Iced tea

For the actor & rapper, see Ice-T. For other uses, see Iced tea (disambiguation).
Iced tea with slice of lemon

Iced tea (or ice tea)[1] is a form of cold tea. Though it is usually served in a glass with ice, it can refer to any tea that has been chilled or cooled. It may be sweetened with sugar or syrup, or remain unsweetened. Iced tea is also a popular packaged drink, sometimes mixed with fruit-flavored syrup such as lemon, raspberry, lime, passion fruit, peach, orange, strawberry, and cherry.[2]

While most iced teas get their flavor from tea leaves (Camellia sinensis), herbal teas are sometimes served cold and referred under the same categorical name. Sun tea is made by a particularly long steeping of tea leaves at a lower temperature (one hour in the sun, versus five minutes at 80 to 100 °C (176 to 212 °F).

  1. ^ "New words list December 2012". Oxford English Dictionary. Archived from the original on April 26, 2013. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  2. ^ Natural beverages. Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu, Alina Maria Holban (First ed.). Duxford, United Kingdom. 2019. ISBN 978-0-12-816690-1. OCLC 1105557044.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)