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What's the difference between cold brew iced tea bags and regular iced tea bags?

Lipton makes both varieties. They look identical and have identical ingredients but it says the cold brew variety is made differently.  

Posted - August 20, 2020
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  • 6477
    I have no idea.. .we don't have such fancy stuff in the UK :P Oh ok we have something relatively new, a fruit infusion type teabag that can be used in cold water to provide a kind of alternative to plain water. 
      August 20, 2020 1:31 PM MDT
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  • 7939
    Weird. Are the fruit teabags taking off there? Seems to me like they wouldn't with you guys being staunch traditionalists and all... speaking of which, do you even have iced tea???
      August 21, 2020 11:00 AM MDT
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  • 6477
    Indeed we do not have iced tea! Perish the thought! It would be almost akin to blasphemy to drink that here! Herbal and fruit warm teas are fairly popular here, indeed my good-self drinks those regularly.. But cold fruit and herbal tea? It's deviant I tell you! 
      August 21, 2020 12:32 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    I can only guess that cold brew is ground finer or more pungent leaves are used...maybe more mature.  However, black tea should only be brewed with boiling water.  The leaves can have a bacteria on them as well as the waste left by bugs that live on them.  That advice came from an executive at Lipton. This post was edited by Thriftymaid at August 21, 2020 11:01 AM MDT
      August 20, 2020 1:34 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    What about the pesticides? I'm less concerned about bacteria and bug waste than I am pesticides, to be honest. 
      August 20, 2020 6:46 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    If the tea is GMO you can do nothing to mitigate that.  If it's organic you don't have to worry about it. In either case brew with boiling water.  The possible illness is like food poisoning.....stomach cramps, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, dehydration.   I rarely buy tea since about 2013 so I don't know what is currently on the market shelves. 
      August 20, 2020 7:41 PM MDT
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  • 7939
    Interesting. Maybe no more cold brew for me. :/ Thank you for sharing!
      August 21, 2020 11:01 AM MDT
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  • 44608
    If you put it in the sun, UV light will kill all the critters. Do you get much sun there?
      August 21, 2020 12:57 PM MDT
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  • 44608
    As with many other things...marketing. The difference they talk about is the size of the bag.
      August 20, 2020 1:36 PM MDT
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  • 53509

     

      Wait, so size DOES matter?




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      August 20, 2020 2:52 PM MDT
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  • 44608
    LOL...I didn't catch that.
      August 20, 2020 3:58 PM MDT
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  • 7939
    No... they're actually the same size. 
      August 21, 2020 11:02 AM MDT
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  • 53509

     

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      August 21, 2020 11:12 AM MDT
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  • 7939
    lol Looks like somebody got a new app. 
      August 21, 2020 11:16 AM MDT
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  • 53509

     

      I’ve been using it since November. 

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      August 21, 2020 11:20 AM MDT
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  • 1953
    When you use regular tea bags and hot water your forcefully extracting the flavor out of the tea leaves, it's just a slower process with cold brewed tea bags. 
      August 20, 2020 1:39 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    YOUR YOU'RE. And I'm not deleting it!
      August 20, 2020 4:21 PM MDT
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  • 7408
    And how old are you? Ridiculous. I will repeat what I said, since it was deleted along with the entire thread. 

      

    It’s not cute, nor funny and it’s especially rude when someone is new to a site and is still getting to know the personalities here. I’m sure some of the regulars get sick of constantly having their auto corrects and typos pointed out to them too, most people come here for fun or while doing other things, like work or other sites. So spelling and grammar are not our top priority, it’s annoying but we put up with it.  If I was a new member and getting corrected in public by someone I don’t know, in front of others I don’t know.. I wouldn’t bother with settling in with this place at all. 

    This post was edited by Jaimie at August 21, 2020 12:58 PM MDT
      August 20, 2020 5:00 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Maybe, but Echooos joined in 2016, so he isn't new.
      August 20, 2020 5:02 PM MDT
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  • 1953
    Ok...
      August 21, 2020 8:00 AM MDT
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  • Probably next to nothing.  The tea portions for cold brew vs. regular might be a little different but other than that I couldn't imagine.  You can cold brew any kind of tea. 
      August 20, 2020 1:55 PM MDT
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  • 34272
    Nothing.
      August 20, 2020 2:10 PM MDT
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  • 53509

       You weren’t happy enough having started the Sour Cream War, you just insist on branching out to a Tea War?


    https://answermug.com/forums/topic/113831/life-changing-question-1-when-liquid-forms-at-the-top-of-the-so


      August 20, 2020 2:49 PM MDT
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  • 34272
    The Answermug Tea party....
      August 20, 2020 2:55 PM MDT
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