Tea is one of the world’s second most popular beverage (after water), but most Americans consider it a poor second to coffee as a caffeine-laced pick-me-up or after-meal beverage. Recently, however, tea has gained new popularity, in part because of its medicinal value. A cup of tea contains only about half as much caffeine as […]
In the beverage wars, traditional tea such as green tea has taken the spotlight in many areas for being a drink full of antioxidants and health benefit offerings. While this remains very true, let’s have a look at some other brews that sometimes go unnoticed and see what they too can do for us.
Herbal tea, […]
Whilst increasing attention is now rightly being paid to the health benefits of white and green teas, the virtues of the much more familiar, and still much more common, black tea, should not be neglected. All three are products of the camellia sinensis plant and as such have many common attributes, particularly in their anti-oxidant […]
Many people are familiar about the tremendous benefits of drinking green tea. It provides many health benefits as follows positive aspects for the body. However, many people may not realize that they can get all these benefits of green tea in a green tea concentrate. This concentrate contains many times the nutrients and other components […]
White tea was created in Fujian province China, and is mostly harvested in Fu Ding and Zheng He County. It is the tea that is the less processed making and the most natural one.
But, what is white tea? Most tea aficionados know that all tea comes from the same source: the Camilla Sinensis tea bush. […]
Most orthodox teas are produced in China, Sri Lanka, Darjeeling and Assam. They represent about 31% of world tea production. An additional 25% is green and oolong tea. This means that about 55% or over one half of all tea produced is processed by the orthodox form of processing.
Therefore about 45% of teas are processed […]
For thousands of years, tea has been known for its incredible medicinal and therapeutic benefits. Today we know much more about the health benefits of tea leaves, thanks to hundreds of government, university and independent clinical studies.
There are seven commonly available varieties of tea: green, white, black, oolong, pu’erh, roobios and herbal. Each type is […]
Wu Long tea, which is also called “black dragon tea”, is within a group of teas that have a virtual mythical quality surrounding them. From the birth of their very existence which projects back to an ancient time in which tea was considered by most to be both king and queen of the land and […]
