<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nYou should avoid iced tea that has been left out of the refrigerator for longer than 8 hours, according to a memo from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Bacterial Contamination of Iced Tea. Bacterial development causes the iced tea’s sugar to ferment over time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>What happens if you drink tea left out?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe main issue with keeping tea out overnight is the possibility of bacterial growth. In addition, the tea polyphenol will oxidize and the majority of the vitamin will be lost. So don’t drink the tea if you detect mold or if it turns murky.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>How long is tea good for left out?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nIf brewed tea is kept at room temperature for a prolonged period of time, its flavor complexity will gradually deteriorate. If the tea is kept for more than 12 hours, it will eventually go bad. There are many different types of tea, and some are fine for at least 24 hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Long Can Sweet Tea Sit Out? Sweet tea can only sit out for eight hours at room temperature before it starts to go bad. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable-in-feed":false,"article-schema-type":"","disable-critical-css":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23572"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90582,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23572\/revisions\/90582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}