything more will damage the polyphenols with too much heat.