Tea bags flood your beverage with billions of microplastics Recent research shows commercially available nylon, polypropylene, and cellulose tea bags deposit up to 1.20 billion micro- and nano-plastics into every milliliter of tea These plastic particles are absorbed by distinct gut cell types—polypropylene and cellulose by mucus-producing cells, and nylon by gut-barrier cells—potentially disrupting gut function and microbiome health Opting for loose-leaf tea is the safest way to cut your microp