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U. Um. 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.

Oh, no, my tea, I forgot. U, 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 Lillica has the same question.

Hi, I'm Lillicha 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 The tea

to spread it's because it gives more time for the flavor-containing substances in the tea

to spread out into the water.

My name is Dr. Stue Farrimond. 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 teab, 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. come out of the leaves and the

the leaves and the stronger the tea come out of the leaves and the stronger the tea gets.

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