Earl Grey Tea.....any health benefits besides soothing?
01-01-07, 11:58 PM
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Earl Grey Tea.....any health benefits besides soothing?
I like green tea, but I really like Earl Grey. Any nutrition benefits that would encourage me to drink more?
01-02-07, 12:04 AM
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I think green tea has more antioxidants than earl grey- antioxidants are of course useful in reducing cancer risks
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01-02-07, 02:52 PM
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Earl Grey tea is mostly black tea with a natural flavoring made from bergamot flowers. As a source of antioxidants, black tea is nearly as good as green tea.
"In my lab, we found that green and black tea had identical amounts of polyphenols," he tells WebMD. "We found that both types of tea blocked DNA damage associated with tobacco and other toxic chemicals. In animal studies, tea-drinking rats have less cancer."
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I have both Bigelow brand regular Earl Gray (Black Tea) and Earl Gray Green (Green Tea). I first had Earl Gray tea in Sydney Australia at our hotel in 2001.
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Hey, never discount the psychological value of "soothing". If it makes you happy to drink it and doesn't harm, it will improve your health.
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I figure the Asians drinking green tea live longer than the british drinking earl grey, so any literature saying black tea gives the same benefits is british marketing trying to catch up 
01-03-07, 12:32 AM
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Most green tea tastes horrible--like straw. One exception is Tazo green tea, which also has added flower flavoring, not too different from Earl Grey but with a lighter quality. Or try Darjeeling, a black tea known as the champagne of teas. Why I don't know, but it does taste good. Assam tea is very strong and has a smoky taste. If you like flavored tea, Constant Comment is good--black tea with cloves and orange peel. I think it's soothing and it reminds me of my mother.
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Check out Wikipedia Health benefits of tea
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https://www.africantea.com/About_Rooi...oibos_tea.html
Check out that link. I found out about this tea on a bicycling forum. It's delicious and even better for you than regular tea. It doesn't have much tannin in it so it does not require much sweetener to cover up bitterness.
Check out that link. I found out about this tea on a bicycling forum. It's delicious and even better for you than regular tea. It doesn't have much tannin in it so it does not require much sweetener to cover up bitterness.
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Originally Posted by margoC
https://www.africantea.com/About_Rooi...oibos_tea.html
Check out that link. I found out about this tea on a bicycling forum. It's delicious and even better for you than regular tea. It doesn't have much tannin in it so it does not require much sweetener to cover up bitterness.
Check out that link. I found out about this tea on a bicycling forum. It's delicious and even better for you than regular tea. It doesn't have much tannin in it so it does not require much sweetener to cover up bitterness.
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Originally Posted by Jarery
I figure the Asians drinking green tea live longer than the british drinking earl grey, so any literature saying black tea gives the same benefits is british marketing trying to catch up
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I read recently that adding milk destroys the benefits of tea.
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I am, sir, being British myself and partial to green, camomile, roobush (vanilla), and fennel, and yes, even earl grey tea. Though, ironically, black tea with or without milk, has never been my, er, cup of tea.
An expresso used to be high up my list as well, until I cut caffine.
Ahh, the memory.
An expresso used to be high up my list as well, until I cut caffine.
Ahh, the memory.
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I am, sir, being British myself and partial to green, camomile, roobush (vanilla), and fennel, and yes, even earl grey tea. Though, ironically, black tea with or without milk, has never been my, er, cup of tea.
An expresso used to be high up my list as well, until I cut caffine.
Ahh, the memory.
An expresso used to be high up my list as well, until I cut caffine.
Ahh, the memory.
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Originally Posted by donnamb
Hey, never discount the psychological value of "soothing". If it makes you happy to drink it and doesn't harm, it will improve your health.
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I'm considering unsweetened tea as a pre-race drink because of low glycemic index and caffeine content. Can't really stomach coffee and de-fizzed coke has too much sugar. Although I wonder if I mix protein powder with Jolt, hmmm . . .
Anyway, the wikipedia entry says tea has about half as much caffeine per cup as coffee but some teas have more caffeine than other teas. Anyone look into this? ie. which tea has most caffeine?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine
Anyway, the wikipedia entry says tea has about half as much caffeine per cup as coffee but some teas have more caffeine than other teas. Anyone look into this? ie. which tea has most caffeine?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine
Tea is another common source of caffeine. Tea usually contains about half as much caffeine per serving as coffee, depending on the strength of the brew. Certain types of tea, such as black and oolong, contain somewhat more caffeine than most other teas. Tea contains small amounts of theobromine and slightly higher levels of theophylline than coffee. Preparation has a significant impact on tea, and color is a very poor indicator of caffeine content.[12] Teas like the green Japanese gyokuro, for example, contain far more caffeine than much darker teas like lapsang souchong, which has very little.
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Originally Posted by SwollenYak
try yerba mate...
03-09-07, 01:20 AM
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Black tea has the most, which I'm pretty sure is about half as much as coffee, green about half as much as black, white less than that. Something like English breakfast, which is really black and not a mixed brew like Earl Grey (which I thought was actually a blend of black and green, though an earlier and probably more knowledgeable poster said it was black and bergamon) is probably at the upper end of the scale.
Yerba mate must be up around the same amount as coffee.
Yerba mate must be up around the same amount as coffee.
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BBC Link
Originally Posted by BBC News
Milk in tea 'blocks health gains'
Drinking tea without milk could have more health benefits
Adding milk to a cup of tea can destroy its ability to protect against heart disease, according to research.
Drinking tea without milk could have more health benefits
Adding milk to a cup of tea can destroy its ability to protect against heart disease, according to research.
