“Tea should not contain salt. You will suffer from high blood pressure and your life span will be reduced. Don’t even add sugar to tea. It is not good,” Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sama told the tea gardens of Assam’s Sonitpur district on Wednesday. Visited.
As health minister, Sarma had earlier said in the assembly that the consumption of salt along with tea, which was introduced in the British era to combat dehydration, continues even today. “This has led to a number of medical complications such as high blood pressure, heart disease and eclampsia, leading to high mortality in the community,” he had said.
He said, ‘I will not be able to say why this tradition was started in the tea garden of Assam. However, nowadays we do not add salt or sugar to Chah Pani (black tea). If they want, they take salt with them,” said Sarabjit Marwah, manager of Khumtai Tea Estate in Upper Assam.
CHAH PANI
With over 800 large tea gardens, Assam produces 56% of the country’s total tea and garden workers belonging to the tribal community account for about 17% of the state’s population.
Chah Pani in the tea gardens of Assam means brewed tea or black tea, while plain water means ‘raw water’. This tea is available round the clock at the homes of tea garden workers.
To this day, a bullock cart equipped with a chah water drum moves around the garden. The workers consume it in the form of water or soaked chutney rice (chirva) and have it as a snack during breaks.
Chah water, which many in the industry demand to be declared as the national drink, is mostly consumed with salt, similar to ‘Nimokh Chah’ (salt tea).
The latest studies show a link between a high-salt diet and brain health, and it is also known to cause high blood pressure.
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