{"id":3530,"date":"2025-10-20T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/200-year-old-sri-lankan-tea-leaves-could-stop-extinction-of-cuppa\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:03:25","slug":"200-year-old-sri-lankan-tea-leaves-could-stop-extinction-of-cuppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/200-year-old-sri-lankan-tea-leaves-could-stop-extinction-of-cuppa\/","title":{"rendered":"200-year-old Sri Lankan tea leaves could stop extinction of cuppa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-20 13:03:24<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Tea leaves picked from Sri Lanka 200 years ago could prevent the drink from becoming extinct.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers are looking at ways to best protect the plants from climate change.<BR><br \/>\nThamali Kariyawasam, of the University of Bristol, is going to investigate how tea cultivars manage when there is a limited water supply.<BR><br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;We are seeing tea fields being scorched by heatwaves, and in extreme conditions, the crop will die.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nIt comes as it was recently revealed that Brits guzzle enough gallons of tea in the morning to fill four Olympic-sized swimming pools.<BR><br \/>\nA survey of 2,000 people carried out by tea bag firm PG Tips found that 53 million cups of the British staple are drunk before 9am every day.<BR><br \/>\nIt also revealed that 12 per cent of adults make themselves a cuppa as soon as they wake up, with 10 per cent kicking off the day with at least three cups of the warm beverage.<BR><br \/>\nEleanor Barker, from PG Tips, said: &#8220;Tea is the hero of British mornings, and this research highlights why we at PG Tips are encouraging the nation to start their day in the best possible way &#8211; with a delicious, refreshing cuppa.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Whether it&#8217;s a moment to pause before the day begins or a quick cuppa to boost your productivity, tea is at the heart of a great start to the day.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-20 13:03:24 Tea leaves picked from Sri Lanka 200 years ago could prevent the drink from becoming extinct. Researchers are looking at ways to best protect the plants from climate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}