Does tea make you feel like you have hair on your tongue?

[Lilacleia16]

It feels like there’s hair on my tongue when I drink tea…is it just raised tastebuds? Or am I just overstimulated by an ingredient in the tea? Or both? Does anyone else experience tea this way? Is it dying my tongue with the tannins and is that why it feels that way? I want to understand.

 

[tree]

What kind of tea?

 

[marc_101]

Yes, but only if it's left sipping for too long, especially black tea. No clue about the chemical mechanism.

It seems that "astringent" is the word:

What Happens If You Steep Tea Too Long? - Tea Crossing

Or maybe you have a super sensitive tongue.

 

[Lilacleia16]

What kind of tea?

Peach tea actually.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Once in awhile I get that with tea. Sometimes I get it with WATER!

 

[Greening]

No, weirdly it does not, even though I have very hard, black hair all over my tongue.

(Joking)

 

[Lilacleia16]

Once in awhile I get that with tea. Sometimes I get it with WATER!

Water just tastes slimy and makes my throat feel like dry skin is flaking off in the back of my mouth.

 

[Dagan]

Might be the acidity. My son is allergic to peaches but only the outer skin / fuzz of them. A peeled and sliced peach without the skin is perfectly fine for him. Point being that we can be allergic to the most specific things at times, and even then, we have allergic reactions in just the tiniest of ways at times. Could be worth testing a drop or two of the tea on arm skin to see what happens.

 

[Bolletje]

No, but spinach makes my teeth feel sticky.

 

[Greening]

Sometimes when I drink coffee all my hair falls off and turns into a little dove named Charlie. I then feed him with mushrooms for three weeks before we go see a movie about hermit-like crabs. And when we come home the hair dove dissolves into my hair again, back on my head, and I can feel it finding its roots again. Then I sing a song about how I was made to tango and another one about the shyness of certain doctors in Oklahoma.

Yes.