Tea Time Debate: Is Salt the Secret Ingredient for a Perfect Cuppa?
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I thought it was a bit rich that an american chemist is telling us the way to make a perfect cuppa, after all their tea is like dishwater
Besides India and Morocco and a few other , we are one of the most prolific tea drinking countries
Anyway they are suggesting a pinch of salt in your tea to take away any bitterness
A squeeze of lemon to remove any 'scum'
And plenty of dunking and squeezing to reduce the sour taste in the tannins
I agree with some comments but not the salt , it seems strange
Years ago for me it was tea with milk and sugar
Now it is tea, no milk and no sugar , for me the healthiest concoction
How do you make yours , 'More tea vicar' ?
Not a great tea lover more of a coffee fan but I have one cup in the morning .My mum makes the best tea on the planet. Tea,Milk and a little more hot water added in at the end to keep it hot. No sugar. I hate luke warm weak milky tea .Gotta be good and hot for me. I like making my own herb concoctions but they are more infusions than tea in the formal sense. I love Yorkshire Tea and Clipper. Bubble Tea?what's that all about? Do they blow in the cup with a straw or what?
MelissaLee1 I buy clipper white tea sometimes M, nice large teabags and organic , no plastic in the bags
I hardly drink Coffee anymore. I am more of Tea drinker. I either drink Glengettie (Welsh Tea) when I can get It or Tetley. I pop the bag Into water and let It stew for five minutes then add a drop of milk. I like my Tea strong. No sugar. Salt Is not the way and I wouldnt even touch It. The Americans cannot make Tea so how would they know. They have flavoured Tea mostly and that doesn't Involve milk so NO.
Like you I have black tea these days and I have never had sugar in it, although, because it doesn't have any milk I have to cool it down a bit with a dash of cold water.
I think we have to accept that UK and the USA have many different tastes in food and drink! I can't imagine anyone in the UK adding salt to tea 
No American is gonna tell me how to make a brew they don't even use a kettle lol
Leannexxx I've never forgiven them for what they did to our tea once LOL
I'd try a bit of salt in tea to see what it tastes like. Salt can work well in some situations. Most processed food has high levels of salt and then they add sugar to reduce the taste of salt like baked beans or vice versa I suppose you could say by making sugary food taste less sweet. I've forgotten is salt good or bad. It's confusing sometimes with different scientists and doctors saying more or less salt. I know if you eat too much processed food your salt levels could well be dangerous.
BonzoBanana 
Is salt good or bad... eating processed food regularly will likely dangerously increase your salt intake. We need salt (in moderation) and can get this from eating healthily - this way we access natural salt (all vitamins/minerals are intact). Most processed food contains processed salt (vitamins/minerals are stripped away, often with chemicals). For ease, we could say that processed salt isn't a good option (like table salt) and natural salt will likely be the better option (like Himalayan salt). I'm no scientist/doctor but am studying Biomedicine 
I only drink herbal tea 
With the amount of regular tea some people drink, adding salt to every cup will no doubt drive up their blood pressure 
Sri Lanka produces some of the best tea in world and while holidaying there I was served tea with a small jug of piping hot milk. When I asked for some cold milk the waitress replied ‘of course mam you’re English.’
I don’t drink tea but make it for everyone in my job. Since the English have drunk it for years I’m sure we know how to make it. I don’t understand the salt idea. Why? I am a coffee drinker and I still can’t understand people enjoying cold coffee. It’s sacrilege!
I have to use a water filter jug where i live as the water is hard - the difference is noticeable in the taste and the limescale in the kettle and any tea stains left in the mug. I do drink decaffeinated though as I would be jittering by tea time lol. I cant see that i could ever spoil my sacred cups of tea with a pinch of salt though
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