Green Tea

Japanese Teas Revisited

By A.C. Cargill
Recently, I revisited some teas from Japan that I had tried previously and had reacted to with less than a positive and enthusiastic manner. The results were a revelation.
Part of learning and growing is re-trying something you tried years (or maybe even only months, weeks, or days) ago all over again to see [...]

Stash Organic MerryMint Green Tea

By Lainie Petersen

Deck the halls with boughs of wintergreen! Yes, this tea has both spearmint and peppermint added, but they barely make any impact on this blend. If you like the cold, bracing tingle of wintergreen, Organic MerryMint Green Tea from Stash is the way to go.

Green Tea for the Holidays

By A.C. Cargill

Green is one of the dominant colors for the holidays (red being the other), so why not for your tea, too? Several choices spring to mind, teas that I have tried and grown quite fond of during the past year.

More Matcha Please

By William I. Lengeman
Is matcha the new espresso? The growth of interest in recent years in this powdered Japanese green tea has been rapid enough that it prompted one writer to pose that question. The writer ultimately concluded that while matcha and espresso do share some similarities, matcha will likely come to occupy a healthy [...]

Making Sense of Sencha

By A.C. Cargill
Making sense of Sencha (a style of Japanese green tea) can be a bit tricky for many of us tea drinkers used to Indian, Ceylonian, African, and Chinese teas. Where tea is concerned, Japanese teas seem a world unto themselves.
Processing Sencha is the “secret of its success” for the most part. The first [...]

Tea Review - Golden Moon’s Temple of Heaven Gunpowder

By Lainie Petersen

Review: Poor gunpowder green tea often gets no respect. Sadly, this is because those that distribute the stuff often fail to source good gunpowder tea, and instead foist unappealing dark pellets of bitter tea onto their unsuspecting pubic. Fortunately, Golden Moon decided to source something a bit tastier.

Spotlight On Green Tea

By William I. Lengeman III
If you’ve been following the flood of reports in the media over the course of the last decade or so you could be forgiven for thinking that green tea is the only type of tea. Never mind that there are five others – black, oolong, white, yellow and puerh. Though all [...]

Gunpowder Green Tea

No one can truly say how many varieties of tea there are, at least not with any degree of accuracy. Suffice to say that it’s a very large number - in the hundreds, at least, and perhaps even into the thousands. Even if you discount the other five types (black, oolong, puerh, yellow, white) and zero in on green tea, you’ll still find numerous varieties, many of them quite distinctive.

Green Tea And Liver Disease

By William I. Lengeman III
According to the American Liver Foundation, a condition called fatty liver occurs when excess fat in liver cells makes up more than ten percent of the liver’s overall weight. This condition can lead to serious complications and is estimated to affect 10-24 percent of people around the world and perhaps as [...]

Advantages of Green Tea Extract

An advantage of green tea capsules, or green tea extract, is that you don’t have to actually drink green tea to reap its benefits. In capsule or caplet form, green tea (Camellia sinensis) also has weight-loss attributes. For instance, green tea extract can actually help people who have metabolism problems.

Weight-Loss Attributes
If you have hypothyroidism or [...]

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