Buying Green Tea

Tips for Buying Green Tea

Green tea may be purchased in many places, from supermarkets, department stores, specialty stores, health stores and online.

Supermarket stocks are often mixed varieties so you will not really be sure of what you are getting for your money. Buying the tea from specialty stores or direct from the factories to ensure your purchase is the quality you desire is recommended.

Check the color of the tea. Generally, high quality tea is a very intense green color, with brown leaves indicating an inferior product.

Use your sense of smell to detect the freshness of the product. It should have a pleasant aroma like that of harvested hay.

The tea will be an inferior product if it rustles with dryness.

The price of green tea varies and it is recommended to buy tea that is neither too cheap nor too expensive. Once you are an experienced green tea drinker, you will appreciate the finer and more expensive varieties.

Be aware that tea oxidizes when exposed to the air and it loses most of it's active substances, so ensure that your purchases are sealed in airtight packaging.

Avoid green tea sold in tea bags for several reasons. The aroma of the brew is not as potent, mineral and vitamin content is often depleted, and the burden placed on the environment in disposing of the bags with paper tags is far more challenging than merely leaving tea leaves to decompose.

Use the above tips for buying green tea to ensure you get the best possible health benefits.

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