Thursday, May 17, 2018

Benefits of Drinking Tea





Hello Tea Drinkers,


On today's post we are here to talk about one of the many positive effects tea has on our bodies. For starters tea consists of antioxidants polyphenols, tea contains less caffeine than coffee, tea is calorie free, it aids digestion and tea hydrates the body.


Different types of tea give us different types of benefits.


Green Tea: fights cancer, prevents cavities, lowers cholesterol, speeds up metabolism and prevents diabetes and dementia.


White Tea: Has antibacterial properties, reduces risk of cardiovascular disorders, aids in managing diabetes and it beneficial in weight loss.


Black Tea: Can help lower blood pressure, can help prevent heart disease, prevents breast cancer and provides relief from asthma.


Earl Grey Tea: Fights anxiety, gives relief from stress, improves digestion and prevents tooth decay.


Tea has many benefits, for just one cup of tea it has so many properties that had a positive effect on our bodies. Considering tea is relatively cheap to buy (depending on the brand/quality/shop) it has a priceless effect on your bodies overall internal and external health. Tea has so many different flavours there's bound to be at least one tea that you like the taste of with benefits of it's own. The world is your oyster and you got to take a grip of it and take care of yourself and tea can help your health immensely... so next time you feel under the weather make sure you grab that cup of tea and have your daily dose of fantastic benefits in just own cup!





Don't forget to have your daily cup today!!
 


Friday, May 4, 2018

Which is the Best Biscuit to Dunk in Your Tea

Yo! Yo! Yo! My fellow fans of tea!


It's the crazy tea lady back again with another blog post. Today's blog is about which biscuit is the unTEAmate best for dunking in your tea. I personally judge it on flavour and dunkability (how long you can out it in the tea before it detaches from the biscuit and disintegrates). My personal favourite biscuit to dunk into tea would either be an all-butter shortbread or "fox's chunkie cookies milk chocolate chunks". Other favourable mentions would be digestives (chocolate and original, maryland chocolate chip cookies and all-butter chocolate biscuits.
 MashableUK did a dunkability test. They tested out eleven biscuits such as custard cream, rich tea, digestive, chocolate digestive, bourbon cream, ginger nut, hobnob, malted milk, chocolate hobnob, shortbread and a jammie dodger.
 They tested out the biscuits by making a fresh cup of tea as he temperature comes into effect when seeing how fast the biscuit falls apart with each biscuit and timing how long it took until the biscuit disintegrated when submerged 50% into the tea.
 The results were:
11th- Ginger nut- 22 seconds
10th- Digestive- 23 seconds.
9th- Hobnob- 36 seconds.
8th- Chocolate Hobnob- 44 seconds
7th- Rich Tea- 47 seconds.
6th- Chocolate Digestive- 60 seconds.
5th- Malted Milk- 76 seconds.
4th-  Shortbread-102 seconds.
3rd- Jammie Dodger- 47 seconds... although it lasted shorter than the shortbread, malted milk
        and chocolate digestive it's taste remained for longer than them all.
2nd- Bourbon- 125 seconds.
1st- Custard Cream- 125 seconds... It may have lasted the same amount as the bourbon it's taste
       remained for longer than the bourbon.


I agree with this verdict, however I think they could have included another biscuit rather than the malted milk as I don't think it is as popular as other biscuits.


Hope you enjoyed that tea-rific test
See ya next time!!



Monday, April 30, 2018

Tea our Fave Bev!


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Hey you crazy tea lovers! I'm back again with another post on our favourite beverage. Since my introduction have any of you readers looked up where your tea is from? I've been interested in this topic since there was an advertisement on television for a tea company and it showed it's viewers what a tea farms are actually like and the conditions in them which aren't the best and not where I'd have a desire to work in the extremely hot heat, which intense physical labour for the smallest of wages. I have so much respect for the commitment of tea farmers and all the hard work they put in for my ten minutes of relaxation.



 Does the origin of tea effect it's taste? Does it really matter where tea come from? Yes! Different types of tea leaves give off different tastes and different types of tea, for example the Assam variety of tea is known for it's fruity taste and floral aroma. The taste and aroma of tea is also determined by the way in which it is roasted. Roasting the tea leaf is the last step in the process of producing the tea after the leaf is dry.
 Different tea farms produce their tea differently. Next time you're bored while your tea is brewing read the back of your tea bag box, you might find out something you didn't know before!


Stay beau-tea-ful!!



Friday, April 13, 2018

Welcome to the Geography of Tea!!




Welcome my fellow tea and geography lovers! I'm writing this blog as I love tea and I'm a fellow tea lover myself and I wanted to find out more about where my tea was coming from AND where in the world is THE BEST tea made in! I understand this may not be everyone's cup of tea ;) (pardon the pun XD).
So join the par-tea, it's going to be tea-riffic!!!!!

P.S. Question of the day: Are you a Barry's lover or a Lyons lover?😋 😏