This week, the results of a study published in the American Heart Association journal, Stroke indicated that the more green tea you drank, the more it reduced your chance of suffering a stroke. This was a significant study which included over 80,000 participants. Although widely known that catechins in green tea had beneficial effects on [...]
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New Tea Mints
We’ve been carrying Green Tea Mints from a company called Sencha Naturals for many years. Recently, they introduced new packaging and flavors and we just got them in. They are now in tubes and not only do they look great but they embody many eco-conscious changes implemented by the company including a solar-powered manufacturing facility [...]
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Double Happiness
The Tea Room requested some new Flowering Teas – they said something dramatic please. In our quest to find the perfect bloom, we sampled many, some with beguiling names – First Love, Sea Shell, Butterfly Flowers, Silver Treasure, etc. We settled on a few, this one being a favorite. You can see why it’s Double Happiness – [...]
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Coffee & Tea Trends
The August 2009 issue of Specialty Coffee Retailer, a trade magazine for the coffee/tea industry just published 2010 trends. It noted that breakfast teas, non-caffeine (rooibos) teas and the healthy reputation of green teas continued to resonate with consumers, and that this segment was expected to grow. George Jage, President of World Tea Expo and our friend, was [...]
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Yunnan Green Lily – New!
We used to have a phenomenal tea called Jing Mai Green. It was an authentic ancient forest green tea from Yunnan from the Jing Mai region. Over the years, the price crept up until it became unaffordable and we were forced to discontinue it. Today, we received our first batch of its replacement – another [...]
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