A sacrilegious suggestion, we know.
People are very precious about their humble cuppa tea.
We're a nation of tea drinkers after all, and we all have a specific way of making the perfect brew.
Whether you're a tea bag dipper, a stirrer - if take a sugar or none, that's all fine. The majority of tea drinkers can agree to disagree on many different aspects of the ritual.
But almost everyone agrees that the milk comes AFTER the water - and now we're being told that's actually wrong!
Professor Alan Mackie, Head of School of Food & Nutrition at Leeds University has really taken his life into his own hands here.
Tyla reports Prof. Mackie reckons putting the milk into the cup first can "generate a much better flavoured and healthy cup of tea".
But there is a slight caveat, it depends where you live.
If you're living in an area with soft water, you don't need to uproot your routine - water, milk, sugar is perfectly fine and correct.
In areas with hard water though, the extra minerals in the water will actually prevent all those love tea-y flavours from properly getting out.
So if you add milk at the start of the process, it binds to all those tasty bits together resulting in a much more tasty cuppa.
Get a taste test sorted and report back to us!
