Feb 07
The tea in a tea bag is made from broken bits of the actual tea leave and when the leaf if broken into such tiny bits it can loose a lot of the flavor. That is in part because a lot of the oils and chemicals in the leaves can evaporate after they are handled roughly while being made into the small leaves that are required by the average tea bag. This loss can cause a diminishing of flavor. The small tea bits, known as fannings, are crushed bits of the leaf whereas loose leaf tea is almost always the entire leaf or at least a large proportion of it.