Refresh your home with used tea leaves
Did you know that you can use old, spent tea leaves to refresh your home?
Well, now you do.
—Mellow Monk
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Labels: green tea, green tea basics
posted by Mellow Monk @ 4:13 AM
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Your site is very interesting!
I have a question about why my green tea is brown. I brew my loose green tea in an Braun coffee maker and put the tea leaves in the filter. I use "china green tea" from shanghai tiantan international trading. It also says ever-green on the cover.
I think that the tea leaves look like the picture on this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Maojian.jpg
Hi Deborah,
Thanks for your question!
The reason your green tea is brewing brown is probably that your tea is slightly fermented. This is a key difference between Chinese and Japanese green tea: most Chinese greens are slightly fermented (hence the brown infusion) whereas Japanese green teas -- including ours -- are completely unfermented. This is why Japanese greens produce a green infusion and why they are higher in EGCG and other antioxidants.
Paul Kotta
Mellow Monk's Green Teas
Thanks Paul.
Your answer makes me want to explore more green teas. I will definitely pick up some Japanese teas.
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