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Preparation of Cold Green Tea: From Cold Infusion to Ice Infusion As summer approaches, so does the season of cold tea, a way to enjoy all the benefits of our favorite drink, which becomes refreshing and thirst-quenching, ideal for the hottest days of the year. In this article, we will see how to prepare cold green tea at home using different methods that preserve its flavor and properties. You can choose your favorite tea, add ingredients as you like, and make a completely natural and genuine cold green tea, without added sugars or preservatives. Cold Green Tea: The Best Methods to Prepare ..

Draining cold herbal teas: how to make them with cold maceration Cold Brew Summer is around the corner, but we don't want to give up the taste and benefits of herbal tea. The perfect solution is to use excellent cold draining herbal teas. What could be better than a refreshing drink that also helps eliminate toxins? A draining cold herbal tea can help us eliminate excess fluids and feel better, as it is an excellent remedy to promote the elimination of excess fluids and counteract water retention. Let's not forget about the dreaded 'swimsuit test' that is looming and that, let's say it, many..

How to make cold brew tea by "recycling" our winter tea supplies As the warm season approaches, the consumption of tea and herbal teas decreases, and we find ourselves with a pantry full of many teas and herbal teas that we don't feel like drinking and that will reappear in the fall. To easily consume them and not carry over winter residues, to always experiment with new methods and frontiers, we recommend having fun trying the COLD BREW method with the teas and herbal teas you still have in your pantry. Cold Brew means cold maceration The Cold Brew method for tea and cold herbal teas consi..

Calendula herbal tea and oil: recipe Celebrate spring with homemade calendula oil made from fresh flowers One of the first plants to bloom in spring is definitely the calendula. It's easy to see fields covered with orange flowers that open in the morning and close in the evening. You have surely thought about picking these wonderful flowers and making a delicious herbal tea or the famous calendula oil. In this article, we reveal our recipes so you can prepare them comfortably at your home. What you need and how to proceed? The calendula is a plant that grows throughout the Medi..

Tea and caffeine, or theine? Let's discover the questions and answers about tea and caffeine together. One of the questions that we are asked most often by the customers of our online tea shop are: Does tea contain caffeine and how much caffeine does this tea contain? Or: which teas have more or less caffeine? Is it true that green tea contains less caffeine than black tea? Caffeine and theine are the same molecule Preliminary note: caffeine and theine are the same molecule. When tea (P.S. have you ever wondered what is the correct way to write the word tea? Read it in our new article!) ..

If we think about it, tea hides a paradox within itself: we all associate it with a relaxing moment, a moment in which each of us takes a break to savor its pleasant and beneficial infusion. When we think of tea, we think of a relaxed atmosphere. Tea and caffeine Yet, both black and to a lesser extent green tea contain caffeine, a stimulating alkaloid that tones our body and stimulates neuronal synapses, as well as being a molecule that promotes diuresis (that's why green tea is an excellent diuretic!) To support all this, there is also history: tea was in fact imported to Japan thanks to Bu..

The names and origins of mint The mentha viridis, commonly known as "Roman mint", is a particular variety of mint, characterized by long serrated leaves and lance-shaped stems with a reddish color. Even the blooms produced by this type of mint are different from other varieties such as peppermint, showing spike-shaped flowers with a purplish hue. Widely used by both the Greeks and the Romans, sweet mint is still highly appreciated today in Europe, especially among the Anglo-Saxon peoples, where it is widely used in the preparation of sweet recipes and delicious healthy herbal teas. In Cuba, i..

Oleolites are oils enriched with active ingredients from certain plants (herbs, flowers, spices, seeds...). The oleolite is obtained by macerating these drugs in a suitable oily vehicle. The substance is placed inside a dark glass container and then completely covered with oil. The substance/solvent ratio is very variable, depending on the type of plant, whether it is fresh or dry, and the intended use of the oleolite. Personally, I really like the daily use of oleolites in cooking. Not only do they give a particular flavor to our dishes, but they transform them into authentic medicines! The o..

You may have heard this word: oolong or wu long. It indicates a category of tea that falls between green and black according to a principle of leaf oxidation. Name Black Oolong Green and white Percentage of leaf oxidation 100%-60% 60%-15% 15%-0% Depending on how oxidized the leaves are, the distinction of tea families that we all know occurs. Its name means black dragon, a direct reference to the shape of some oolongs. In the West, they are known because the media often present them as slimming teas. We will only say that there a..

Many names, one race: henna. Depending on the country, but very often depending on the region within the same country, the natural dye, the subject of this article, can change its name. In the Arab world, for example, it is known as "henna", while in Pakistan and India with the term "mehndi". In the Barcelona area, as in all of Catalonia, women associate the word alhena with natural coloring that will give more health to their hair. The Lawsonia inermis is a plant whose leaves are collected, dried, ground to a powder that is used for hair or tattoos. However, before immersing yourself in the ..

Our test review continues to describe more accurately, with accompanying photos, what color your hair will become exactly once you use the brown henna. Too often, natural henna is purchased and one is disappointed or not used at all for fear of making a mistake, because it is a widely held opinion that "The final color of henna is not always the same" Well, we are here to clarify better about hair and ideas on what color your hair will become, depending on your original color. Following are some illustrative photos that will truthfully show (we have personally tried it on ourselves and acqua..

Natural henna seems to be gaining more and more popularity in Italy as well. These are natural dyes that not only allow you to color your hair but also nourish and preserve its volume. Nothing to do with supermarket dyes that, beyond some immediate nice results and compliments from acquaintances met on the street, over time tend to weaken the scalp and ruin the vigor and shine of our hair. Therefore, purchasing pure and high-quality henna is the first step we can take to give ourselves healthy hair as we grow. This is often an underestimated issue by teenagers who often use aggressive dyes to..

If the English have imposed on Europe the taste for black tea, which they drink sweetened with a cloud of milk, green tea that has been consumed in China for five thousand years remains the drink of the vast majority of the peoples of Asia and the Maghreb. The best green tea gardens are found in mainland China, Formosa, and Japan. In China, the preparation of this tea has been more or less the same for immemorial time. In artisanal factories of cooperatives, the tea is roasted for less than a minute in large tanks, in order to destroy the enzymes of the leaves that could alter the quality of t..

Gentler winds, lighter and more transparent air, harmonious undulations give the gardens of Ceylon a more cheerful appearance. In plantations that sometimes do not exceed twenty hectares, a more human dimension is discovered. Most of the plantations are located in the southwest of the island. The most beautiful gardens, as always, are found between 1000 and 2500 meters, on the east and west slopes of the high plateaus. Depending on the orientation, they are influenced by one monsoon or the other; so on the east side, the best harvest is obtained from the end of June to the end of August, and o..