Hmm, the key ingredient in the black tea he'd been drinking heavily for years is oxylate. According to article, that is also found in 'spinach, rhubarb, nuts, wheat bran and chocolate.'
So although rare, is not only black tea where this substance is in our food we ingest.
If it's only in black teas, and not all teas, and is same whether in cold or hot drinks, it wasn't from drinking it hot that caused his kidneys to fail; rather it was he was compulsive about it.
amyjo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hmm, the key ingredient in the black tea he'd been > drinking heavily for years is oxylate. According > to article, that is also found in 'spinach, > rhubarb, nuts, wheat bran and chocolate.' > __________________________
Goodness, I must be more circumspect on my spinach consumption! Just finished my second plate of sauteed spinach in two days.
Didn't know could go overboard on spinach lol. But now I do.
I have noticed bottled and canned teas often sweetened with high fructise corn syrup, as well as at soda fountains tea on tap between soda. Some reseach indicates high fructose corn syrup is having side effects (besides it tastes good, and is apparently cheaper to grow + refine for the flavor than cane or beet sugar.)