How many tea leaves are there in one tea bag?

Answer 1

None. Not one. Tea bags in nearly all cases are made out of the sweepings when the 'full leaf tea' has already been carted away and sold. What you've got left, that just, is made into tea bags. They tend to be more acidic than full leaf tea, as they contain more tannin which is formed when a leaf is cut. The same sort of thing causes lettuce to go brown.

Try buying some real tea for a change... 'gunpowder' is a green tea usually made from the full leaf. After it's been in the teapot for five minutes you can have a look at it, and sea what a real tea leaf looks like.

Answer 2

Tea bags usually contain the dried up broken waste that remains after the good tea leaves have been packaged and distributed.

Basically, most tea in tea bags is just one step above what falls on the floor.

Answer 3

that will depend on the size of the leaves and the make of tea bag
and the type of tea. In an ordinary tea bag the tea is almost like powder

Answer 4

How long is a piece of string?

Try weighing say 20 leaves on an electronic scale, write that down and then weigh the whole contents of the teabag and divide it by the weight of 20 leaves then multiply the answer by 20 and so you should find out.

Why do you want to know, anyway!!???

Answer 5

According to the E.U. investigating committee set up to research and draw up rules to regulate the number; there should be 742, not exceeding 1 mm in length.

Answer 6

Every time I try to count them I drop one and have to start all over again.

Answer 7

2 or 3 shredded into hundreds of bits.

Answer 8

I am counting them now if you keep this question open for a week i be back with the answer ..lol

Answer 9

Regrettably, none. These marketing guys are brilliant, arn't they? Fancy, drinking all those sweepings. Never mind, you could be drinking instant coffee!

Answer 10

I think 1017