Apparently adding milk to black tea helps prevent esophageal cancer by binding the tannin in the tea.
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The Chinese, although they are heavy tea drinkers, drink tea that is low in tannin and have little throat cancer. The British, also profuse drinkers of tea that contains tannin, add milk to their drink which binds tannin, rendering it harmless.
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Article
here.
I've recently hopped on the rooibos bandwagon, all the antioxidants with very low tannin levels.