Okay, enough politics for awhile. Back to the tea.According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which is a weird name for a paper (I'm gonna intelligence you), up to 80 percent of the healthy antioxidants in green tea lose their power in stored tea or in your intestine and don't get absorbed at all. Sadness! How to combat this? Brew fresh tea and add lemon. According to "researchers" (I would feel more intelligenced, Seattle P-I, if you told me which researchers) a 50-50 citrus/tea mix will best preserve the antioxidants in green tea. Lemon works best, followed by orange. Yum!
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Interesting. Of course we all prefer to drink fresh tea... but there are a lot of teas that I'd rather not drink with flavoring. I guess it's just as well that I drink tea for the flavor more than I drink it for the health benefits.
Earl Grey is made with bergamot oil, bergamot being a type of orange from Italy. I wonder if it helps; especially with green Earl Grey.
Incidentally, the Seattle P.I. (as it was called around here) was one of Seattle's two major papers, and closed down this past year, along with a lot of other great papers like the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.
- Matthew
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