Sipping Streams Tea Company

    Bottled tea, though now more commonly referred to simply as “ice tea”, is the bottle of chilled tea that you can get at most stores. They are already made, waiting for someone to drink them. Though the names, brands, and flavors of bottled tea may all be called by different names according to the ingredients on the sides of bottles of tea, there is not enough actual tea your in your beverage for there to be a notable difference in health benefits, and most taste very similar to one another, even though they claim to be completely different flavors. However, there are some that actually contain health benefits and they will actually note how much ECGC there is on the bottle.
    Most bottled teas have loads of sugars in them, and most of those that aren’t loaded with sugar taste awful. Hot tea is quite different, though you can’t pour sugar into a bottle of ice tea, you can pour sugar or even anything else into a cup of hot tea. The different hot tea flavors also taste quite different if you look for different flavors. Hot tea’s most definite con, is that you have to prepare it. Most tea bags are black tea, which requires around boiling temperature to make your tea with. Now depending on the stove or whatever you are using to heat the water, this could take 3 minutes, 10 minutes, or longer.
     Another benefit of hot tea is that it tends to cost less for a box of 24 bags of tea (which is obviously 24 cups of tea) then it does for 3 bottles of ice tea (which doesn’t even taste that good). Overall, hot tea is of course of better taste and quality then ice tea, simply because hot tea is tea, iced tea is a derivative of hot tea, and the original usually does beat the other versions.

~James G.
Frontier High School