Benefits of Healthy Tea Drinks

All tea, white, green, oolong, and black comes from the same plant called Camellia sinensis. What determines a tea's "color", is the processing the leaves will undergo. Having stated that important fact, we will explore the differences between green and black tea.

1) Health Benefits:

Of course this is the most popular amoung many. When green tea is brought to mind, it is health aspects that receives the most interest. Over the years, green tea has received much attention on this topic, and a lot of research that has been conducted conclude that green offers many health benefits. But what about black tea? Does it offer any?

In this first match up, green has black beaten, but only by a few subtle numbers. Drinking a cup of black tea will offer the same benefits that green tea offers...just not in the same amounts. Simply put, there are double that amount of antioxidants found in a cup of green than a cup of black.

However, unless you drink the recommended 4 to 5 cups a day to achieve the long term benefits, these differences between green and black are small if you only drink an average of just one cup daily.

2) Caffeine:

Black tea has approximately half the amount of caffeine than a regular cup of coffee, and green tea contains half the amount of caffeine than black.

So, there are two ways to declare a winner with this one. As an example, if you are a morning person who wishes to ditch coffee but still needs a hot beverage with caffeine to help wake you up than black is your choice.

If you prefer to have a hot beverage in the evening but don't want the effects of the caffeine to keep you up all night, than green (or white tea) is the better choice.

3) Flavor:

It seems like green tea has a bad "grassy" reputation concerning taste. This only remains true if you steep it using tea bags. The result is always a bitter and fuzzy cup.

Loose leaf greens have a more sweeter, mellow, and balanced taste. While it is true that some varieties may be more "vegetal" than others, overall, the taste of green is rather pleasant. Starting off with mild varieties helps break the palate in for some of the stronger types.

Black tea steeped from tea bags suffers just the same. But when prepared loose leaf style, like green, will produce a more enjoyable cup. Black varieties have a more deeper and richer flavor which can range from being malty, earthy, citrus-like, rocky, smoky, and even chocolaty.

If one were to add sugar, honey, or milk black tea offers even more character.

The winner here is solely determined by the personal preference of each drinker...

4) Varieties:

Finally, we'll look at which offers the most varieties.

And to be honest, this one may never have an answer! World wide, there are thousands of varieties of each type, and that makes it impossible to draw a fair conclusion on which offers more.

What can be stated is that both green and black tea offer enough varieties and sub varieties to discover which will keep a tea lover happy for a very long time. Sure there are many popular types like English Breakfasf, Earl Grey, and Irish Breakfast for black...and "Dragonwell", "Sencha", and Pi Lo Chun" for green.

But like flavor, this topic also depends on what each person prefers.

So, while green tea may have black tea beaten on health benefits, there are many other factors to consider. And there is no "tea rule" that states you can only choose one type! Enjoy all types of tea for whatever situation or event you best see fit!

There are many benefits of lemon grass tea especially in today's world. Lemon grass is a plant that is mostly grown and used in the lands of Phillipines, India and most parts of the South-East Asia. It is famously known for its light, lemon flavor and a bit hint of ginger. Lemon grass is also known for the name of Citronella, which has calming effects that rids of insomnia and stress.

With its vast usage both as tea and grass, lemon grass has several major benefits listed below:
•Helps to improve blood circulation
•Helps to cope with excessive fats in body
•It contains an antibacterial and antifungal properties
•Helps in boosting the immune system
•Helps in reducing uric acid and excess fats
•It helps in alleviating indigestion and gastroenteritis
•Helps to improve the skin by reducing acne and pimples
•It helps in toning the muscle and tissues
•It helps in coping with fever
•Helps to deal with menstrual problems
•Proves beneficial in coping with acne and pimples
•It helps to lower the cholesterol level
•Helps to improve the digestive system
•Helps with cough and cold
•Helps in getting rid of stress
•Makes battle with high blood pressure easier
•It helps to detoxify the liver, pancreas, kidney, urinary bladder and the digestive tract.

Other benefits of lemon grass are: it can be used in cooking. Indians and Thai use this in their meals. Some of their foods are cooked by oil from lemon grass. It is healthy, safe and also has a good cholesterol that is beneficial to the body.


How to prepare lemon grass tea?

1. Get fresh leaves
2. Pour 2 cups of water in a cup that has quarterly filled by lemon grass
3. Then boil it for sometime like you are preparing a normal tea
4. Then Drink once it is boiled

That is it. Those are the benefits of lemon grass tea.