New Brand Alert: Ahmad Tea 🚨

Coming to you from the UK, this family business has nothing but amazing tasting teas to offer. We decided to add this brand based on your input as our consumers because we had a ton of recommendations to sell it! There are a total of four generations behind this business so they definitely know what …

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Breakdown of Brands: Yogi

  If you're looking for a tea to help with stomach pain, sore throats, antioxidants or anything specific, this is a great brand for you. Especially as cold season is coming around from the weather change nothing is better than a hot cup of tea. Yogi Bhajan was a yoga teacher with lovely holistic ways. …

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April 2015 Tea of Month – Bingo Blueberry

Our other Tea of the Month is Bingo Blueberry, a full flavored tea with a strong blueberry character. Enjoy 15% off this tea for the rest of the month. This particular tea was specially formulated to acknowledge the great taste and known health benefits of blueberries. In addition to the antioxidants in the blueberries, hibiscus brings …

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Matcha: The One Healthy Tea to Rule Them All?

Here's my oft-repeated opinion on the health benefits of tea, condensed to one sentence: I don't deny that there's evidence that tea can be healthy, but there's no shortage of people who are eager to stretch those claims in the interest of selling tea. While many claims for tea's benefits center on green tea, there …

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Tea and Antioxidants

Tea is not just good but it’s also good for you - or so the story goes. There are a number of research studies that have offered compelling evidence in favor of this notion. A number of brief articles have also appeared at this very site examining how tea might help us in treating various …

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Go Green (Tea) for St. Patty’s Day

Green shamrocks, green hair, green clothes, green hats, even rivers dyed green — um, I think I’ll stick with green tea this St. Patty’s Day. It’s healthy, it’s tasty, and it’s green! Repeat after me as we skip down the yellow brick road of teadom: flavonoids, polyphenols, and catechins — oh, my! These magical ingredients …

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Iced Tea vs. Hot Tea

By William I. Lengeman III There’s plenty of compelling evidence these days to support the notion that drinking tea can confer health benefits upon the consumer. But what about iced and bottled teas and tea-based beverages? How do they stack up in terms of health benefits against a plain old cup of hot tea? A …

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Tea Rituals

Tea with its antioxidants and immune boosting properties is not only nutritionally regenerative, but its external properties are restorative as well. One of the only Far Eastern traditions to find a real home in Western civilization, tea rituals are shared world wide. Tea, and the rituals surrounding it, bridges the gap between many different peoples …

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Tea with Milk, Lemon or Sugar

Adding milk, lemon, or sugar to your tea will likely make a tea purist pop his top. The purist considers adding a spoonful of sugar to be the equivalent of wasting a perfectly good cup of tea, because you could get the same result by adding a spoonful of sugar to a cup of hot …

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