Southern Sweet Tea
Black tea sweetened while still hot, then poured over a full glass of ice.
Strong black tea with sugar dissolved while the tea is still hot — that order matters, because sugar will not properly dissolve into cold tea and a gritty glass is the usual result of getting it wrong.
Sensory profile
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How it unfolds
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That is 45 mg in a 12 oz (355 ml) over ice serving — a concentration of 12.7 mg per 100 ml. The scale above ranks whole servings, and servings differ in size, so a larger drink can sit further right while being weaker cup for cup.
CupCura editorial estimate. No public food database has measured this preparation, so this figure is our own and is not independently sourced.
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