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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 has a stimulating effect on the central nervous system that produces an alert state with increased energy and focus which, in appropriate amounts, has real health benefits. Now, imagine getting the right amount of caffeine with all its energy-boosting benefits and having that work synergistically with another bioactive compound that keeps you

Tea drinking is not just about the taste; it is more about the experience before, during and after drinking. Like any experience, you would want a good one, right? So key to the experience is the tea that you will be brewing and drinking. Judging, then, how good a tea is requires attention to detail. Judging a tea involves the five senses. So let us start… Look at the tea leaves before and after brewing. Whole leaves? Broken? Even-sized? Mixed with buds? Vibrant color or colo

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 your cup of tea the darker its liquor or the stronger its flavor, right? Thus, a cup of white tea or green tea has less caffeine than a cup of black tea. However, recent research studies say that this may not be the case. Caffeine occurs naturally in a variety of plants, including tea. It protects the leaves, especially the fresh buds, from i

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 flowers, leaves, fruits, stems, seeds or roots other than the leaves from a tea bush, it is called a tisane or herbal infusion or simply an infusion. True tea comes from Camellia sinensis, a flowering evergreen that can grow to a height of fifty feet. For easy harvesting, small tea gardens and large commercial plantations normally prune the tea p