Tea time!
I was browsing through information on my all-time favorite drink, Mandarine Orange Arizona Green Tea, and ran across this article that explains the benefits fo all natural tea over mass-marketed teas when it comes to health.
More ominously, many tea brands are tea in name only. Long ago, they ceased to be brewed from tea leaves. Powders and concentrates that aim to resemble tea are the base ingredient now. But not the biggest one. That role is reserved for corn syrup and caramel, rendering most iced teas on the market today brightly-packaged, much-hyped, and sadly overpriced sugary water. A bit of tea powder is typically thrown in to tap into the “tea is good for you” sentiment. After all, allusions to the many health benefits of tea are an important selling point for these products.
Jostling for your attention is a new product called Anteadote, an iced tea made with a progressive bottling process that extracts oxygen, the cause of food spoilage. With oxygen gone, so is the need to laden the product with chemicals or preservatives. The result is a product that is as pure as any tea freshly prepared.
I will probably still purchase a few bottles of Arizona Green tea, and some chai tea from Safeway. But for the most part, I will stick to making my own tea.
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