A question about green tea!

AssaTM

AssaTM

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Hi all, i've decided to replace my tea drinking with green tea as I drunk it before and enjoyed it and the health benefits are numerous, but I was wondering are any of the green tea's you find at supermarkets ok to drink? or are there specific ones to avoid or? as if im going to drink it for it's healthy benefits, I might as well make sure I pick the good ones and not the cheap 5% green tea ones :D thank you :)
 
I prefer going to my local asian supermarket and getting something imported

seems to have more flavour, maybe they just are catering to a market with slightly different tastes..but it suits me more than the usual bagged brands

I prefer japanese green tea (sencha or matcha)
 
I drink Clipper Green Tea with Lemon. It's frequently on offer in the supermarkets and I just buy a load when it is.

Their plain green tea is one of the nicer ones too, but I find it much more drinkable with lemon. It's also quite nice when it goes cold which is good at work.
 
Why are you drinking it for its health benefits? Did you not like it in the first place?

I don't think people in china and Japan drinks it for its health benefits, why do westerners do that?

It baffles me, seems like marketing has worked and people has brought into it, drink it when they would much enjoy a cup of regular milk tea.
 
if you want healthy tea go for genko tea a lot better than green tea.

asian markets green tea are full of green tea leafs and not mixed like you get in tesco,asda stuff(or other brands)

plus agree with the above.
 
AssaTM said:
Hi all, i've decided to replace my tea drinking with green tea as I drunk it before and enjoyed it and the health benefits are numerous, but I was wondering are any of the green tea's you find at supermarkets ok to drink? or are there specific ones to avoid or? as if im going to drink it for it's healthy benefits, I might as well make sure I pick the good ones and not the cheap 5% green tea ones :D thank you :)
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What health benefits? Can you provide links to peer reviewed clinical trials or scientific publications?
 
Tea in the Far East are unbranded, there is no fancy bag, you buy them in tea shops and people don't care about the label, they buy tea for the flavour that they like, a bit like how westerners buy coffee beans, they choose the one they like because of where is grown, the region, the estate it is grown in and how it is roasted. I do not buy coffee beans because of the label, I apply the same to tea leaf.

When I make coffee at work in the kitchen you inevitably end up with these small talk, the one thing I hear every time is when someone gets a green tea bag from the cupboard they will say one of the following comments, with no exception

1 - it's meant to be good for you.
2 - it's full of anti oxidants.
3 - I am not a big fan of it but because it's supposed to be good for you so I'll make sure I drink one a day.
4 - I love the smell of coffee (that I am making), so I will over them some, yet they decline and prefer green tea because of one of the 3 above.

Then what baffles me is that they go out at the weekend and drinks 10 pints or have a whole bottle of wine that night. Alcohol is a poison, moderation is fine but people binge. The entire mindset of healthy living is a oxymoron. Is it a self gratification of telling one self you are treating your body well by drinking a cup of green tea a day, but do people remind one self how alcohol is causing havoc? Or the chocolate bar they eat an hour after the green tea, or the 20 cigarettes they smoke a day.

The entire thing is total backwards.

Drink green tea because you like it, it has no health benefits at all if the rest of your life style is killing you slowly. So why torture yourself when you could be enjoying a regular cup or coffee a lot more.

P.s. I read an article about the benefits of coffee to your health too, yet it doesn't catch on because it's not really marketed that way, it's marketed by Starbucks and the like with lots of sweet flavours and milk, which is what makes it calorific and not as healthy as a plain black cup of coffee.
 
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Green tea bags are equivalent to instant coffee inasmuch as it offers a convenient way to provide a drink that in the end is nothing like what a properly brewed cup would actually taste like. This is why they are often mixed with other ingredients to mask the poor quality and taste. The best way to experience green tea is to buy it loose leaf and experiment with the different varieties until you find one that you like. My personal favorite green tea is Oolong but there are many regions where this is produced and many grades. I have recently switched to white tea which is even less refined than green tea and as a result may have more of the beneficial qualities.

I generally buy my tea from this company - http://www.simpli-special.co.uk/ as their prices are very reasonable. I used to get their Ti Kuan Yin Oolong which I enjoyed but now get their Pai Mu Tan white tea. If money were no object I would buy my tea from here - http://jingtea.com/ quality (and price) is a step up.
 
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