Jasmine Green Tea

One of the most popular ways to add flavor and aroma to green tea in by adding Jasmine flowers. There are several varities of Jasmine Green Tea available on the market, the most common being Jasmine Dragon Pearl, Jasmine Silver Needle, and Jasmine Flower green tea.

Jasmine Dragon Pearl is the most popular of these options and is made by curing the green tea leaves with jasmine petals several times untill the natural essential oil of the jasmine flower is absorbed by the tea leaves. The tea leaves are then rolled into balls, or pearls to preserve them and keep the jasmine scent from dissapating and are then packaged in airtight containers and are ready for sale. Jasmine Dragon Pearl green tea is one of my favorite everyday teas and is available at my tea shop.

Jasmine Silver Needle is made from larger tea leaves and also involves curing the tea in Jasimine blossoms. Jasmine Silver Needle is more expensive and is considered a rare tea.

Jasmine Flower Tea is a beautiful hand crafted tea that contains the blossom of the Jasmine flower within a round ball of tea that actually blooms when you steep it in hot water. This is a great tea for special occaisions and one ball of Jasmine Flower Blooming Tea can serve up to four people.

Other commonly found and sometimes reffered to simply jasmine tea and are usually made of low to common grade tea leaves simply mixed with jasmine petals. Beware, as some low end producers of Jasmine teas use artificial fragrances to scent their jasmine teas.

Lose weight with white tea

This video is a follow up to my last post about tea and burning fat. It is about white tea, which is a very delicious young leaf green tea, but oolong, (you may have seen the wu yi and wu long craze on the Internet) black, green and white teas all have these fat burning properties. And remember, the higher quality and fresher your tea the better in term of both taste and quantity of healthy antioxidants and polyphenols. So check out my great selection of loose leaf teas at my Tea Temple tea shop at the bottom of the page.

New Tea and Weight Loss Study

In a brand new study, published May 1, 2009, in the Journal of Nutrtition and Metabolism, researchers concluded that Tea, this time white tea, not only burned fat but inhibited its formation.

READ THE FULL STUDY HERE

White tea is made from the young leaves of the same tea plant that makes green and black teas. It is just more delicate and lighter than most green teas when brewed, but contains many of the same healthy antioxidants, polyphenols and other beneficial substances. These properties in green, white, oolong and black teas speed up your body's fat burning process and help to block fats from forming.

High quality, loose leaf, teas like I sell here at the Tea Temple Tea Shop contain the highest concentration of these beneficial antioxidants. So, whether you want to burn a little fat off your body or just get the best tasting and highest quality teas at the best prices on the Web, this is your place.

Don't take Green Tea Supplements

Before you shell out a bunch of money for the green tea wonder pill, full of catechins, polyphenols, antioxidants and other fancy and scientific sounding components, CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE HERE.

It seems that some of the pills, capsules and other supplements of green tea products on the market are contaminated with lead or not quite what they advertise themselves to be. And how could they be? They are pills, and there is nothing natural about a pill.

What these low brow scam artists that manufacture expensive green tea health supplements dont want you to know is that the amount of catechins, polyphenols and other health giving antioxidants that are present in green tea dont survive processing very well. In fact, High quality, loose leaf green tea is much healthier and much cheaper than any cheesy supplement that could be made in a lab. If you want to experience the health benefits of green tea for your self, leave the pills on the shelf where they belong and order some organic loose leaf green tea from me here at the Tea Temple, brew for 2-5 minutes in a french press or tea pot ( which I also sell) and drink a couple of cups a day. Throw those pills away. Its that simple.

Green tea and obesity

A study done at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia showed that not only did the catechins in green tea cause cancer cells to die but fats cells as well. The study, published in a journal called Obesity Reasearch, came to the conclusion that the catechins in Green Tea can and do act on mature fat cells; called adipocytes, the same way they do on cancer cells: they cause them to self destruct.
HERE IS A LINK TO THE STUDY

The conclusion that the reaserachers came to is that green tea could be an important part of the the treatment of obesity. Of course, this is a treatment you can do yourself at home.

