2014年7月26日星期六

I love tea pots. And tea cups. And tea :)


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I love tea pots. And tea cups. And tea :) because There are so many benefits to drinking tea! 

Health effects of Green Tea

Green tea in China known as the “national drink”. Modern science and extensive research confirmed that the tea does contain biochemical substances closely related to human health, tea is not only refreshing and pure heart, Qingre, digestion phlegm to tired weight loss, pure heart Chufan detoxification hangover, thirst, Jiang Huo Ming head, Zhili, dehumidification, and other pharmacological effects, but also the modern diseases, such as radiation sickness, cardiovascular diseases, cancer and other diseases, the pharmacological effect. The main component of tea has pharmacological effects of polyphenols, caffeine, lipopolysaccharide, Theanine. The specific role:
 
Anti-aging
May help to slow aging, tea polyphenols have strong antioxidant activity and physiological activity, free radical scavenger. According to the relevant departments to prove that 1 mg of polyphenols to clear excess free radicals harmful to human body performance equivalent to 9 micrograms of superoxide dismutase (SOD), significantly higher than other similar substances. Tea polyphenols have blocked lipid peroxidation, scavenging activity of enzyme. According to Okuda, Japan Extension the Yong test results confirmed that the polyphenols of anti-aging effects than vitamin E Strong 18 times.
Inhibition of cardiovascular disease
Help to curb cardiovascular disease of tea polyphenols on human fat metabolism plays an important role. The body’s cholesterol, triglycerides, high levels of vascular wall fat deposition, vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and the formation of atheroma plaques and other cardiovascular diseases. Tea polyphenols, especially tea polyphenols catechins ECG and EGC and its oxidation product of theaflavin and other help to make this porphyritic proliferation was inhibited, the formation of fibrinogen reduce the hemagglutination viscosity enhancement, coagulation clear, thus inhibiting atherosclerosis.
Anti-cancer
Contribute to prevention and anti-cancer polyphenols can block the Asian ammonium nitrate and other carcinogenic substances synthesized in the body, and has direct anti-cancer and improve the effectiveness of the body immunity. According to statistics, tea polyphenols (Catechins), gastric cancer, colon cancer, cancer prevention and adjuvant therapy will benefit both.
Radiation
Contribute to the prevention and treatment of radiation injuries tea polyphenols and their oxidation products has the ability to absorb radioactive material strontium 90 and cobalt-60 poisoned. Of the medical department of clinical trials confirmed the mild radiation sickness caused by the cancer patients in the radiotherapy process, treatment with tea extract, the efficiency up to 90%; pancytopenia, the effective rate of the tea extract treatment 81.7%; better treatment effect on radiation-radiation-induced leukopenia.
Resistance to virus strains
Contribute to the suppression and resistance to virus strains polyphenols have strong convergence, significantly inhibit and kill pathogens, viruses have a demonstrable effect on the anti – inflammatory diarrhea. China has a lot of medical units tea preparations for treatment of acute and chronic dysentery, amoebic dysentery, influenza, and a cure rate of about 90%.
Beauty
Help skin care tea polyphenols are water-soluble substances, and use it to wash your face to remove oily face, astringent, disinfection, sterilization, anti-aging skin, reduce the damage of UV radiation in sunlight on the skin and other effects.
Refreshing refreshing
Help in refreshing refreshing tea caffeine can induce the human central nervous excitement.
Enhance the excitement of the cerebral cortex, play a refreshing benefit thinking, the pure in heart effects.
Diuretic recover from fatigue
Help diuretic to relieve fatigue, caffeine in tea can stimulate the kidneys to promote urine excreted quickly, the kidneys filter out rate, reduce the retention time of the harmful substances in the kidney. Caffeine can also exclude the excess lactic acid in the urine, and helps make the body as soon as possible to eliminate fatigue.
Lipid-lowering aid digestion
