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  Top 10 Tea Facts. Tea is drunk the world over, in fact it is second behind water as the most consumed beverage on the planet with a massive 165 million cups drank in the UK alone! That is the equivalent to over 20 Olympic sized swimming pools! We don’t expect you to try and drink your share, in fact moderation is key and a healthy portion is considered at 3 to 4 cups per day. Here at The UK loose Leaf Tea Company, we love tea and thought we would share our top ten facts about tea. We mentioned...

Do Tea Drinkers Live Longer? Are you looking for a way to stay healthy and live longer? Well, there are numerous healthy lifestyles that you can embrace to achieve your goal to live longer in fantastic health. Most times, the things we need to stay healthy are all around us, and we should not always depend on medication for our wellness. There are several herbs that you can incorporate into your daily lifestyles in addition to eating healthy. You should consider pouring yourself a cup of tea now and then. Association between habitual tea consumption life expectancy Several pieces of...

The Delicious and Luxurious Pink Tea Many people are quite curious when they first discover pink tea. Many questions follow, most especially, what does it taste like? You have had one type of chai or the other, those silky, spicy and milky types that are now common in the UK. But, have you tried another quite popular variant, Kashmiri chai? Also known as Gulabi chai or noon chai (pink tea and salt tea, respectively), this super appealing chai variant has a rosy hue, with a luxury feel to it, which is served only on special occasions by the Pakistanis. If...

Our Top Three Coffee Beans 2019 In this article we would like to tell you about our top three coffee beans sold by volume for 2019 : Brecon Mahogany Coffee Beans Brecon Mahogany Coffee Beans. A classic blend of arabica and robusta beans which have been dark roasted to create a cinder-toffee sweetness and a dusting of cocoa in the aftertaste. Strong but not overpowering, this is a highly distinctive, full-bodied coffee.Beans from Brazil, El Salvador and India all ethically sourced from the finest growers in the regions. Body 4/5. Sweetness 3/5. Acidity 2/5   Brecon Blend Coffee Beans Brecon Blend Coffee Beans. A...

Colombian Teas Colombia is known for many things like its coffees, but what most people don’t know Colombia for is its Colombian Teas. It is quite interesting to know that Colombia is a tea producing country. It started its tea production in 1950s when the country’s’ government started tea plantations after purchasing tea trees from Brazil. The plantation was done in three areas of the country as a means of diversifying agriculture. Though Colombia is not one of the foremost tea producing countries in the world, they have been able to develop a large variety of tea producing factories in...