This is another flavored black tea suggested by a customer. Butter Truffle Black Tea. It is reminiscent of
a butter cookie with a hint of orange. I'm having a cup right now and
enjoying the aroma and the taste which complement each other to heighten
the total experience. Thank you Leslie for the recommendation.
Ingredients: black tea, pistachios, cumin, sliced almonds, coriander, pink peppercorns, flavoring
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Black Tea may lower blood sugar
A good customer came in to the shop and we were discussing teas and she said that black tea made her feel sick. We talked a little more and then I went online to see if I could find a potential reason and found the article and the link below. It makes a lot of sense from other complaints I have received regarding black teas. Usually these are people drinking their black tea black with no sugar or milk and often on an empty stomach.
Wanted to share the information in case this has been your experience. Always learning more about tea.
WebMD News Archive
July 30, 2009 -- Black tea contains a substance that mimics type 2 diabetes drugs Precose and Glyset.
Black tea contains more of the substance, a polysaccharide compound, than either green or oolong tea, report Haixia Chen and colleagues of Tianjin University, China.
Coarse tea has been used as a diabetes treatment in China and Japan. It's known that tea polysaccharides reduce blood sugar.
Now Chen and colleagues show that tea polysaccharides inhibit an enzyme called alpha-glucosidase, which turns starch into glucose. The diabetes drugs Precose and Glyset work by inhibiting this enzyme.
"Many efforts have been made to search for effective glucose inhibitors from natural materials," Chen says in a news release. "There is a potential for exploitation of black tea polysaccharide in managing diabetes."
It's not clear whether simply drinking black tea would help. Chen's team used chemical extraction methods -- not simple brewing -- to derive the polysaccharides from tea they purchased at local markets.
Chen and colleagues report their findings in the current issue of the Journal of Food Science.
http://www.webmd.com/diabetes/
Wanted to share the information in case this has been your experience. Always learning more about tea.
Black Tea May Lower Blood Sugar
Substance in Black Tea Mimics Diabetes Drugs
By
Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by
Brunilda Nazario, MD
July 30, 2009 -- Black tea contains a substance that mimics type 2 diabetes drugs Precose and Glyset.
Black tea contains more of the substance, a polysaccharide compound, than either green or oolong tea, report Haixia Chen and colleagues of Tianjin University, China.
Coarse tea has been used as a diabetes treatment in China and Japan. It's known that tea polysaccharides reduce blood sugar.
Now Chen and colleagues show that tea polysaccharides inhibit an enzyme called alpha-glucosidase, which turns starch into glucose. The diabetes drugs Precose and Glyset work by inhibiting this enzyme.
"Many efforts have been made to search for effective glucose inhibitors from natural materials," Chen says in a news release. "There is a potential for exploitation of black tea polysaccharide in managing diabetes."
It's not clear whether simply drinking black tea would help. Chen's team used chemical extraction methods -- not simple brewing -- to derive the polysaccharides from tea they purchased at local markets.
Chen and colleagues report their findings in the current issue of the Journal of Food Science.
http://www.webmd.com/diabetes/
New addition to our Flavored Black Tea offerings! Kentucky Bourbon Black Tea
Kentucky Bourbon Black Tea... what an amazing flavor. The flavors and aromas of Kentucky's best-known beverage infused into a
custom blend of handpicked Chinese and Indian teas. Vanilla and caramel
notes with a hint of char from the bourbon barrel.
This tea is excellent hot and with nothing added. Add a little honey and you have another experience all together. Then chill it again with a bit of honey it becomes addictive.
Hats off to Bruce Richardson for bringing this excellent tea to market!!
This tea is excellent hot and with nothing added. Add a little honey and you have another experience all together. Then chill it again with a bit of honey it becomes addictive.
Hats off to Bruce Richardson for bringing this excellent tea to market!!
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