Yixing teapot: Real use for really small ones?
The capacity of most popular Yixing pot sizes ranges from a few hundred millilitres (or...
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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...
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…
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...
New Developments in Using Tea Catechins to Fight Cancer
Tea has in recent years become a focus in health sciences and tea catechins, EGCG...
Quality Basics 1: Various Plants, Various Qualities
Four of the thousands of different tea tree cultivars employed for tea production in different...
Green Tea Production: Sun-drying
This is the same thing that most civilizations have done with their food since before...
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…
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...