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How Much Caffeine is in a Cup of Tea?   Have you ever wondered how much caffeine is in a cup of tea? You might be surprised to learn that many other foods and beverages contain more caffeine than your favourite brew.  We all understand that caffeine is present in tea and coffee, but not everyone will be aware that products as diverse as chewing gum and weight-loss tablets have also got a caffeine content. In fact, you are probably consuming much more caffeine than you realise.  How much caffeine is in a cup of tea or coffee? The first,...

How Tea is Made. From Plant to Cup. A very simplified view of how tea is made:  While the simple act of brewing and making a cup of tea in the comfort of your own kitchen is relatively quick, how tea is made is a bit more complicated. When the tea has processed the leaves from the Camellia Sinensis, or the tea plant, are then dried to undergo the change from the succulent, green plant into the dried leaves that we all know and use for brewing tea.   Native to Southern Asia, the Camellia sinensis is a species of small...

Find Your Perfect Tea to Match Your Taste Here at The UK Loose Leaf Tea Company, we understand how important it is to find the perfect tea to match your taste, and with such an extensive range of teas available for direct delivery to your door, we also know this can be a bit of a minefield so we have broken it down into various tea types to help. Depending on your taste, there is certainly a tea that matches your palette! It’s a simple case of finding the right one, and we can help you with that.  Black Tea...

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  What is Green Tea?  Green tea is a type of tea made from Camellia Sinensis leaves, The leaf’s buds have not gone through the same process, the oxidisation process as some of the other tea leaf’s do, hence why it has a more beneficial effect. Green tea comes from China, but now the production and manufacture of these tea leaves go throughout 20 other countries as far as East Asia.  Different types of tea, differ accordingly to how they are processed, how they grow and the conditions they are grown in.  The Health Benefits associated with Drinking Green Tea...