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Green Tea Study - Fact Or Fiction 29.09.2008.
Amazing Green Tea Effects on Your Body 26.09.2008.
Loose Tea & Five Good Reasons to Choose It 25.09.2008.
WuYi and Oolong Tea For Weight Loss 15.09.2008.
The Journey of Tea From China to Africa 09.09.2008.
The Edge of Wu-Yi Tea over Green Tea   22.08.2008.
Anti-aging Ingredients Worth Knowing About   21.08.2008.
Tea Plants History
About tea plants

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Parts from new tea articles

Loose Tea & Five Good Reasons to Choose It 25.09.2008.

Tea, a three-letter word that pretty much everybody has consumed at least once in their lifetime.
It's great to have in the morning, afternoon, or evening, and is a great companion when you're feeling under the weather.
So, how are you preparing it? Is it loose leaf style, or are you simply dunking a bag and getting what you think tea really offers? If you thought you enjoyed the latter, then this article is for you...

Amazing Green Tea Effects on Your Body

Green tea invites enough enthusiasm nowadays, but you obviously need to know enough about this kind of tea. Green tea in fact can be of several kinds. There are the obvious differences between the Chinese and Japanese variety. Also these varieties themselves could be classifiable into several other types of green tea each with its own unique effects.Green tea has several properties that render it extremely beneficial for the human body...

Anti-aging Ingredients Worth Knowing About  

Green tea: This anti aging ingredient contains a compound that is 100 times more powerful than Vitamin C and is 25 times more powerful than Vitamin E in destroying free radicals. These free radicals are nasty compounds that destroy elastin and collagen in the skin. Green tea holds a reserve of antioxidants in cells, thereby slowing the aging process of skin by protecting against the UV rays of the sun...

The Journey of Tea From China to Africa

About 2700 B.C. there was a emperor named Shen Nung in CHINA. He loved plants and flowers. He had the most complete and beautiful garden in the whole country.
Every afternoon, emperor Shen Nung would sit in his garden and enjoy his drink.
One day, while his water was boiling on the table, a wind was blowing through the garden. The leaves were flying everywhere...

Tea Plants History

Tea comes from China, although tea plant grows all over the world. Like with wine, climate and soil have great impact on tea plants.

Japanese tea ceremony is to drink tea in the afternoon. Chinese people also have ceremony for tea drinking in the afternoon. British people are real tea drinkers, because they drink minimally 6 cups of tea per day. Tea is national drink in India too, the country with the largest tea production in the whole world. The half of it stays in India.

About tea plants

Tea contains various polyphenols, essential oils, some vitamins (E and some from B group) and minerals (because of high percent of zinc it is recommended to pregnant woman's).

Tea also contains caffeine, which wakes up. The concentration of caffeine in tea ranges from 2.5 to 4.5 percent, as contrasted to an average concentration of about 1.5 percent in coffee. But caffeine in tea acts different than in coffee. The more you warm tea leafs it release more tannin, which neutralize caffeine and tea, starts effect relaxing..

The Edge of Wu-Yi Tea over Green Tea

Wu-Yi Tea is a revolutionary, new-age tea that had unique benefits compared to other tea varieties such as black and green tea. This can be attributed to its polyphenol and anti-oxidant content. All teas are known to have this natural plant ingredient called polyphenol. However, what makes Wu-Yi Tea special and more powerful is how it is fermented wherein its potent ingredients are preserved and remains more intact. Therefore, compared to other tea varieties, Wu-Yi tea has more slimming and anti-oxidant properties that is aside from its ability to promote health and wellness...

WuYi and Oolong Tea For Weight Loss

Tea is one of the most popular beverages around the world; it is said to be the second most-drunk beverage, second only to water. Given the taste and soothing effect of tea on one's body, this does not come as a surprise, but recently, the status of tea as a beverage has been more elevated. With the popularity of the Wu-Yi diet tea as a great way to lose the unwanted pounds, more and more people are reexamining their love for tea...

Tips on how to prepare tea drinks

•  Hard water is bad for tea drinks.
•  Tea is long life supplies, if you keep it in tin can, it is good for 24 months, but in paper bags it is good for 12 months.
•  Tea pot for making tea don't use for cooking food.
•  Don't throw away used tea leaves, put it into compost for flowers.

Sorts of tea

Variates of tea - tea plants

Tea, is name for a family of mostly woody flowering plants, and for one of its important genera. Tea family contains about 600 species placed in 28 genera, is distributed through tropical and subtropical areas, but most species occur in eastern Asia and South America.

We are dividing tea by color:
Black tea is the famous and more consumed in Europe (98%).
Green tea herb especially like by people from far east and countries of Magreb where mint is add in tea.
Semi fermented tea like people of south China and Taiwan. Especially the sort oolong (black dragon).

How to make herbal tea

1.Under the stream of water wash the first the tea pot (should be of baked clay, if you don't have use tea pot made of glass). In the other one (ceramic, porcelain) put for every cup one spoon of tea plus one spoon for "tea pot", or just use bags.

2.In first tea pot warm up the water, before come to a boil remove from cooking stove.

3.Overflow the tea in the other teapot and cover with a cover. Tea in bags soak for 4 minutes, and leafs for 5 minutes. Strain the tea.

How to make herbal tea-step 1
How to make herbal tea-step 2
How to make herbal tea-step 3
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