Now, we see that, according to the researchers, it is the catechins that are responsible for green teas fat fighting effect. Catechins are a type of polyphenol antioxidant that are found in higher concentrations in the high quality loose leaf green teas like the kind I sell here at The Tea Temple. So, whether or not you are interested in letting green tea help you burn off unwanted fat (it also helps with a ton of other conditions), you should take the time tyo look wround and pick out a couple of the great green, oolong or bloack teas that I have available at the best prices on the Internet.

Green tea and antibiotic resistant bacteria

In this day and age of ever evolving flus like the swine flu and new forms of infection that are resistant to antibiotics, there is lot to be learned from natural substances like green tea.

MRSA is a staph infection that was known for a while as the "superbug', because it could not be stopped by conventional antibiotic treatment. It spread through hospitals and schools through skin contact and was a cause for great alarm.

In a new study in Japan, elderly patients with MRSA infections in their respitory passages were given green tea catechins to inhale. That's right, they sniffed powdered green tea up their nose! But the conclusion found that reatment with green tea catechins reduced MRSA count!
HERE IS THE LINK TO THE STUDY

Catechins are a type of polyphenol found in green, oolong and black teas and are found in higher amounts in the high quality loose leaf green teas like the teas I sell here at the Tea Temple Tea shop. Please check out my great tea selection at the bottom of the page or visit mountain rose for bulk tea orders at a great price. But don't sniff the tea up your nose!

Green tea lowers cholesterol

Well it looks like green tea is good for your arteries and heart health as well as the many other health benefits I have covered on this blog. A new study in Japan, done on workers aged 40-69, came to the conclusion that consumption of green tea is associated with lower levels of serum cholesterol. YAY!
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STUDY

Another interesting fact covered in this study was that the effect on cholesterol levels seemed to level off at ten cups of green tea a day. What? Does this mean that each cup of green tea consumed daily brought more benefit up to the ten cup limit? If this is the case then we should all be drinking as much green tea as possible.

We all know that it is the antioxidants and polyphenols in green tea that gives it its health promoting benefits like lowering cholesterol levels. High quality loose leaf green teas, like the ones I sell here at the tea temple tea shop, contain the highest amount of these potent substances. So check out my list of great priced favorite green, oolong and black teas on the left or scroll down for my tea shop. If you would like to buy bulk teas at a great price visit my tea loving friends at mountain rose herbals by clicking the banner below.

Green tea and diabetes

Well we all may or may not know that coffee consumption is linked to a lower risk of typ 2 diabetes; the condition that used to be called adult onset diabetes unitill children started getting it too, but now we now that both gree and black teas have that effect too. HERE IS THE STUDY

It appears that the caffiene in tea and coffee is resposnsible for the up to 33% percent lowereed risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Since the caffiene in teas is mediatied by other polyphenols and antioxidants that dont have some of the jittery side effects that coffe has, drinking gree tea on a daily basis may be your best bet for warding off diabetes as well as the host of other health issues that I try to cover here on my tea blog.

My online shop, the tea temple tea shop has the best selection on the Internet of high quality, loose leaf, green teas so please take a look at my favorites over on the left, or click the right corner to go directly to the tea shop. For bulk teas and great deals on a variety of green, oolong and black teas; visit mountain rose by clicking the banner below.

Green tea and high blood pressure

Well it turns out that there is quite a controversy about whether green tea lowers high blood pressure or not. On one side you have the guys who say that caffeine, any kind of caffeine, will elevate blood pressure, but then there are a bunch of studies on mice and other models that show green and black teas to positively effect both blood pressure levels as well as hypertension and general cardiovascular health. You can judge for yourself, THIS GUY HAS A GREAT COMPILATION OF STUDIES ON GREEN TEA AND HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, but the fact remain that all highly antioxidant foods seem to positively affect artery strength, cardio functioning and over all physical health. So buy your polyphenol and antioxidant rich loose leaf green teas here at my tea temple tea shop.