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Recipe: Iced Green Tea, Black Tea and Lemonade – My Version Of A Half And Half

My spouse, does not like green tea. The horror! But she has been trying to drink more iced tea (mostly black) and less Diet Coke. She asked for me to brew her a half and half (half iced black tea and half lemonade). What I actually did was more like a third, a third and a third instead of the half and half. I did it to try to get her the benefits of green tea without the flavor. It worked, she loves my “half and half”. Here is my recipe. Using a gallon jar, I fill it 2/3 with water. I empty that water into the pot on the stove and heat the water to 180 degrees. While it is heating, I fill the gallon jar with 1/3 water and add 1 and 1/2 packet of Crystal Light Pure lemonade mix (15 calories per packet, all natural ingredients). I [...]

How To Incorporate Green Tea In Your Diet If You Don’t Like Green Tea

It is hard to believe, but there are some people out there who do not like drinking green tea. My wife is one of them. With all the health benefits of consuming green tea, it is a shame everyone does not like to drink it. Fortunately there are ways to incorporate healthy green tea in your diet without even knowing, or tasting, it. The best way to do this is to buy some Matcha powder. Matcha, is finely ground green tea leaves. It is a green powder that you can make a special brew of tea from. When making Match green tea difference between green tea brewed from tea leaves and Matcha is that you consume the entire leaf when drinking Matcha. Let me explain. With Matcha, ground leaves are mixed with water or milk and drunk. Therefore you are consuming the leaves, not just the tea that is brewed [...]

Review Of The Kirkland Brand Green Tea Bags

Kirkland green tea will change many peoples opinion of bagged green tea. A green tea snob may tell you the ONLY way to brew green tea (and hence Iced Green Tea) is to use loose leaf tea. While I will admit that many bagged green teas are far inferior to true loose leaf tea, there are a few bagged teas that hold their own and in some cases surpass their loose leafed brethren. One such bagged tea is surprisingly one of the least expensive around. It is the green tea sold under the Kirkland brand. Kirkland is the Costco generic brand. Right about now you are probably thinking this guy is crazy, there is no way a Kirkland brand can taste as good as loose leaf brewed green tea, not at that price anyway. Well, trust me, the Kirkland green tea is great tea. Read 148 more reviews of Kirkland [...]

Green Tea Leaves Make Great Plant Food

Tea leaves, in addition to making a great tasting beverage, have many other uses. Used tea leaves have been used as deodorizers, carpet cleaners, window cleaners and mouthwash. Used tea leaves are especially popular as plant fertilizer. In case you were wondering, there is good reason for this. Apparently used tea leaves contain all the big three nutrients, N-P-K, as well as some trace minerals that plants need to thrive. Tea leaves are acidic and acid loving plants, like tomato plants and roses love to have used tea leaves sprinkled around their base like a mulch. For best results, you should sprinkle use tea leaves around plants and gently scratch them into the soil surface. If you are not this precise of a gardener, you can always put your teal leaves in a compost pile and reap their benefits at a later time when you use the composted soil.

How To Add Flavor To Your Iced Green Tea

There are a lot of recipes for flavored green tea available on the internet. Some are more involved than others. I prefer the acronym KISS (keep it simple stupid) when flavoring my iced green tea. What I mean by that is that I like to infuse the flavors into the green tea, rather than forcing them in or adding strange ingredients. Let me explain. Many fruits and herbs can be used to flavor iced tea. Peaches, mango, strawberries and mint are a few examples. In order to use fruits and herbs to flavor your tea you do not need juice or extract, you often just need the fruit. What I do is when I brew green tea to make Iced green tea I brew about two quarts of tea at a time. Once brewed these two quarts go into the refrigerator for enjoyment later that day and beyond. If I [...]

Review Of Yamamotoyama Iced Green Tea – Powdered Leaf Iced Green Tea

If you are like me, there are times when traveling light is important. Maybe its a hike at a local park or a business flight to New York. If you want good iced green tea to take with you and drink at your destination, that will not weigh you down along the way than Yamamotoyama Iced Green Tea might be just what your looking for. Yamamotoyama Iced Green Tea is a powdered leaf green tea that when mixed with cold water makes an authentic tasting iced green tea. Yamamotoyama Iced Tea is not like many of the commercial powdered tea mixes you find in the grocery store. First, it is made from real green tea leaves that are finely ground. It is not a tea extract or a tea flavoring only 100% Sencha green tea leaves.. Second, it is unsweetened. Third, and maybe most importantly it is probably the most [...]

Green Tea Fights Bad Breath

Green tea, whether iced or hot, has a multitude of health benefits. According to a recent study, you can add fighting bad breath to that list of benefits. The study from Israel`s Institute of Technology revealed that antioxidants found in the tea, called polyphenols, fight a number of compounds in the mouth that can lead to bad breath, tooth decay and oral cancer. The study focused on the particular polyphenol, epigallocatechin 3 gallate (EGCG), which is thought to have benefits such as preventing cancer, warding off heart disease and possibly Parkinson’s and Alzheimers. The authors of the study noted that “Oral cavity, oxidative stress and inflammation consequent to cigarettes deleterious compounds may be reduced in the presence of green tea polyphenols”. The study went on to report that, “Tea polyphenols possess antiviral properties, believed to help in protection from influenza. Additionally green tea polyphenols can abolish halitosis through modification of [...]

Sun Brewed Iced Green Tea

If you really wan to go “green” with your iced green tea then you can use solar power to make a batch of delicious iced tea. All kidding aside, not only is this a green way to do it, it may impart health benefits lost in traditional heat brewing. By not subjecting the antioxidants in the tea leaves to extreme heat, some people believe that you are getting a set of better, or at least different benefits from cold brewed or sun brewed tea. Regardless of the difference in health properties of sun brewed tea, the taste is excellent and the prep is very hands off easy (though a bit more time consuming) Here is what you do: Fill 1/2 gallon class container with cool water to about an inch from the top. Inside suspend five green tea bags or the equivalent amount of loose leaves in a tea ball [...]

Puffy Eyes? Passing An Olympic Drug Test? Other Uses For Green Tea.

Iced green tea tastes great and is good for you. That we know. There are many other uses for natures perfect leaf. Here are two: Use caffeinated green tea bags to reduce puffiness under your eyes. Soak green tea bags in hot water for a few minutes and let them cool to room temperature but do not squeeze the liquid out. After they have cooled, place them on your closed eyes for several minutes. The caffeine will increase circulation and the antioxidants have anti-wrinkle effects. Use iced green tea to pass an Olympic doping test. A recent British study showed green tea might hide testosterone from the standard test used to identify it. In the laboratory, scientists were able to lower testosterone readings by introducing compounds found in green tea. Doping officials are considering taking this into account when looking at random test results. ** This site does not condone [...]

The Difference Between Iced Green Tea And Iced Black Tea

With names like Green Tea and Black Tea, it would be understandable for anyone to think that they are completely different leaves. The truth is that green tea and black tea come from the same plant, Camellia Sinensis, to take it a step further they are the same leaves from the same plant. So what is it that makes green tea and black tea so different? The difference comes from the way the leaves are treated after harvest. This treatment alters the taste, appearance and properties of the tea leaves. Green tea is processed after harvest by briefly steaming the harvested leaves, this softens them and stops fermentation, it also stops them from changing color, hence the green color of the tea. . After the initial steaming, the leaves are spread out and “fired” (a process of drying by hot air or frying in a wok) until they are crisp. [...]