Contribute to lipid-lowering help digest the efficacy of the Tang Dynasty “Herbal Supplements” tea “for a long time the records of the food is thin. China’s border and minority said “no day without tea”. Tea to help digestion and reduce fat efficacy, with today’s fashion language that is conducive to “lose weight”. This is due to the caffeine in tea can enhance the secretion of gastric juice can help digestion, and enhance their ability to break down fat. The so-called “long food is thin” truth here. Picked green tea
Relieve fatigue
Green tea contains potent antioxidants and vitamin C, can not only remove free radicals, but also secrete the hormone to combat stress and tension. A small amount of caffeine contained in green tea can stimulate the central nervous system, boost morale. Precisely because of this, we recommend drinking green tea in the morning, so as not to affect sleep.
Oral health eyesight
Help higher amount of fluoride in oral health eyesight tea fluoride per 100 g dry tea 10 mg – 15 mg, 80% water-soluble ingredients. Per person per day to drink tea 10 grams, you can absorb water-soluble fluoride 1 mg – 1.5 mg, and tea is alkaline beverage, can inhibit the body of calcium reduction on the prevention of dental caries, oral health, the teeth are is beneficial. According to the data in the primary school students the test after drinking tea therapy mouthwash, dental caries can reduce the rate of 80%. According to the survey of the relevant medical units, in cataract patients accounted for 28.6 percent of tea drinking habits; tea drinking habits accounted for 71.4%. This is because vitamin C and other ingredients in the tea can reduce the turbidity of the eye lens that regular tea drinking to reduce diseases of the eye, the Eye have a positive role.
Effectively reduce the three high
In recent years, studies have shown that green tea can help improve digestion, such as acute diarrhea caused by bacteria that drinking green tea can reduce the condition. Green tea weight loss effect, regular contact with the paint, computers and other groups to drink green tea; like smoking and drinking can drink green tea. For the elderly is concerned, if you are a true aficionado, it is best to use cold-brewing tea, cool white open tea, so drop the “three high”. Green tea can not drink empty stomach, otherwise it will “tea drunk”; cold, bad stomach are advised not to drink green tea.
Note
Green tea has become the most popular health products. In particular, some advertising overwhelming rendering effects as well as a variety of green tea as the main component related to beauty health care products of another, and make some green tea as the best choice of skin care and healthy. In this regard, experts have warned that the majority of female consumers, not blindly follow fashion trends, green tea itself as a health care products, without any health damage, but if various businesses and other raw materials to products made of its use , in relation to pay attention to some of the details.
Green tea skin care products good effect, the limited validity
Although the effect of green tea skin care products, but also in the choice of such products should be some caveats. From green tea skin care cosmetic effect is mainly one of the substances known as polyphenols, this substance has antioxidant effects, vitamin B, E and so on with, can play a role as add moisture to the skin is tight. Should be noted that tea polyphenols as phenolic compounds or their derivatives, the general term, in the air is very likely to be volatile, and the loss of its antioxidant effects, so this kind of skin care products, especially the mask to the new tea products best.
Drinking green tea weight loss and disease prevention, but careful menstrual drink
Green tea contains caffeine and polyphenols coexist, can stop the caffeine effect in the stomach, avoid stimulate gastric acid secretion, the drawbacks of caffeine is not the body to play, but the promotion of central nervous system, heart and liver function. Moreover, the aromatic compounds in green tea can dissolve fat to prevent fat stagnation of the body, caffeine can promote the secretion of gastric juice to help digestion and Cellulite. Women during the menstrual period is best not to drink more. Research that, in addition to the body’s normal iron loss, women with each menstrual period but also an additional loss of 18 The 21 mg of iron. Drink green tea during menstruation, more tannic acid composition of green tea, will be of iron in food molecules combine to form a large number of precipitates impede the absorption of the intestinal mucosa of iron molecules, and, more concentrated green tea on iron hinder the greater absorption

Life! Drink it while it's hot!

