Welcome to the Eat This Not That Podcast.

I'm John Hammond and this is Megan Murphy.

Hi everybody.

And we are kicking this week off, I'm very happy to say, with an email from one of our listeners.

Jim Slovogian emailed us and he wanted to know more about tea, which is perfect timing by the

way because and as he put it, he's like, hey, black tea, green, white, oolong, herbal, hot, iced, what, what's the deal? What do I need to know? And Jim, you couldn't have timed your email to us more perfectly. By the way, if you would like to email us with a show idea or a topic that you'd like to hear more about, it's podcast at eat this.com. And we love hearing from you as we loved hearing from Jim. And Jim, your idea is spot on because June 10th is actually National Ice Tea Day. So it's perfect timing for us. Perfect timing. And I love iced tea. Do you love Ice Tea? I love all tea, actually. So I'm excited about this

episode for sure. This is great. Yeah, I'm like John mentioned, not only do we love hearing from our

listeners, definitely keep those emails coming. Podcast at eat this.com. But it's good to know that people

like Jim are so smart and they're with it too. Wicked smart. Oh, there's the Boston coming out

from you, the New England.

Jim nailed this one, like we said. Not only is it National Ice Tea Day on June 10th, but tea is really having a moment right now in this country, and there are a ton of great health benefits to teas.

Everything from weight loss, to sleeping better, to mood calming.

But of course, it could be challenging just like anything else to kind of navigate all the

benefits and figure out exactly which teas are right for your personal goals.

So in honor of our buddy Jim, yay Jim, got to love it.

We got your back, bud.

And National Tea Day, we're going to break it down for you on this episode.

And as Jim mentioned, he talked about, he mentioned iced tea at the end there, which I loved hearing.

And so we're going to have a very special bonus.

At the end of this episode, if you stay tuned all the way with us through the end, we are going to tell you how to brew the perfect iced tea every time. And this was surprising to me. Like, I thought this was going to be like, okay, like, here you go. This is how you brew iced tea. Dope. Like, it's pretty simple. No, there's, there's some quirks in here that I'm like, there's an ingredient you would never guess. You would never guess. So make sure you stay tuned for that. Okay. So, so let's get brewing with with tea because you're right. Tea is is kind of having a health moment here

in the U.S. especially, obviously tea globally is pretty big. But here in the U.S., I think, you know,

whether it's people, you know, coffee is, it's, coffee is crazy in the sense that one week to the next, it's good for you,

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