Top Antioxidant Teas
 

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

1. Celestial Seasonings Authentic Green Tea
2. Bigelow Green Tea
3. Uncle Lee's Green Tea
4. Lipton Black Tea
5. Salada Earl Green Tea
6. Lipton Green Tea
7. Wissotzky Earl Grey
8. Bigelow English Teatime
9. Bigelow Darjeeling Blend
10. Swee-Touch-Nee Black Tea

Most likely, these are just popular tea bag brands. Too bad white tea
wasn't included in the study.

Tried to locate this report on the web but only came up with the
following study

http://www.healthnews.ws/index.aspx?id=2085

which is mostly of interest to guys.

Anybody have a credible anti-oxidant ranking for loose teas?

Funded by Celestial Seasonings' parent company? Who is their parent
company? Bigelow? Sorry. Disregard.

Michael



2/7/05

> 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
>
> 1. Celestial Seasonings Authentic Green Tea
> 2. Bigelow Green Tea
> 3. Uncle Lee's Green Tea
> 4. Lipton Black Tea
> 5. Salada Earl Green Tea
> 6. Lipton Green Tea
> 7. Wissotzky Earl Grey
> 8. Bigelow English Teatime
> 9. Bigelow Darjeeling Blend
> 10. Swee-Touch-Nee Black Tea
>
> Most likely, these are just popular tea bag brands. Too bad white tea
> wasn't included in the study.
>
> Tried to locate this report on the web but only came up with the
> following study
>
> http://www.healthnews.ws/index.aspx?id=2085
>
> which is mostly of interest to guys.
>
> Anybody have a credible anti-oxidant ranking for loose teas?
>

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? 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.

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
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

"Lewis Perin" > ha scritto nel messaggio
...
> 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
> ---
> 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?

LOL!

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"Livio Zanini" > wrote in message
...
>
> 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?