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Um. From APM Studios. I'm Gold Tea Lox.

Ah! What a cozy, rainy day. Just perfect for a cup of tea.

Ouch! That tea just totally burned my taste buds. Way too hot. Maybe I'll just read a few pages of a book while I wait for it to cool.

Let's see. Green tea and ham? Hmm. Good night, macha. No. I know. I'll read Charlie and the Chai Factory.

Five hours later.

Wow, what an amazing book. Oh no, my tea. I forgot.

Ugh, oh, way too cold. But wait, that's the most flavorful sip I've ever sipped in my whole life of sipping.

How can that be?

I think my friend Lilika has the same question.

Hi, I'm Lilica from Santa Barbara, California, and my question is,

why does tea taste stronger the longer you let it sit?

So the reason that tea tastes stronger, the longer you let it sit,

is because it gives more time for the flavor-containing substances in the tea to spread out into the water.

My name is Dr. Stu Farhramund. I'm from the UK and I am a science writer. I'm a former medical doctor and I write lots of books about the science of the world around us.

Within the tea bag, there are lots of tea leaves and when they're in the hot water, all these flavorful substances come out that we call flavor

compounds. They're what gives tea its flavor. The longer you let it sit, the more of these come

out of the leaves and the stronger the tea gets. The other thing is that as tea cools,

your taste bud become more alive. Your taste buds work best when what you're eating is at body temperature.

So when you let the tea cool a little bit so it's not super hot, you can actually taste all the

flavours better. I've been asked before to look at tea and what makes it taste good, how we can make

our tea taste better. My research shows that the cup matters and that if you have

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