Prioritization and Reasonings: Is the tea likely to be healthier?
TLDR: The Tea Tavern prioritizes products that are more likely to be healthy, when comparing across options.
The Tea Tavern finds the following to be current situations.
- There are many methods of farming tea.
- Use of pesticides to prevent being killed by insects
- Use of fertilizers to improve growth in various areas.
- (TODO: Find terminology and research) Plants are cut for the purpose of producing more leaves from the plant
- Farming in different elevations
- Tea is not always good for people
- Some teas are not stored well, thus get undesirable growths.
- And different people have different tolerances to the chemicals within tea.
- Some teas make people sick (there are various possibilities for this).
- There are beliefs about the health of drinking tea (research is needed to prove these are true)
- Tea is useful for health in some form like "helps with digestion".
- Has more, less, or equal amounts of caffeine compared to coffee.
Due to the wide variety of tea that exists, how do we know that a tea will be better for our tavern patrons and local community?
(TODO: Obtain the following) Research has been done to show that pesticides used to protect plants have the capability of ending up in plant, and if it ends up in the plant, it can end up in those who drink it. (TODO: obtain research) We have seen cases in the past where pesticides were toxic to humans, as well. Similarly, the chemical composition of whatever we eat determines how something is going to taste. As a result, it is believed that some teas make people sick because of the pesticides that were used during the farming of the tea; the plant absorbs the pesticides, which is not worth removing or can not be removed from the leaves before brewing into a beverage. They may not only make the tea taste different, but has a greater likeliness to cause harm to our tavern patrons.
As a result, the default choice for the Tea Tavern should be teas that were grown without the use of pesticides.