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Featured / Tea How's / Tea Wares

2016.02.16

Yixing teapot: Real use for really small ones?

The capacity of most popular Yixing pot sizes ranges from a few hundred millilitres (or...

Tea and Health / Tea Usage

2015.05.11

Nausea After Green Tea, But I Want It for Health…

While there are people switching to tea having discovered a whole new world of gastronomic...

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…

Tea and Health / Tea Usage

2014.10.27

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...

Substances in Tea / Tea and Health

2014.09.12

New Developments in Using Tea Catechins to Fight Cancer

Tea has in recent years become a focus in health sciences and tea catechins, EGCG...

Two leaves each from a different tea cultivar

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters / Special Features

2014.08.14

Quality Basics 1: Various Plants, Various Qualities

Four of the thousands of different tea tree cultivars employed for tea production in different...

Green tea category / Nature of tea

2014.07.30

Green Tea Production: Sun-drying

This is the same thing that most civilizations have done with their food since before...

Green tea category / Nature of tea

2014.07.29

A (Very) Brief History of Green Tea

The use of tealeaves as a medicine has been in existence for three millenniums in China, but it is unclear when it has become a drink until Wang. Further records of it being a hospitality beverage and a grocery item were…

Green tea varieties / Special Features / Tea varieties

2014.07.26

Uji Gyokuro, Classic Representation of Japanese Green Tea

uji gyokuro うじぎょくろ宇治玉露, steamed green tea origin: Kyoto, Japan Gyokuro, aka Jade Dew, is...