We have a great new luxury tea for all Silver Leaf Tea Enthusiasts that was just added a few minutes ago: Chocolate Orange Tea. This tea is an exotic blend of fine India black tea, chocolate chips, orange peels, and natural chocolate and orange flavors. If you love our Chocolate tea or our Orange tea you will love the combination of the two! Buy it now while it is still available!



Chocolate Orange Tea:

Silver Leaf Tea Company Chocolate Orange Tea

Hello Silver Leaf Tea Enthusiasts,



We have a great new luxury tea for all Silver Leaf Tea Enthusiasts that was just added a few minutes ago: Raspberry Cream Tea. This tea is an exotic blend of India black tea, safflowers, raspberry leaves, and natural raspberry and cream flavoring. Many people love our Raspberry tea and if you normally add a little cream to our Raspberry tea you have just found the perfect blend for your fine taste! Buy it now while it is still
available!

Raspberry Cream Tea

We have three new teas available this week at Silver Leaf Tea Company!



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Honey Tea: This tea is an exotic blend of India black tea and real honey. If you enjoy putting honey or sugar in your tea you will enjoy having natural honey blended in your tea from the start! It will make it easier on you to get the perfect honey taste each time without having to measure or mix! Buy it now while it is still available!



Honey Tea: http://www.silverleaftea.com/honey-tea-p-467.html



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White Blossom Earl Grey Tea: This tea is an exotic blend of luxury Bai Mu Dan white tea, blue mallow blossoms and fine bergamot flavor. This blend is a favorite for Earl Grey drinkers.



White Blossom Earl Grey Tea: http://www.silverleaftea.com/white-blossom-earl-grey-p-465.html



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Strawberry Tea. This tea is a natural India Black tea with real strawberry pieces and real strawberry leaves. The natural strawberry flavor with this black tea makes for a fine tea. Those of you that enjoy our other naturally flavored teas will REALLY enjoy this new tea!



Strawberry Tea: http://www.silverleaftea.com/strawberry-tea-p-462.html

There are many tales about how the Camellia sinensis bush was discovered and used to make the drink we all know as “tea.” Most of these myths and tales are very interesting myths and tales but they have no historical basis. For example, in Buddhism it is commonly told that the founder of the Zen School of Buddhism was meditating in front of a large structured wall for nearly nine full years and he had mistakenly fell asleep. When he awoke and realized he had fallen asleep he felt morally and spiritually weak and in his anger he cut off his eyelids. His eyelids distinctly dropped into the ground, took root as if they were made for planting, and grew into full and luxurious Camellia sinensis plants. He then took the tea and made a beverage of it.



The most commonly told myth about the discovery of tea is a Chinese legend. This is the most probable of the many legends and myths out there surrounding the discovery of tea. The Chinese legend myth explains that the Emperor of China and famed inventor of Chinese medicine and Chinese agriculture, Shennong, was purifying his water by boiling it. This was his purification process and ancient custom. This particular time he was purifying his water the wind was blowing ferociously and it blew tea leaves from a nearby Camellia sinensis bush into his now boiling water. He noticed the water had a new aroma and that it had changed color. The esteemed Emperor of China was always testing new things and tested the newly discovered tea and was refreshed and thoroughly enjoyed the newfound tea. In his many tests Emperor Shennong had found that Camellia sinensis (tea) reveresed many toxic potions and mixtures and that Camellia sinensis (tea) was a universal medicine with thousands of applications.



While we may never completely know how Camellia sinensis (tea) was discovered, we should be happy that it was and enjoy the many variations of Camellia sinensis (tea) and the thousands of benefits of the Camellia sinensis (tea) we so richly enjoy today!

Here are a few new reviews from our great customers.

Masala Chai Tea Bags (20 Teabags)

The aroma is deep and earthy. You can really smell and taste all the wonderful spices. If you add a little milk, this tea is really rich and comforting. This is definitely the best Chai Tea I’ve ever purchased.

Date Added: 03/02/2008 by CF

Organic English Breakfast

I am sipping this in iced tea form as I type this! It is absolutely
delicious and highly recommended.

Date Added: 03/01/2008 by JD

A French study tested over 4000 women (with an average age of a whopping 79 years old). 44% of the the women that did not drink tea had plaque in their blood vessels. For those that drank more than three cups of tea daily only 33.7% had plaque in their blood vessels.



The conclusion was that women who drank large amounts of tea reduced their risks of cardiovascular disease due to their chances of getting clogged blood vessels being limited. They did not specify a certain type of tea that had more or less effect on the blood vessels, but all tea has some ability to dissolve plaque and other fatty substances.

10.10.07, 12:00 AM ET - Forbes

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 10 (HealthDay News) — New Australian research suggests that having a cuppa (tea, that is) may help strengthen older women’s hips.



“This study suggests that drinking tea in moderation can actually benefit your bones,” said lead researcher Amanda Devine, a senior lecturer in the nutrition program at the School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Science, Edith Cowan University, and adjunct senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia’s School of Medicine and Pharmacology, in Perth.



“Those who drank tea in the study had a higher bone density over the four years that they were studied,” she said. “These women lost less bone than those who did not drink tea. More than three-quarters of the women drank tea daily, and they consumed on average about three cups per day.”



Outside experts called the findings intriguing but still preliminary.



