Tea Maestro Bruce Richardson shares the latest tea and health benefits as reported at the Sixth International Scientific Symposium on Tea and Human Health.
What are the Health Benefits of Tea?
Is Bottled Tea Actually Healthy?
Are all grocery store green teas created equal? Bruce Richardson explains why homemade green tea can be healthier and less expensive than bottled teas.
COVID-19 Locked Down the Tea Gardens in Assam. Then The Floods Came.
The 800 tea gardens of Assam have experienced one of their most challenging growing seasons in history this year. At the outbreak of the COVID-19, the government ordered the shutdown of all tea plucking, fertilizing, and pest management activities for three weeks. Plucking tea in Assam, India. Photo by Bruce Richardson That closure slowed the…
Which Countries Ship the Most Tea to the United States?
Where does America get most of its tea? Statistics just released from the Tea Association of the United States indicate that the major tea producing countries continue their usual rankings in tonnage exported to the U.S.A through the first four months of this year. Tea grown in the shadow of Mt Fuji, Japan. Photo by…
Is There Plastic in My Cup of Tea?
A news report about plastic particles leaching from tea sachets and into teacups has been spreading online and through news publications across Canada, England, and the United States since the end of September when a research study from Montreal’s McGill University was published. The small scale study showed plastic teabags released as much as 60…
Kagoshima – Japan’s Second Largest Tea Growing Prefecture
As America's demand for Japanese green tea exploded in the 1880s, large commercial tea gardens were planted further south in Kagoshima Prefecture