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Life! Drink it while it's hot! Same can be said of your tea too :)

20 health benefits of different herbal tea

Different Herbal tea have different health benefits. You can find the herbal tea you like as below:
1.Loss weight: roses, chamomile, peppermint, allowing you to build beautifully
2. Exclude stool: rose, lemon grass
3. Break down body fat, beauty Tiaojing: oolong tea roses
4. Body sculpting, lowering blood pressure: lemon grass, Pu Tizi
5 Relax bowel, improve endocrine disorders: roses, jasmine, oolong tea
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6. Promote blood circulation, eliminate the water retention of muscle tissue, remove the grease: Rose
7, treatment of acne, dark spots: rose, jasmine, can make the skin becomes smooth
8. White: Rose, mint
9. Sleep, headache: chamomile, lavender, rose
10. Awfully, eliminating intraocular pressure: Rose, Chamomile
11. Hangover: lavender, violet, mint
12. Headache: chamomile, rosemary, lavender, rose
13. Stomachache: chamomile, peppermint, jasmine
14. Cough: violet, mint, Radix, Panda Hai
15. To increase the memory: rosemary, chamomile, mint
16. The liver and the elimination of fatigue: the rose, osmanthus, jasmine
17. Reduce the pressure: Rose, Pu Tizi, lavender, mint
18. Increase in renal function: jasmine, rose, mint, medlar
19. To improve the symptoms of constipation, detoxification,
20. Whitening: chamomile, violet, cassia seed

What Is Eight Treasure tea

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Eight Treasure tea ( Ba Bao Cha ) is a legendary component in Sichuan tea drinking culture. 
The number 8 is symbolic for the many ingredients that make up the tea, of which there are actual tea leaves, dried chinese herbs and fruit as well as small pieces of rock sugar. 

The resulting tea is a wonderful and balanced sweet blend that is especially fitting for drinking alongside hot and spicy Sichuan food! The tea is traditionally served in Gaiwans (lidded cups) and constantly refilled by skilled servers wielding meter long neck pots of boiling water while putting on a show of dangerous dancing and courage. 

This specific blend of Eight Treasure Tea has an extra touch of rosebud in the blend. Brewing Ba Bao Cha in Glass Cup

2014年7月21日星期一

Jasmine tea is a woman’s love


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Jasmine tea is a woman’s love, not only because the tea can reduce weight also has beauty beauty, tea is a pure natural beverage, so the use of Tea Whitening without side effects

Why a green tea brew may just be the best drink in the world.

Here are 25 reasons why a green tea brew may just be the best drink in the world.
1. Weight-Loss: Green tea helps with the body’s weight loss. It burns fat and boosts your metabolic rate naturally. It can help you burn up to 70 calories in just one day. That translates to over three kilograms in one year.

2. Cancer: Green tea assists in reducing the risks of cancer. Antioxidants available in green tea is over a hundred times more effective than that of vitamin C and 24 times greater than vitamin E. This helps your body in protecting cells from damage believed to be linked to cancer.
3. Heart disease: Green tea helps prevent heart disease and stroke by lowering the level of cholesterol. Even after the heart attack it prevents cell deaths and speeds up the recovery of heart cells.
4. Anti-Ageing:Green tea contains an antioxidant known as polyphenols. This fights against free radicals. What this means is that it helps you fight against ageing and promotes longevity.
5. Skin: The antioxidant in green tea protects the skin from the harmful effects of free radicals, which causes wrinkles and skin ageing. Green tea also helps fight against skin cancer.
6. Arthritis: Green tea can help prevent and reduce the risk of rheumatoid arthritis. It also benefits your health as it protects the cartilage by blocking the enzyme that destroys cartilage.
7. Bones: The key to this is high fluoride content found in green tea. It helps to keep bones strong. If you drink green tea every day, this will help you preserve your bone density.
8.Cholesterol: Green tea can help lower your cholesterol level. It also improves the ratio of good cholesterol by reducing bad cholesterol level.
9. Obesity: Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. If you are on a healthy diet, exercise regularly and drink green tea. You will never be tubby.
10. Diabetes: Green tea improves lipid and glucose metabolism, prevents sharp increases in blood sugar level and balances your metabolism rate.

