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I have always been a skeptic when I see “natural flavorings”. I dismiss it as a hoax to entice the willing to buy a product that really is not very natural or organic. However recently having put some study into … Continue reading
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I love chai. The spices seem to me to be a perfect scientific alchemy, a balance of spices, designed to produce, not only a uniquely flavorful tea, but also one with a little natural pick me up. This perfect harmony of … Continue reading
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One of summers delights
As summer gets near, outdoor events are all the more enticing. Few things are as satisfying as an iced cold drink which is as healthful as it is thirst quenching.
After Moon Peaches Black Tea is a perfect flavor combination of ripe juicy peaches, dripping with natural sweetness, with the brisk and full body of organic blended fine Indian black teas. This mouth watering iced tea blend is a crowd pleaser for family and friends.
ripe juicy sliced peaches
Personally I adore the rich flavor of black tea, especially a fine quality organic black tea, fresh and brimming with abundant malty flavors and briskness. I love it hot and I love it iced cold. I was very pleased to discover recent medical studies praising the healthful qualities of black tea. It is not often I find that what I enjoy most is also really good for me.
The studies and benefits: new research done by Milton Schiffenbauer of Pace University suggests that drinking either green or black tea can help wipe out viruses in your mouth, (like herpes), and also help prevent diarrhea, pneumonia, cystitis, and skin infections. He states that these teas “deactivate” such viruses.
Refreshing After Moon Peaches
Studies done at Rutgers University reveal that black tea may help prevent stomach, prostate, and breast cancer. The chemicals found in black tea show it may slow down cancer growth. A compound called TF-2 causes such cancer cells to “commit suicide” while normal cells remain unaffected.
Dr. Kuang Yu Chen of Rutgers states that TF-2 has very interesting properties for fighting colon cancer cells. His team revealed that when normal cells were exposed to the TF-2 compound, nothing happened, but when cancer cells were exposed they underwent a process called “apoptosis programmed cell death” and were destroyed. The antioxidant compound TF-2 can also help abate inflammation as well.
Quench your thirst with After Moon Peaches
Black tea can also help prevent heart attack and stroke by saving arteries. In a test done by Dr. Joseph Vita, of the Boston University School of Medicine, he had some heart patients drink plain water, and the others black tea. After a month, the patients who drank the tea showed impaired blood vessel functioning had improved by 50%. In a related 10 year study done in the Netherlands, men who consumed 3 cups of black tea daily decreased their chances by 50% of dying from heart disease. More health benefits of black tea are, helps prevent tooth decay, can lower cholesterol.
More research must of course be done, but I’m not feeling so bad about having that second glass of tea, the caffeine content is much lower than a cup of coffee, and doesn’t give me the crash. So it is a summer of delicious iced teas for me this year, I hope you have the same summer of fun too.
This fine tea is made exclusively from a selected picking of plump spring buds.
One of the truly finest tea experiences available is from traditional style bud-set white tea, or Bai Hao Yin Zhen, or you may know it better as Silver Needles.
With hand picking done in early spring before the buds have had a chance to develop into leaves, there is a limited supply each year. Of course this tea demands a higher price, but the flavor, and the fresh experience is well worth it.
This tea has such remarkable and ethereal quality it was claimed as exclusive provenance of China’s royalty. Today we mere mortals can enjoy this pale silver brew, with it’s subtle softness, and tones of sweet melon.
In accordance with tradition, these bud-sets are hand picked and then open air dried only, in a shaded area with good circulation, such as a pavilion. In this way “greening” (chlorophyll development from exposure to sun) is prevented. The fresh tea is able to dry quickly without the additional need of heat applied.
Organic SIlver Needles from Da Cha Teas
Bai Hao Yin Zhen or Silver Needles is light in color, with a cast of soft greenish-grey. The tender buds are covered with soft downy hair, that makes for a velvety appearance to the tea. The brew is pale in color, with a delicate, and delicious flavor, which is reminiscent of ripe honeydew melon.
