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Health Benefits of Tea / Special Features

2016.03.23

Tea vs Alzheimer’s Disease

The most expensive disease of our time and incurable, Alzheimer’s destroys the brain slowly before killing a person. Tea maybe a useful daily habit against it.

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters

2015.04.01

On Names

An expensive “restaurant tea” A few years ago I saw a nice tin can by...

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…

Japanese chef passing tea qualification test in Hong Kong

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters

2014.09.30

Quality Basics 4: The Interpretation

Unlike wine, which can be consumed quite directly pouring from a bottle, tea has to be...

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters

2014.09.30

Quality Basics 3: The Myths of Grades

quality grades There is a Western grading system given to conventional black tea productions basing...

Workman checking evenness of twist-forming of the steamed tealea

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters

2014.09.30

Quality Basics 2: The Production Process

The making that makes the difference:
Very often one would hear that the different kinds of tea is a result of different degrees of fermentation. This is only partially true…

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...

Tea and Health / Tea Usage

2014.07.20

Teabags ≠ Whole Leaf Teas!

I have read many, many tea blogs, books and propaganda trying to persuade the reader...