11. Alzheimers: Green tea helps boost your memory. And although there’s no cure for Alzheimer’s it helps slow the process of reduced acetylcholine in the brain, which leads to Alzheimer’s.
12. Parkinson’s disease: Antioxidants in green tea helps prevent against cell damage in the brain which could cause Parkinson’s. People drinking green tea also are less likely to progress with Parkinson’s.
13. Liver disease: Green tea helps prevent transplant failure in people with liver failure. Research has showed that green tea destroys harmful free radicals present in fatty livers.
14. High blood pressure: Green tea assists in preventing high blood pressure. Drinking green tea helps keep our blood pressure down by repressing angiotensin, which contributes to high blood pressure.
15. Food poisoning: Catechin found in green tea can kill bacteria that cause food poisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.
16. Blood sugar: Blood sugar tends to increase with age, but polyphenols and polysaccharides in green tea help lower your blood sugar level to maintain a healthy balance.
17. HIV: Scientists in Japan have found that EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) in green tea can stop HIV from binding to healthy immune cells. What this means is that green tea can help stop the HIV virus from spreading.
18. Immunity: Polyphenols and flavonoids found in green tea help boost your immune system, making your health stronger in fighting against infections.
19. Cold and flu: Green tea prevents you from getting a cold or flu. Vitamin C in green tea helps you treat the flu and the common cold.
20. Asthma: Theophyline in green tea relaxes the muscles which support the bronchial tubes, reducing the severity of asthma.

21. Ear infection: Green tea helps with ear infection problem. For natural ear cleaning soak a cotton ball in green tea and clean the infected ear.
22. Herpes: Green tea increases the effectiveness of topical interferon treatment of herpes. First green tea compress is applied, and then let the skin dry before the interferon treatment.
23. Tooth decay: Green tea destroys bacteria and viruses that cause many dental diseases. It also slows the growth of bacteria which leads to bad breath.
24. Stress: L-the theanine, which is a kind of amino acids in green tea, can help relieve stress and anxiety.
25. Allergies: EGCG found in green tea relieves allergies. So if you have allergies, you should really consider drinking green tea.

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Do you remember 
The things we used to say? 
I feel so nervous 
When I think of yesterday 

How could I let things 
Get to me so bad? 
How did I let things get to me? 


Like dying in the sun 
Like dying in the sun 
Like dying in the sun 
Like dying... 
Like dying in the sun 
Like dying in the sun 
Like dying in the sun 
Like dying... 

Will you hold on to me 
I am feeling frail 
Will you hold on to me 
We will never fail 

I wanted to be so perfect you see 
I wanted to be so perfect

Like dying in the sun 
Like dying in the sun 
Like dying in the sun 
Like dying... 
Like dying in the sun 
Like dying in the sun 
Like dying in the sun 
Like dying... 


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Green tea can protect the brain?

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Yes, the British scientists confirmed that green tea has beneficial effects on the human brain. 

Not only is green tea, black tea is also able to inhibit certain enzymes in the brain, while the incidence of dementia and this enzyme is closely related. Compared with black tea, green tea protective effect of the brain to be more lasting some.

Wake up and smell tea

Wake up , take a small shower, and smell tea.

 It gives you energy the whole morning :)




Here is a cup of love

Tea, is a cup of love...



Tomorrow is another day,
 Here is a cup love. 
life is good, 
Good night, have sweet sweet dream !

2014年7月20日星期日

The green tea helps to lose weight?

if you do not add the heat of other substances, green tea is almost zero. German nutrition experts believe that green tea contains substances such as caffeine can promote sympathetic nerve activity of the brain. 

So that the body to avoid excessive accumulation of fat. However, green tea and not to fat dissolved away, you will find that drinking 3 to 4 cups of green tea a day, you do not see any significant slimming effect. If you drink too much green tea, maybe you will lean down, but tea the adverse consequences of excessive speed up the pulse, sweating and restless, I am afraid will be far more than the thin dry hi

Caffeine caused a loss of body fluids?



Mistake, caffeine is a diuretic tea, tea really make you drain the water and sodium, but do not make a fuss, because your body will automatically add the loss out of water and sodium within 24 hours. Nutrition experts believe. This is not so much a loss of body fluids. Better say that the flow of body fluids.

2014年7月18日星期五

All you need are books & tea.


Life is simple, all you need are books and tea. 


Only simple life, can help you know life better....


