White Tea

I think by now most of us know about the cancer-fighting antioxidants in Green Tea. I certainly have it on a pedestal in our kitchen. Now it has company. My husband came home from work on his lunch break and said that he’d heard that White Tea had even more antioxidants than Green Tea. I couldn’t wait to get online and do a little research.

Right, he is.

On a particular BORING website - The American Society for Microbiology - the experts detailed (painfully) how White Tea, indeed, has been proven to be “more effective than green tea at inactivating bacterial viruses.”

Basically, Green Tea has amazing antioxidants…White Tea has even more.

Here’s more information from the same website:

“Past studies have shown that green tea stimulates the immune system to fight disease,” says Milton Schiffenbauer, Ph.D., a microbiologist and professor in the Department of Biology at Pace University’s Dyson College of Arts & Sciences and primary author of the research. “Our research shows White Tea Extract can actually destroy in vitro the organisms that cause disease. Study after study with tea extract proves that it has many healing properties. This is not an old wives tale, it’s a fact.”

I can’t give any sort of review of its taste, because I haven’t yet tried it. BUT, I’ll be getting out in a few hours, and I’ve already scheduled an appointment with the Kroger tea aisle. I’ll blog about the taste later. Even though I’ve gotten accustomed to it - thanks to lemon and honey - it would be hard for me to imagine White Tea tasting any worse than Green. In fact, I read that while Green tea has kind of a grassy taste, White tea doesn’t. Supposedly it’s light and even sweet. We’ll see!

Joi