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Hi! Welcome to Tea Tips with me Doctor Tea, and of course my wonderful Comia Sinensis plant. Today, we are going to talk about green tea and some of the different varieties and you can find out all of that information in my book “The Ultimate Tea Diet”. Have you picked up your copy?
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Keep in mind that green tea has roughly 80% less caffeine than a regular cup of coffee and it does not matter which green tea you drink because they have all the same health benefits. Why? Because all tea comes from one plant, Comia Sinensis.
So, let us get started, green tea is made from the leaf taken from the plantation. Cleaned and dried and then they process it. Now, how do they process it? Well they use a number of ways to process it and we are going to go over those right now.
To start within China, they have the green tea in the most famous green tea called Dragon Well and Dragon Well was produce by taking the clean leaves and putting them into a beautiful hot wok and depending on how that wok is fired up, whether it is gassed or charcoaled or pit or whatever they might use it adds a different flavor to the green tea and you can see it here beautifully.
In Japan, the green tea is called Sencha. Sen=green, Cha=tea, Sencha. And in Japan, they take the clean leaves and they put it into a room and they steamed them, that is why Sencha tea is always so veritably green and it has much more of an angular flavor like that.
Here we have a very special tea from China, it is called Rock Tea. This is a famous tea, why, because this tea actually grows out of a river bed in the Fujian province of China and it is a rare and a price tea because it is grows out of the river bed adding the wonderful taste of fresh pure water, very high mineral content and [smelling the tea] oh, you can smell the rushing spring right there.
This is Green Gunpowder. Now, gunpowder is a green tea that was rolled up very tightly and I wanted to show this to you today because gunpowder was the first tea that made its way from China to Europe and eventually to the States. Remember, the States were originally a Dutch colony. The Dutch were the first one to take tea out of China to Holland, Urogo to the United States, and this is the tea that we were drinking in the United States before it was the United States when New York was New Amsterdam and George Washington had minimum of three cups of his gunpowder everyday. And I wanted to show you a wonderful tea from Japan called Genmaicha which is a green tea with the additive of puff brown rice. Great for digestion and adds a beautiful sweet flavor.
In China alone, there were over 20,000 varieties of green tea. So, I am sure there is one out there for you to start your journey towards good health, one cup of tea at a time and next week, be sure to stay tuned because you are going to find Doctor Tea in the kitchen.
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