Iced tea

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Iced tea" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Iced tea (or ice tea)^[1] is a form of cold tea. Though it is usually served in a glass with ice, it can refer to any tea that has been chilled or cooled. It may be sweetened with sugar or syrup, or remain unsweetened. Iced tea is also a popular packaged drink, normally mixed with fruit-flavored syrup such as lemon, raspberry, lime, passion fruit, peach, orange, strawberry, and cherry.^[2]

While most iced teas get their flavor from tea leaves (Camellia sinensis), herbal teas are sometimes served cold and referred under the same categorical name. Sun tea is made by a particularly long steeping of tea leaves at a lower temperature (one hour in the sun, versus five minutes at 80 to 100 °C (176 to 212 °F).