Black Tea Source, Production, and Consumption: Assessment of Health Risks of Fluoride Intake in New Zealand

Table 3

Summary of fluoride intake per mug for 18 black tea bag commodities.


Mugs per day	Volume (mls/day)	Tea infusions made with nonfluoridated water (0.00 mg/L) Total F intake		Tea infusions made with fluoridated water (0.70 mg/L) Total F intake		Tea infusions made with fluoridated water (1.0 mg/L) Total F intake
Mugs per day	Volume (mls/day)	Max mg/day	Min mg/day	Max mg/day	Min mg/day	Max mg/day	Min mg/day

1	350	1.1	0.1	1.4	0.3	1.5	0.4
2	700	2.2	0.3	2.7	0.6	2.9	0.8
3	1050	3.0	0.4	4.1	0.9	4.4	1.3
4	1400	4.5	0.6	5.5	1.3	5.9	1.7
6	2100	6.7	0.8	8.2	1.9	8.8	2.5
8	2800	9.0	1.1	10.9	2.5	11.8	3.4
10	3500	11.2	1.4	13.7	3.2	14.7	4.2

In the 28 member countries of the EU, the UL for a healthy adult male or female is 7.0 mg/day [123]. In the USA, the UL is 10.0 mg per day [122].