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Different Make way of Chinese Green Tea

Characteristics of green tea, retained more of the natural substances in the fresh leaves. Polyphenols, caffeine retained more than 85% of the fresh leaves, chlorophyll retained about 50% less vitamin loss, thus forming a green tea broth, green leaves, the taste of convergence and strong characteristics. 
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The latest scientific findings show that the ingredients of green tea to retain the natural substances, are on anti-aging, anti-cancer, anticancer, bactericidal, anti-inflammatory and other special effects, than other teas.

Chinese green tea, famous most, not only in Hong Gao flavor length, excellent quality and unique, with a high value of art appreciation. Green tea according to the drying and fixing method, generally divided into Roasted, Hongqing, drying green and steamed green tea.

Green tea is healthier than black tea?


Green tea is healthier than black tea?
Correctly, green tea and black tea is not much difference between raw materials and are tea leaves, the only difference is that the process of tea: tea made from green tea, just tea drying; black tea is the opposite. Tea need to cut small and fermentation, oxidation to give the dark color and the flavor of the tea. Black tea is fermented, polyphenols may be decomposed is seldom used. Has not been fermented green tea, you can keep more of polyphenols, green tea helps the body’s health, from this perspective.Tea better than coffee, refreshing?

Error, the caffeine content per cup of coffee more than tea 2-3 times. However, caffeine does not explain its refreshing effect on the best, in fact, the caffeine in tea force play slow, but the duration is longer. Because the longer the brew
tea, the more dissolved tannin, it can play a role with caffeine, the caffeine in the body and slowly release.

Identification the quality of spring tea

According to the spring and the quality characteristics in two ways to tell.
The first is the dry look. Be judged on three factors from the dry tea color, smell, shape. Where a color of green tea Green Run, tea color zeu Yun, tea, fat and heavy real, or more pekoe and black tea, green tea, the cable tight knot, Gunpowder particles round and tight, and flavorsome, the quality characteristics of spring tea.
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The second is the wet look. Open soup Review of tea, for further judgment. After brewing the tea, sinking fast, strong and lasting aroma, the taste of alcohol; green tea liquor color green was yellow, black tea liquor color Yan cash ring; the tea Securinega soft and thick, normal shoots more than in, for the spring tea.

The experts pointed out that due to caffeine, active alkaloids in the new tea and a variety of aromatic substances with higher levels of easy to make people excited, nervous system and the nervous breakdown, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have an adverse effect. In addition, the new tea oxidation of polyphenols and aldehydes content more strong stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal mucosa, gastrointestinal function, especially patients with chronic gastrointestinal inflammation, drink tea, could easily cause stomach pain, fullness, constipation, dry mouth symptoms. Therefore, the spring and the best place for some time, auto-oxidation of polyphenols in tea, gastrointestinal irritation lower after the drink.

The Storage of Green Tea

(1)Avoid wet: green tea is a porous hydrophilic material, so it has a strong moisture also moisture resistance. Storage of green tea, the relative humidity of 60% is more appropriate, more than 70% will be due to moisture absorption and mildew, and then acidified deterioration.

(2) Avoid high temperature: green tea best storage temperature is 0-5 ?. Temperature is too high tea in the amino acids, carbohydrates, vitamins and aromatic substances are broken down and destroyed, the quality, aroma, taste has been reduced.

(3)Avoid the sun: the sun will promote the oxidation of green tea pigments and esters, can chlorophyll is broken down into pheophytin. Green tea is stored in a glass container or a transparent plastic bag by the sunlight, its intrinsic material from a chemical reaction, so that the deterioration of the quality of green tea.

(4)Avoid oxygen: green tea chlorophyll, aldehydes, esters, vitamin C and so easy to combine with oxygen in the air, the oxidation of green tea tea make green tea liquor color red, darken, greatly reduced nutritional value.

