Category Archives: Teas

More on Green Tea

Interesting article on Green Tea in The New York Times today.  As a vendor with well over 2 dozen selections of green tea, we get questions on Green Tea all the time – is it really as good for you as they say, which one should I have, why are they so bitter and on it goes.  Here’s [...]

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Raw movement coming to tea?

A company called Harmless Harvest has introduced a bottled tea made from Hawaiian-grown organic tea leaves that are quickly frozen after harvesting to retain much of their flavor.  They are then pulverized and blended with water using a cold-brew process.  As you know, all other tea is produced by drying the tea leaves.  Harmless Harvest’s [...]

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A Nice Cup of Tea

Tea is one of those areas where you can be amazed and delighted at what you don’t know.  Every column and media coverage presents a point of view and information that adds to your knowledge.  We came across this great article earlier this week on BBC Food and would like to share it with you.  It also [...]

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Beverages on the Rise in Restaurants

Tea continues to be a popular beverage choice among consumers eating out at restaurants.  Below is a recent survey published in the November 2012 issue of Beverage World.  One important finding was that Tap Water was the lead growth beverage and Iced Tea was the revenue-generating beverage driving growth across restaurant segments.  Excellent news indeed. GROWTH CATEGORIES [...]

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Tea in the USA

The Tea Association of the USA just published a Fact Sheet on how we consume tea in the USA – quite illuminating: 160 million Americans are drinking tea on any given day 85% of tea consumed in America is iced 80% of households in the US have tea in their kitchen In 2011, Americans consumed [...]

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