“Some tea may be potentially helpful,” said Paul Brandt, an associate professor of neuroscience and experimental therapeutics at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. “One or two cups of tea a day probably couldn’t hurt, but I wouldn’t say that it absolutely will help. It’s possible that it could prevent some loss.”



Prior research has suggested that drinking tea may improve bone mineral density in people at risk for osteoporosis, but the findings are not conclusive. One study found that drinking green tea might help ease the inflammation and pain of rheumatoid arthritis.



Fractures, especially hip fractures associated with osteoporosis, are a major source of disability in postmenopausal women. Osteoporosis causes the bones to become fragile and more likely to break. Although it primarily affects older women, osteoporosis can affect others as well.



The new study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, involved 1,500 elderly (70 to 85 years old) Australian women who participated in a five-year trial of the effect of calcium supplementation on osteoporotic hip fracture.



Information on tea consumption was collected at the beginning of the study for 275 participants, and all participants filled out a beverage consumption questionnaire at the end of the trial.



Bone mineral density at the hip was measured at years 1 and 5.



By the end of the study, bone mineral density at the hip was 2.8 percent greater in tea drinkers than in non-tea drinkers, the researchers found.



Over four years, tea drinkers lost an average of only 1.6 percent of their total hip bone mineral density, while non-tea drinkers lost 4 percent — consistent with previous studies.



There was, however, no relationship between the amount of tea consumed and bone gains, which raises some questions about the mechanisms which might be responsible for the effect.



“We didn’t see a dose-response to tea drinking — that is, if you drank more tea, then your bones were even better,” Devine said. “The lack of relationship may be due to the small numbers of tea drinkers in each group, once we started examining these data. When we just look at the whole group, we have more power to see a difference.”



The authors speculated that certain components of tea, such as antioxidant flavonoids, might account for the benefit seen.



Flavonoids “have been shown to have a stimulatory effect on new cells that build bone in cell line studies,” Devine explained. “Also, the weak estrogenic [effect] of phytoestrogens found in tea may be beneficial especially to older women whose levels of endogenous estrogen is low. Also, the addition of milk to tea will add calcium to the diet, which is also needed for healthy bones.”

Ruairi O’Kane - From The Sunday Times

May 27, 2007

GRANDMOTHER did know best. Scientists have established that tea left to brew in a pot is better for your health.

The traditional way of making a cuppa releases more cancer-fighting chemicals than simply dunking a tea bag in a mug of boiling water.



Researchers at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen found that the concentration of antioxidants, which soak up damaging free radicals linked to cancer and heart disease, reaches its peak after five minutes’ brewing in a pot.



The scientists tested levels of polyphenols antioxidants naturally occurring in plants in the blood of volunteers who drank black tea brewed for up to 10 minutes.



They found that blood antioxidant levels were 60% higher among the volunteers who drank tea that had been brewed for five minutes than those who consumed a one-minute infusion. The difference between a three and five-minute brew was 30%.



Within an hour of drinking the five-minute infusion, the level of antioxidants in volunteers’ bloodstreams rose by up to 45%.



Leaving tea to brew for longer than five minutes yielded no extra health benefits. The researchers also found that adding milk to a cuppa had no effect on its cancer-fighting properties.



“We have established that the length of time you infuse the tea before you drink it is important,” said Garry Duthie, professor of molecular nutrition at the Rowett Research Institute and co-author of the study, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. “These days, people tend to dunk the tea bag, so they are consuming fewer of these potentially beneficial chemicals than they did in the past.”



Research published earlier this year in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention suggested that drinking two cups of tea a day could cut the risk of developing skin cancer by up to 65%.



A review of published studies into the benefits of drinking tea, conducted by public health nutritionists at King’s College London and published last year, concluded that drinking three or four cups a day could cut the risk of suffering a heart attack. The study also suggested that drinking tea could strengthen bones and protect against tooth decay.



Meanwhile, scientists at Harvard medical school have concluded that drinking tea can reduce the risk of four of the major health problems: stroke, heart failure, cancer and diabetes.



Britain is the world’s second biggest consumer of tea, beaten only by the Republic of Ireland. Each day Britons drink 165m cups. However, consumption has declined as more people have switched to coffee.



“This research proves your old daily cuppa is doing you a power of good,” said Bill Gorman, executive chairman of the UK Tea Council.



“The longer you brew, the more value you are going to get. If you are a 40-second dunker you will get some value but not as much if you brew for four or five minutes.”



Ed Yong, Cancer Research UK’s health information officer, said: “Until more research is done, we would advise people simply to enjoy drinking tea.”

We welcome posts from Tea Rooms around the world. We supply a wide variety of Tea Rooms and would enjoy your postings about your success and how your customers are enjoying our teas. Let us know your Tea Room’s name, address, and phone number and we will list it on our site!

As some of you may know SilverLeafTea.com is under new ownership. We are taking the original mission of providing the world with exotic and luxury teas from around the world even further with even more new and rare teas coming in the next few months! We greatly appreciate our customer’s comments and suggestions. We want to know what kind of teas you are searching for. We have over 800 teas immediately available and almost every tea known to man available through our international contacts.



We are also beginning to add content to the site on all subjects relating to teas: tea history, tea manners, tea types, tea dictionary, etc. Our goal is to make SilverLeafTea.com your one stop for all your tea related activities, whether it be to purchase some exotic tea at a low price or to learn more about a tea subject, we are your source on the internet!



Ryan Hicks

CEO, SilverLeafTea.com