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Aug 8
5 min

Drinking Tea and Losing Weight - What Science Tells Us

Our weight basically depends on many factors - the number of calories we consume, how many of those we burn up, and how many we store as ...

Finding the Calm in the Chaos One Cup of Tea at a Time

RVL

Apr 18, 2017
2 min

Finding the Calm in the Chaos One Cup of Tea at a Time

To get ready to deal with the chaos at work, you probably will grab a cup of coffee to jump-start your day. The caffeine in your coffee h...

RVL

Jul 15, 2016
3 min

True Artistry in a Cup of Tea

From a flowering evergreen, called Camellia sinensis, with glossy green leaves tapering to a spearlike point with serrated edge comes the...

A dance called the "Agony of the Leaves"

RVL

Feb 18, 2016
1 min

A dance called the "Agony of the Leaves"

Imagine some rolled or curled dark brown leaves in hot water moving with so much grace, gently unfurling to reveal how the leaves must ha...

RVL

Jan 28, 2016
2 min

The Experience of Appreciating Tea

Tea drinking is not just about the taste; it is more about the experience before, during and after drinking. Like any experience, you wou...

Black tea has more caffeine than other teas. Really?

RVL

Dec 17, 2015
2 min

Black tea has more caffeine than other teas. Really?

Can the color of your tea tell you how much caffeine is in it? How about the taste? You probably believe that there is more caffeine in y...

RVL

Oct 13, 2015
1 min

Red Tea is Black Tea

(Updated) The tea with highly oxidized leaves referred to as black tea in the West is red tea in China (hongcha), Japan (kocha) and Korea...

RVL

Oct 11, 2015
1 min

Afternoon Tea is not High Tea

Often confused, Afternoon Tea and High Tea are actually not the same. Afternoon Tea started in the mid-1840s when the Duchess of Bedford,...

RVL

Oct 7, 2015
1 min

What is True Tea?

Not because a beverage is labeled as tea and prepared the same way as you would a tea, it is a tea. If it is made of fresh or dried flowe...

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