(5) to avoid odor: containing polymer Palm enzyme and dilute terpene compounds in green tea. Such substances naturally live wave of extremely unstable, widely suction odor. Therefore, tea and smell articles mix storage, it will absorb the odor and can not be removed.
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Professional save
Divided into two types of professional and family according to the different objects and green tea have and save, green tea preservation and storage methods, professional save merchants over their tea saved, the family is a small amount of green tea preservation, including green tea professional save in three ways:

(1) lime block Preservation Act. Quicklime block mounted on the white muslin bag. Green tea is loaded white tissue paper bag, coat brown paper bags, and small mouth pottery jars dry cleaned, Xiadian White, green tea tea bags in a small mouth pottery jars, in the middle embedded in twelve lime bags. Sealed with several layers of quality of the grass the altar, and the final compaction of the bricks and mortar or the thick woodblock in order to reduce the amount of air exchange. Since then we should always check to save the situation, the timely replacement of lime deliquescence.

(2) carbon storage method. Basically the same method of operation and lime block Preservation Act. With the material but extinguished with burning charcoal, Sheng tea utensils can be replaced with an earthen jar or a small mouth tin bucket. Increase or decrease the visual size of the container of the capacity of the charcoal bags and green tea, tea bags.
(3) green tea frozen method. Tea drying water vapor, moisture content between 3-5%, not more than 6%. Green tea into the aluminum composite bag, heat sealing, breathing air pump out of the air bag at the same time into the nitrogen, sealed seal affixed, placed on the tea box, and then into the low-temperature cold storage preservation. This method is the best tea in the conditions of the current technological level Preservation Act. Save a large amount of a long time.
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Family save green tea
Green tea family preservation method, in general there are five:

(1) crock Chu Tea Act. This method is ancient times. Ming Feng Meng Zhen <fast Xue Tang Man recorded saying: "real tea urn, the bottom set Ruo, cementing upside down, over the summer is not yellow, its gas is not compromised." Tea water content can not exceed 6%. Available lime dehumidification. To do the same lime block Preservation Act.

(2) canning. Container selection loaded pastries or other food, listen to metal, boxes, cans, boxes, or iron or aluminum or paper or paper products, or square or round or flat or irregular. The important thing is that the tea should be dry, seal the bag. This method is simple, take the same convenience.

(3) plastic bag storage Tea Act. Selection of high-density, high pressure, thick, good strength, no smell of food packaging. The tea can be pre softer net wrap, and then placed in a food bag, seal Serve.

Thermos receptacle Tea Act. Available insulation is poor and abandoned thermos filled with dry green tea covered cork, sealed with wax.

(4)Refrigerator France. The high density of green tea is loaded, high pressure, thick, good strength, no smell of food packaging bags, and then placed in the freezer or freezer. This method to save time, the effect, but the bag must seal securely tight seal, otherwise it will resurgence or odor, but detrimental to the quality of green tea

Tips for you to brewing Green Tea

Green tea polyphenols may be radiation to healthy teeth, fluoride, and catechin antioxidant lose weight. The following is from the experience of the original author of the “100 tea linked tea to share:
The tips of the green tea brew bubble: wake up the tea with a little hot water, tea, coupled with cold water, so tea, drink, and will not burn the mouth.

Regardless of bubble teapot, cups or other tea brew green tea, and do not let the green tea for a long soak, but to brew bubble Gongfu, immediately after the brew bubbles pour the tea from the brew tea with specialized tea tea cup to enjoy. Otherwise, no matter how good the tea gave bubble bad taste.

2014年7月12日星期六

How to Brewing Black Tea?

Generally, 2.25 grams of tea per 180 ml of water, or about a teaspoon of black tea per 6 oz. cup, should be used. 



Unlike green teas, which turn bitter when brewed at higher temperatures, black tea should be steeped in freshly boiled water. The more delicate black teas, such as Darjeeling, should be steeped for 3 to 4 minutes. 

The same holds for broken leaf teas, which have more surface area and need less brewing time than whole leaves. Whole leaf black teas, and black teas that will be served with milk or lemon, should be steeped 4 to 5 minutes. 


Longer steeping times make the tea bitter (at this point, in the UK it is referred to as being “stewed”). When the tea has brewed long enough to suit the tastes of the drinker, it should be strained while serving.

Storing Pu-erh tea

Pu-erh is special in that the quality and value improves with age. The older it is, the better. This is especially true with Green (Raw) Pu-erh. After going through the slow post fermentation from years of aging, this tea develops a very desirable and special kind of taste and fragrance found only in aged Pu-erh.

