Loose Leaf Tea is better

Why would anyone go about doing all the work for loose leaf tea when lots of companies are bagging the tea for you? Well, in short, loose leaf tea is better for you in almost every way.

Loose leaf tea retains it's flavour much more than bagged tea. This is because the process to get to bagging can be flavour reducing and the quality simply isn't there. It is very easy to put a lower grade tea in a bag as a bag masks any imperfections in the tea and therefore the quality doesn't have to be as stringent. In loose tea the product is readily exposed and there is no way to mask the tea or use a lesser quality tea as it would be obvious immediately.

To add to that, loose leaf tea usually has a shorter shelf life as it is unprocessed. This means that the tea will have more flavour as the tea was picked more recently. On top of that, most loose leaf tea sellers have a 6-8 month shelf life for their tea, who knows how long the bagged tea has been sitting at the company or on the grocery store shelves, it could be months if not years.

Another key benefit of loose leaf tea is you can moderate the amount of tea you'd like for you and your guests. With bagged tea the only moderation you can have is adding an extra bag for more people, but that hardly seems reasonable or accurate. For instance, if a bag is good for one person, and 2 bags is good for two people, how many are needed for a dozen people?

For these reasons, along with the experience of having better tea, InspiredInfusions.com only sells loose leaf tea. We're picky, we're proud of it, and we like it.

- I only write for as long as it takes to steep my tea, so that's all for now.

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