WE DRINK 22 MILLION CUPS OF TEA EVERY DAY

But do you really know what you’re putting in your cuppa?

Caroline Overington and Clair Weaver report.

IF, LIKE MOST Australians, you drink tea, chances are you buy one of the big brands such as Lipton, Dilmah or Tetley from the supermarket shelf. You probably choose it for a mixture of reasons, including personal taste and price. And you’ll no doubt have your own preferences when it comes to adding milk, lemon and sugar, and the biscuits you serve with it. If you pull apart your teabag, however, and trace those tea leaves on a journey back to the bush they came from, you might look at your cuppa a little differently. Our tea market, now worth almost $500 million, is part of a lucrative and sometime ruthless trade. At the top are the big multi-national corporations, which dominate the industry and squeeze the greatest profit out…

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The Australian Women's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2015

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