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First of all, I only drink organic tea and I make all my tea with alkalized water. The reason I only drink organic tea, although I don’t eat only organic food is this. If I buy a non-organic fruit or vegetable, I can wash it off with special cleaners to remove most pesticides, wax etc. However with tea, whatever I “wash” off, I am drinking.
Non-organic teas can be sprayed up to fifteen times with various pesticides and some studies have shown the run-off from these fields has killed animals. If it kills animals, I don’t think it’s so great for me. As for the alkaline water, besides improving the taste, it helps to neutralize acids, remove toxins and acts as a conductor of electrochemical activity from cell to cell.
Fortunately, I have a portable water alkalizer for home and on the go, which has been approved by the FDA as a medical device, and my favorite place to drink tea, The Path of Tea, only serves certified organic teas brewed with alkalized water. So it’s easy for me to have my tea exactly the way I like it.
My favorite white tea is Moonlight White. It is a Rishi tea that is a combination of two tea leaves and a bud from Yunnan’s Dah Yeh tree.
I brew the tea with 175 degree water and steep it for exactly 3 minutes. Moonlight White has a sweet taste and makes me think of the smooth shadow of an English Breakfast if you removed all harshness, strength, and edge. In other words, as silly as it sounds, if you took a black tea, magically morphed it into a white tea and added a dash of sweet honeysuckle, that’s how Moonlight white tastes to me.
So far, I have no evidence that it tastes like that to anyone else.
Little more about white tea: it is the least processed of all types of tea. It has the smallest amount of caffeine, roughly 5 milligrams per cup. A cup of coffee has 185 milligrams of caffeine. White tea is not fired or rolled like other teas and has very high concentrations of antioxidant polyphenols.
Antioxidant polyphenols are thought to be instrumental in combating a syndrome that causes some neurodegenerative diseases as well as some cardiovascular diseases. More especially, the tea polyphenol has been shown to reduce important markers for inflammatory diseases. Studies in mice, rats and hamsters have shown tea consumption protects against SEVERAL types of cancers and a preventative effect against atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, high blood cholesterol concentrations and high blood pressure.
There is currently a phase 1 clinical trial being conducted right up the street from me at MD Anderson Cancer Center examining the safety and possible efficacy of consuming specific amounts of tea each day.
White teas come from silvery-white sprouts and leaves that are hand harvested only once a year in early spring. The withering process results in lots of silver-white hairs. These are some of the things contributing to it being called white tea.
So…delicious, caffeine content negligible, and super good for me…..can’t beat it as a beverage and a lifestyle.
Yum, Moonlight White.
