By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. Reviewed by Lauren Hardaker Aug 7 2025 New research reveals that drinking unsweetened tea daily could help you live longer, while adding sugar or sweeteners may reduce those benefits. Study:  The associations of unsweetened, sugar-sweetened, and artificially sweetened tea consumption with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in 195,361 UK Biobank participants: a large prospective cohort study . Image credit: New Africa/Shutterstock.com Unsweetened tea consumption