Green tea?

[killer2021]

I've heard a lot of good benefits from drinking this stuff. Anyone drink it? or am I listening to more FDA propaganda?

[TruAuBug]

I started drinking it when I quit drinking soda and coffee. I think its good as long as you don't add any sugar to it.

TAB

[sanyo]

Green tea has high levels of Flouride.

[David Merrill]

I've heard a lot of good benefits from drinking this stuff. Anyone drink it? or am I listening to more FDA propaganda?


For years now I have been drinking green tea in kombucha every day. It keeps my blood clean. The green tea is loaded with antioxidants which help prevent cancer.

The kombucha culture produces B vitamins which are fresh and quickly ingested. Healthy stuff...

I do not think any of the flouride comes from the green tea - it comes from flouridated water. But if I am incorrect and green tea has flouride, I would like more information.


Regards,

David Merrill.

[Streets Of Gold]

For years now I have been drinking green tea in kombucha every day. It keeps my blood clean. The green tea is loaded with antioxidants which help prevent cancer.

The kombucha culture produces B vitamins which are fresh and quickly ingested. Healthy stuff...

I do not think any of the flouride comes from the green tea - it comes from flouridated water. But if I am incorrect and green tea has flouride, I would like more information.


Regards,

David Merrill.

Sweet, Kombucha

Kombucha Tea

[Akula]

I am going to start brewing kombucha soon. Buying it ready made is damn expensive. Am I correct in thinking that each new batch produces a new culture for producing your next batch?

[phideaux]

I'm sipping on a cup of the green stuff as we speak. Much better for you than regular tea, or for sure the sugarwater sold as "coffee" at StarBunks.

Never heard about a potential flouride problem. Doesn't make sense to me. It's got to ba the water, not the tea.

[ajrocks]

my girl got us on the zone/chefs diet and they gave us some green tree extract that you put in water or whatever. I've drank green tree for a while.
Do some research you'll see that most of the history and aging/health benefits of the Asians are pointed to green tree.

Supposedly helps boost the metabolism!

http://chinesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa011400a.htm

http://www.japanesegreenteaonline.com/

http://www.celestialseasonings.com/tea-health/benefits-green-tea.html

http://www.bodybuildingforyou.com/health-supplements/green-tea-extract.htm

http://www.mercola.com/2005/mar/5/green_tea_extract.htm

http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/Green-Tea-Can-Help-Protect-Your-Bones-13474.aspx

Hope these help

[Streets Of Gold]

I am going to start brewing kombucha soon. Buying it ready made is damn expensive. Am I correct in thinking that each new batch produces a new culture for producing your next batch?


That is correct. You can then give away the cultures or use them for.... well whatever, from feeding your plants to washing your face. I think making Kombucha extract is the best idea make your own press or buy one

Kombucha press (http://happyherbalist.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=146)

[Old_Nickel]

I started drinking it when I quit drinking soda and coffee. I think its good as long as you don't add any sugar to it.

TAB

Wow! Finally I meet someone who likes unsweetened (and non-diet) tea! I can't stand sweetened tea. Except that highly-addictive, chemical-packed Sobe stuff :smokin: :laugh:

[TruAuBug]

Wow! Finally I meet someone who likes unsweetened (and non-diet) tea! I can't stand sweetened tea. Except that highly-addictive, chemical-packed Sobe stuff :smokin: :laugh:

Well I do got to admit I do like the occasional Arizona Sweet Tea.:D

TAB

[BeefJerky]

Drinking some right now.

[RaccoonRiverRadical]

Green tea is my main drink. Newbies keep in mind brew time is short, like 50 seconds, as it quickly turns acid.

[SilverBull71]

I love Green Tea as a refreshing healthy drink, but if your looking for something more for health, try Barley Grass Juice powder. I started drinking it recently and I have been hearing a lot of good things about it lately.


http://www.regenerativenutrition.com/content.asp?id=22







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[smullen]

I used to drink a sh!t ton of Pepsi, like a 1 -1.5 2 Liters a day, but I cut back to like one glass of Pepsi a week or so sometimes not even that much.... Now I drink mostly unsweetend (usually) green tea...

[Chameleon]

I love green tea. I tend to prefer Japanese, which is steamed, to the Chinese.

Check out o-cha.com or your local Japanese import store for some.

For me, it's much nicer to my body than coffee.

See also the Upton tea company for a good selection of blacks.

