"Lewis Perin" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> writes:
>
> > Sandstone wrote:
> > > Spotted the following in a USA Today article
> > >
> > > Susanne M. Henning UCLA researcher and colleagues tested 20 tea
> > brands
> > > and found antioxidant variations were great. The top 10 of these teas
> > > were <snip>
> >
> >
> > When the box says "green tea", what kind of green tea is it?
>
> There's no way to know, but you can assume the packer got it fairly
> cheaply.
>
> > I've always wondered about that. I've tried plenty of ready-made
> > green tea in a can or bottle and they differ in taste.
>
> If you want a predictable taste, you need to know what kind of tea it
> is, and honestly, that only *reduces* the variation.
>
> /Lew
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> Lew Perin /
> http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

IMHO, when you have people drinking green tea just (or mainly) because it
contains antioxidants, let them drink whatever the green tea they want.
I once wan invited to serve some tea in a "new-age" school for shiatsu,
reiki, taijiquan, etc. I served a two years stale, low quality Longjing and
a wonderfull Anxi Tieguanyin. After tasting them people were all impresed by
the taste of TGY, but as soon as they were told that LJ is a green tea and
TGY is a light-oxised oolong, the all turned to say that the LJ was better
and asked me where they could buy that tea. What's the point in discussing
the quality of tea with these people?