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That's true, and people steep it for varying lengths of time. Can such a thing be measured?
I’d argue yes. What people care about more is minimum steep time and minimum leaves by weight per mL water. You can use the brew ratio for this to actually define your tea to a standard like black tea. Though you’d have to define brew ratio which I trust the British to do.
After you define those things though, you’d probably measure the amount of liquid and kind of ignore the weight of the tea and steep time, so long as they go over the minimum per serving. Unless you want to argue that adding more leaves/steep time means that you’re consuming more tea, which seems wrong.
Yup, if anyone can come up with an adequate measure for this, it'll be the British. They'll probably use some stupid units for it though, but fortunately online conversion tools are available.