[Jonas Parker]

Green tea is an excellent diuretic.

[mrearlygold]

My Wife brews a fresh new pitcher for me every night and I finish it thryout the next day. I drink it as ice tea and it's great.

She's also the food and excercise police in the house . She's from Vietnam and changes she's helped me make in terms of my diet, excercise, holistic medical care, has definitely helped me not only avoid the surgeons who wanted to cut me a few more times ( I had open heart surgery a little more than 3 years ago ) but I've also experienced a substantive change in how I feel, how I'm able to perform physically etc etc.

[fromserpo]

anyone tried gynostemma tea

try googling that one, so many health benefits according to Chinese its not funny

[missdolly]

I'm sipping on a cup of the green stuff as we speak.
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Just wondering, how do you prepare it? Do you just add hot water to some powder or do you have the leaves?

[gopher29]

I'm a big iced tea drinker. My favorite brand is Diet Snapple Raspberry flavored Iced Tea but I'll consume most any brand that is on sale.

[yunowu]

It seems like after drinking hot green tea, I do no get colds as often.

[steel_ag]

funny this came up, am drinking some now to help get rid of this damn cold I have...
I'm gonna email one of these green tea companies and ask em about the fluoride content

[nub]

Just wondering, how do you prepare it? Do you just add hot water to some powder or do you have the leaves?

I always buy in bulk from places like Adagio tea.........
http://www.adagio.com/?gclid=CMGDvYO47JYCFQsQagod62X3qA

Excellent teas and check out the Engenuitea on the home page link I gave, it is the fastest easiest bulk tea brewing device I've used to date.....it's what I use most often ,but I still put my Japanese tea pot to use on ocasion.

CoffeAM has good prices on blk tea also ....... for Assam tea go to TFactor, there's is the best I've found, for chinese tea Twohills tea is quite good and they have been around a long time.

Adagio is a great one stop shop for tea, and very good quality.....they try to educate as well.

[nub]

For years now I have been drinking green tea in kombucha every day. It keeps my blood clean. The green tea is loaded with antioxidants which help prevent cancer.

The kombucha culture produces B vitamins which are fresh and quickly ingested. Healthy stuff...

I do not think any of the flouride comes from the green tea - it comes from flouridated water. But if I am incorrect and green tea has flouride, I would like more information.


Regards,

David Merrill.



I made it for about 6 months, I finally let the wort die....I was kinda sad:bawling:

[jedemdasseine]

Tin foil hat time. If you really want to prevent cancer, finish off your daily apple by eating the seeds. They contain vitamin B17, which has been purposefully suppresed as a cancer fighter. (There's no money in a cure your can't patent.) And that nice amaretto taste? That's the cyanide! Don't worry, in apple seed form, you'd have to gorge yourself on apple seeds all day to get any ill effects. Cultures whose diets contain high levels of B17 rarely if ever have cancer. I'm no expert on the subject, so DYODD.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Tin foil hat time. If you really want to prevent cancer, finish off your daily apple by eating the seeds. They contain vitamin B17, which has been purposefully suppresed as a cancer fighter. (There's no money in a cure your can't patent.) And that nice amaretto taste? That's the cyanide! Don't worry, in apple seed form, you'd have to gorge yourself on apple seeds all day to get any ill effects. Cultures whose diets contain high levels of B17 rarely if ever have cancer. I'm no expert on the subject, so DYODD.

Cyanide and other poisons stay in your system and build up over time. So does arsenic which is also in the seeds.

However, B17 is real and there are sources for it that don't involve poisoning yourself. Although you are correct when you say that a couple apple seeds won't hurt you, eating them in the quanities that would help you, would also hurt you.


All vitamin grade B17 is derived from Apricot seeds. You can also get oil pressed from apricot seeds, which my skin drinks up greedily if I get any on it...

Try googling for: apricot seeds B17 cancer cure

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

I drink tea, everyday.

Green Tea, White Tea, Wulong, Black tea with mint....

I love me some tea.

No sugar. Just tea please.

[Golden Eagle]

I drink tea, everyday.

Green Tea, White Tea, Wulong, Black tea with mint....

I love me some tea.

No sugar. Just tea please.

Ditto that. Japanese green and ginger too. No sugar ever!

I add honey sparingly if I feel the urge for the sweetness.

[RJB]

I like mine unsweetened too. (adding crack would probably be safer and less addicting :)

I also like yerba mate tea.