Description
Ten CBD tea bags to a box at 30 mg of full spectrum extract each, 300 mg across the carton, in a yerba mate and spearmint blend. The leaf is loose cut rather than dust, the bag material is compostable, and the extract is carried on the leaf rather than sprayed into a paper sleeve. Thirty milligrams a bag is a high figure for an infused tea, where ten is more usual.
Per bag, per box: what cbd tea bags state and what steeps out
Three figures appear on the carton, because a box shouting 300 mg is a different claim from a bag holding 30. The fourth figure, how much actually leaves the leaf, is dealt with below.
- CBD tea bags: 30 mg of full spectrum extract per bag
- Count: 10 bags. Box total: 300 mg
- Blend: yerba mate with spearmint, loose cut leaf
- Caffeine: present, from the yerba mate
- Spectrum: full spectrum, trace delta-9 figure on the certificate
- Price: $19 a box, with the price per milligram printed under it
The honest problem with cbd tea bags
Cannabidiol is not water soluble. A tea bag sitting in hot water will transfer the terpene fraction and some of the lighter compounds readily, and the cannabinoid fraction poorly, so the 30 mg printed on a bag is what went in rather than a measurement of what ends up in the cup. Adding milk or any fat gives it something to dissolve into and changes that. Nobody selling CBD tea bags can give you an honest extraction figure for your own kettle and steep time, so we print what is on the leaf and say this much plainly. The drinks range states container total, serving total and serving count on every listing.
Yerba mate, and the compound doing the obvious work
Caffeine. Yerba mate carries it naturally, somewhere in the region of 30 to 80 mg a cup depending on steep, and that is the ingredient with a noticeable effect in a mug of this. It is stated on the carton rather than left for people to discover. Spearmint is there for flavour and because full spectrum extract tastes strongly of hemp. A plain summary of what has been studied in botanicals and teas is kept by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, which has nothing to sell.
Loose cut leaf, and the bag itself
Most supermarket tea is dust and fannings, the small grades left after sorting, which brew fast and taste flat. This is cut leaf, which brews slower and holds its flavour longer, and it is why the bags are larger than a standard sachet. The bag material is a plant based mesh rather than a paper and polypropylene laminate, so it composts. CBD tea bags with a sealed crimp rather than a staple also avoid the metal question entirely, and the certificate covers the leaf and the extract rather than the packaging.
Testing
Every production run of these CBD tea bags is assayed by an independent laboratory for cannabinoid content, pesticides, heavy metals, residual solvents and microbials. On a loose leaf product the figure worth reading is the per bag assay rather than a batch average, since infused leaf can vary within a run, and the sheet reports it that way. Under potency runs are withdrawn and the failing certificate stays published alongside the passing ones, for the reason set out in why we publish the batch that failed.
What the published work used, and it was not 30 mg in a cup
Clinical work on cannabidiol sits well above what a box of CBD tea bags holds and uses measured oral doses rather than infusions. The approved prescription oral solution was trialled at 10 to 20 mg per kilogram of body weight per day. Single dose human studies used 300 to 600 mg. None of that literature involves an uncertain extraction from leaf into water, which is the reason an infused tea is the hardest format in this catalogue to reason about in milligrams. Those sentences describe the published record and its doses rather than making a claim about this box.
Best before date is on the carton. Keep it dry and sealed. The certificate for the current run is linked here and filed by lot number.
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