16/10/2007 - Tea, seemingly always in the headlines for its potential health benefits, could also offer an interesting source of food preservatives, Chinese researchers report.
Extracts from microbially-fermented Puer tea and Fuzhuan brick-tea have the potential to inhibit several food-borne bacteria, including Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium sporogenes.
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“With the trend of increasing use […]

Tea may help women strengthen their hip bones, preventing the risk of fractures commonly associated with osteoporosis, according to researchers.

The Australian study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, was conducted using 1,500 female volunteers, ages 70 to 85, over a five-year period, and tracked the effects of tea consumption on their bone density.
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FIRST it was property, then the stock exchange. Now, a rare tea is at the centre of the latest asset bubble in China, that looks set to burst.
Like fine wine and malt whisky, fermented Pu’er tea improves with age. While a cake of two-year-old Ye Sheng Gucha tea sells for around £20, the 13-year-old fetches […]

We will be adding more pu erh soon. Another organic pu erh, yiwu tea bricks, mao cha and some ban zhang pu erh.
Currently we only have the samples, might take some pictures soon and make the pu available on the webstore. Tea has not arrived yet at the moment.
On other note, we have been really […]