Does tea go bad?

[brxndxn]

I was looking for some snacks when I found my little green box with a bunch of Chinese symbols on it that I got from the local oriental store... 40 tea bags for like 80 cents maybe 3 years ago..

so.. it's still good, right?

 

[Lola]

i don't think it goes bad, but i do know it looses it freshness

 

[Gibson486]

well, it's dry....but it is three years old.....but then again, anything you buy from a supermarket is that old anyways

 

[franksta]

I don't know if the bags themselves go bad but once you make it don't let it sit around for more than a day or so.

 

[DivideBYZero]

It won't be fresh. You can make tea with it and it won't kill you, but if you buy a new pack and compare you'll know.

If you want a cup of Tea now, do it, but buy a new pack for a GOOD cup.

**TFNN's Official Englishman**

 

[Rubycon]

It will lose its freshness after about a year.

Try it - not like it will hurt you like other spoiled foodstuffs! Some can detect loss of freshness and some cannot.

 

[Mickey Eye]

It'll taste a little stale but not terrible. Found a tea bag on my boat that had been there 4 years, still tasted pasable.

 

[Jzero]

If it's in foil envelopes, I've found that it stays fresh for years. Paper envelopes, it will be stale. All this really means is that it will have a really weak flavor...of course if you're drinking tea made from bags, the flavor isn't going to be that great anyway.