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Oolong varieties / Quality & Variety Guide / Tea varieties

2014.11.26

Song Cultivar Huangzhi Xiang Dancong

What is a Dancong? Dancong — literally “single bush” — is traditionally the way to process...

Infusion / Tea How's

2014.11.20

Tea in the Thermos

The thermos flask (vacuum flask) was my first teapot. It was not those nice looking...

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters

2014.11.17

How Fair is Fair Trade?

Shantile, 23, who’s been picking tea leaves in a Fair Trade tea estate in Sri Lanka for...

Health Benefits of Tea / Tea and Health

2014.11.14

Defending Against Cancer

As to how tea protects the body against cancer, several mechanisms have been observed and hypothesized. We have tried to digest them and represent a few prominent concepts here in plain English…

Tea and Health / Tea Usage

2014.11.12

Adding Milk to Tea: Good or Bad for Health?

Is adding milk to tea really hampering tea’s health benefits? In 1998 a few scientists in the Netherlands gathered 12 individuals as test subjects to test their catechins level in the blood after drinking tea with and without milk…