Sip-By-Sipping in the 90s

Trends Show Coffee’s Not Our Cup of Tea Anymore

Can’t sleep? Upset stomach? Need to warm up or cool down? Then do what half of America and 90 percent of the world does each day—have a cup of tea. Who can resist the whimsical packaging and names like Metabolic Frolic, Nighty-Night, Red Zinger, and Grandma’s Tummy Mint? Yet tea, innocuous as it seems, is steeped in controversy, government regulations, lawsuits and battles for the bucks.