Green tea compounds, such as epigallocatechin-3 gallate (EGCG) and L-theanine, might help protect against age-related ...

You can make mint tea with spearmint or peppermint leaves and can serve it hot or cold ... is loaded with menthol and menthone, giving it a sharp, spicy flavor. There is some limited evidence ...

Nothing beats a warm, flavorful cup of tea. Whether your favorite tea is black, green, oolong, or herbal, you want to taste those notes of spices, fruit, or herbs instead of just the hot water.

Gunpowder – a Chinese green tea with a dry, quite sharp flavour, so-called because the leaves curl up into ‘gunpowder balls’ and unfurl when hot water is added. Formosa Oolong – a pale ...

A new study published in ACS Food Science & Technology, found that tea leaves naturally adsorb heavy metals, filtering out harmful water contaminants like lead, cadmium or arsenic. The metals ...

“We’re not suggesting that everyone starts using tea leaves as a water filter,” said co-author Vinayak Dravid, who studies sorbent materials at Northwestern University. “Our goal was to ...

The authors then added tea leaves or bags and steeped them for various time periods, from seconds to 24 hours, before measuring how much of the metals remained in the water. “Nylon tea bags are ...

Heavy metal ions stick to, or adsorb to, the surface of the tea leaves, where they stay trapped until the used tea bag is disposed of. The study was published in the journal ACS Food Science ...

Finely ground black tea leaves performed best at removing toxic heavy metals. Longer steeping times helped tea remove larger amounts of contaminants. Good news for tea lovers: That daily brew ...