Song Cultivar Huangzhi Xiang Dancong
What is a Dancong? Dancong — literally “single bush” — is traditionally the way to process...
Leo Kwan
Tea in the Thermos
The thermos flask (vacuum flask) was my first teapot. It was not those nice looking...
How Fair is Fair Trade?
Shantile, 23, who’s been picking tea leaves in a Fair Trade tea estate in Sri Lanka for...
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…
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…
Jasmine Milk Tea
People have a terribly wrong perception that milk is only for black tea. One of...
Yixing Teapots, An Introduction
The Yixing teapot to tea making is equivalent to, if not more critical than, the...
How many cups of tea can I drink each day?
Dr John Weisburger drinks 8 cups of tea a day. He specifies them to be...
Caffeine Content in 39 Tea Samples
Caffeine is a colourless material that occurs naturally in the tea plant. The wide-spreading myths...
Caffeine: How Much is Safe?
What food standards agency have to say Food Standards Agency of UK recommended in 2001 that...