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How Much Tea do the British Really Drink?
Although the consumption of coffee has been steadily growing over the past few decades, tea is still the British drink par excellence. The UK Tea and Infusion Association estimates that overall, Britons drink more than 165 million cups of tea every year. Approximately 66 per cent of UK citizens are tea drinkers, but despite that, we are not the world’s number one tea drinking nation, as that honour goes to Turkey.
Perhaps because of the unpredictable and generally wet and cool British weather, tea has become our go-to drink rain or shine. In fact, approximately 40 per cent of all daily fluid intake comes from tea -and who could blame us?
As for our tea drinking preferences, nowadays tea bags have replaced lose leaf tea, and 96 per cent of all cuppas brewed in the UK every day are made using this convenient method. Milk is pretty much added to our tea by default, as it is believed that 98 per cent of Britons drink their tea with milk, whereas only 30 per cent add sugar to their cuppas.
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Time for a Cuppa… Having a Tea Break in the Office (Infographic)
The British love tea but only four in ten office workers make a hot drink for more than one colleague every day in the UK. Are some of us ‘social tea drinkers’, prepared to sip tea just to get all the office gossip? As the International Tea Day – 15 December – is getting nearer, we at London Office Space decided to make ourselves a cup of tea (that’s how long it will take you to read through this tea infographic!) and get all the tea facts right. Fancy a cuppa?
It’s time for a cuppa… – An infographic by the team at London Office Space