{"id":80,"date":"2009-06-18T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theteatable.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2014-08-28T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:32:24","slug":"a-note-about-sun-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/a-note-about-sun-tea\/ ","title":{"rendered":"A note about sun tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know sun tea is very popular, but from a food safety standpoint, we advise\u00a0against it. \u00a0Sun tea is made by steeping tea bags in a large container of water placed in the sun for\u00a0several hours to warm it. \u00a0The problem is that the water only gets warm enough to encourage the\u00a0growth of bacteria. \u00a0\u00a0Iced tea should be brewed at a minimum of 195 degrees F for 3-5 minutes, then\u00a0stored in the refrigerator for up to one week. \u00a0Following these guidelines will prevent bacteria growth\u00a0in your tea.<\/p>\n<p>There is some controversy over whether or not you should really worry about this.\u00a0 As a health professional, I feel obligated to be cautious and not recommend anything remotely unsafe.\u00a0 I suspect that the underlying rationale for this advice against sun tea is based upon the FDA&#8217;s recommended food safety guidelines for retail establishments, which states that there is a &#8220;danger zone&#8221; for food of 41 degrees F to 135 degrees F, the temperature range that allows bacteria growth.\u00a0 The longer a food spends in this danger zone, and the more often the food passes through this danger zone, the greater the risk of potential bacterial contamination.\u00a0 Having said that, the FDA does not list tea as a potentially dangerous food, and brewing tea is not specifically mentioned in the FDA Food Code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know sun tea is very popular, but from a food safety standpoint, we advise\u00a0against it. \u00a0Sun tea is made by steeping tea bags in a large container of water placed in the sun for\u00a0several hours to warm it. \u00a0The problem is that the water only gets warm enough to encourage the\u00a0growth of bacteria. \u00a0\u00a0Iced&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[30,55,29,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}