There is nothing quite like the fine flavor of this truly remarkable tea, one must simply have the expereince to know the scope of this rare tea. It is said of this tea from ancient chinese poetry “White like the clouds, green like a dream, pure like the snow”.
Da Cha Teas offers Organic Silver Needles. Try it for yourself, for a truly unforgettable tea experience.
Record breaking cold weather temperatures!
Stay Warm with Hot Tea!
This winter is calling out to all of us to stay warm, and drink hot fluids.
But did you know black tea is especially perfect for the wintertime? There is history here that since ancient days of tea baring caravans by horseback and Cutty Sark Clippers Ships navigating the high seas, black tea has been easy to transport and retain its freshness over a long season and for lengths of time.
The ancient tea sellers made black tea into compressed bricks as well as wrapped bushels of loose leaf and send it on long journeys, trading it with foreign merchants for other materials. In some cases, black tea has even been used as a kind of currency, and in some parts of Asia, a practice that persisted even into the 19th century. Black tea eventually made its way to the West, where today tea drinkers enjoy black tea in a variety of hot and iced specialty drinks.
Keeping each other warm.
Assam tea is a superior kind of tea grown in the Eastern Himalayas, where the Indian mountains meet China, Myanmar, and Bangladesh.
The Brahmaputra River – a large slowly meandering river that over millennia of spring and fall flooding has deposited a rich loam over the valley, dominates the Assam valley in Indian. The soil is a deep and sandy and the region has a very hot and steamy monsoon season, but equally important a relatively dry and cool winter. Perfect conditions for the Assam tea bush. 
Assam is a full-bodied tea with good malty flavor, which is good all day. This tea, most of which is grown at or near sea level, is known for its body, briskness, malty flavor, and strong, bright color. The warm and wet climate, cradles the tea leaves in moisture as they grow.
Assam teas, or blends containing Assam, are often enjoyed as “breakfast” teas, such as in our Organic Earl Grey blends or Organic Nicely Spiced Orange Black tea, or our Organic Classic Masala Chai.
Assam tealeaves that have wonderful antioxidant properties.
As your body functions, it constantly produces unstable molecules called free radicals that damage other cells in your body. Black tea antioxidants, like polyphenols, scavenge your body for these free radicals to neutralize them…and may even repair the damage they cause.
Recently, Da Cha Teas had the good fortune to visit the Island of Maui, Hawaii. With so much wilderness, and beauty we took our tea with us on our off road adventures. We experienced tea in the wild, and open road, and experienced up close some of Maui’s most extraordinary beauty. This trip was something special and something to remember for a long time. Come check out the videos, for a look at tea off road, in extraordinary places.
Organic Chinese Scented Jasmine Tea from Da Cha Teas
We enjoyed two different teas which enveloped us in scent and flavor as we were embraced by the beauty surrounding us. First we enjoyed Da Cha Teas uniquely fragrant and delicious Organic Chinese Jasmine (Fair Trade) tea. With leaving plans open to the wind, we were not sure were we might end up, and under what circumstances. This tea proved to be delightfully refreshing and a welcome thirst quencher even served hot. The tea itself ended up being a perfect choice and a totally enjoyable experience.
The next day, we awoke at 3:30 am to take a 2 and a half hour drive up to Haleakala Crater Summit. Once you reach the base at the entrance of Haleakala National Forest it is a 10,000ft climb. We felt confident in our rugged 4×4, as we caravanned with other vehicles which had converged in the dark for the long climb. As we continued after a while the very early light began to give shape to the darkness. Now every hair pin turn, and un-railed corner could be seen, as well as just how really very high 6,000, then 8, 000 and finally 10, 000 ft really is.
Sunrise Haleakala Crater
As a tribute to the beautiful Hawaiian Islands, Da Cha Teas offered to this very special occasion Organic White Hawaiian Blend. A most outstanding unique tea. Many who have tried this tea have immediately fallen in love with it and have been devoted fans since. This special tea we felt was a perfect and honorable tribute to serve at such a rare and unique and truly Hawaiian Place.
view of the crater as the sunrises
View from Haleakala Maui to Maunakea Big Island