If you are interested in storing and aging your Pu-erh, we recommend you choose the compressed type (tea cake, brick, tou cha etc). It is not difficult to store Pu-erh tea at all. Here are a few guidelines :
1. Keep away from sunlight and heat.
2. Clean and dry environment.
3. Keep away from places with strong odors.
4. Provides good ventilation. Unlike other types of tea, Pu-erh requires ventilation in order to age.

Lemon tea - good for weight loss, and it's easy to make, just add some water.

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Lemon tea is good for Summer !
It tastes good but with no calories,
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It has many benefits like weight loss
How about take this healthy tea instead of other soft drinks?

It's to make this tea,
just put a lemon slice into your cup, and add some water!


How To Grow Tea

I’m obsessed with the idea of growing my own caffeine!  I’m addicted, there are no two ways about it.  And I really love my coffee and tea.  But it’s not grown locally, to be sure.  I ordered seeds last year, but we moved right after I planted them.  And they never came up.  So this weekend, I bought a seedling to plant with my mother’s ornamentals.  As a camellia, it should fit right in!

I thought I’d share some of the research I did last year about growing tea….

Types of Tea


Green TeaBlack TeaOolong Tea and White Tea all come from the same plant.  Surprise!  They all come from the leaves of Camellia sinensis.  There are two different varieties of the plant:  Sinensis sinensis and sinensis assamica.  The former has smaller leaves and thrives in cool, high mountains (eg, central China and Japan); the latter is a much taller plant and thrives in the lower elevations of moist, tropical regions (eg, Northeast India, and the Szechuan and Yunnan provinces of China).  There are also hybrids of the two varieties.

Picking Tea

Where Does It Grow?


Camellia sinensis is indigenous to China, Tibet, and northern India.  The major tea growing regions today include India, China, Sri Lanka, Japan, Taiwan, Kenya, Turkey, Argentina, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe…. and more.

That said, you can grow it outdoors in Zone 8 or above.  Or if you’re colder than that, you can grow it in a greenhouse or a pot that you bring indoors in the winter.  They’re a camellia, so if you grow camellias, chances are you can grow tea!

Camelia Sinensis flower

What Does It Look Like?


The fragrant flowers are white with yellow stamens inside (above).  The leaves are shiny and dark green, with new growth being much lighter. The fruits are small and hard, looking similar to a hazelnut (below).  The seeds are about 1/4” in diameter.  The sinensis variety can reach a maximum height of 10 feet or so; the assamica variety (think Assam tea) are much larger:  up to 65 feet tall.  So, for a garden plant, you’re probably going to want to go for the sinensis.

Camelia Sinensis fruits

How Do You Grow It?


Propagation


You can propagate tea from cuttings or from seeds.  According to the flier I received with my seeds from Whatcom Seed Company: “Sow seeds 3/4” deep in standard soil mix with coarse sand added.  Keep damp.  Ideal night temperature of 55F, day 68F.  High humidity and filtered sun.  Fertilize often.  Ideal pH 5-6.”

Cultivation


Plants should be placed approximately 3 feet apart in a sunny to semi-shaded area.  Plant them so that a house, wall, tree, or something else will protect them from strong wind.  They should be pruned back every four years to rejuvenate the bush and keep it at a convenient height.

Harvest


Tea plants have a growth phase and a dormant phase.  The dormant phase is in the winter, so as soon as shoots (“flush”) emerge in the spring, the new growth is plucked for tea.  In hotter climates, there may be several flushes per year.  The two uppermost leaves and the new buds are picked during each flush.

Here’s the tricky part for the home gardener: propagating a tea plant from seed is like propagating asparagus, rhubarb, or a number of other perennials from seed.  It takes time.  If you grow a tea plant from seed, it can take three years before your plant is ready to harvest.  So until then, think of it as an investment, and experiment, or just a nice plant.  If that sounds like too long for you, you can buy a plant or propagate from a cutting.

Given the right conditions, a tea plant can grow and produce for 50-100 years.  Wild tea plants have been found to be as old as 1,700 years.