Is Your Tea Full of Pesticides?

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By Christina Sarich

If you are worried about GMO sugar beets, corn, or soy, you should think again when it comes to steeping your favorite cup of tea. Herbs like spearmint or peppermint are allowed 100 times higher the levels of glyphosate than some GM foods, and the first time pesticides are washed off of these herbs is often in your cup.

According to Peter Goggi, a spokesman for The Tea Association of the USA, the amount of commercial pesticide in your cup is “a very low amount,” but recent research into some samples taken of various tea brands says that is far …read more

Read more here: naturalsociety.com

    

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