Veggies and Treats for the day...

After making a nice and healthy meal today, I treated myself to some homemade chocolate chip scones (nuggets) and a few cups of Irish Whiskey (non-alcoholic) Cream Tea.

Fusion Green and White Tea from STASH - Trying out the tea bags once again.

My current Tea of choice is by STASH - Fusion Green and White Tea. For the past year, I've been either enjoying cups of tea in a tea store, or purchasing the tea (loose leaf) and making my own at home.

Well after my local tea store closed, I've been searching sites on new teas to try. As much as I love Tea.......Tea can be expensive. So I've decided to go back to purchasing teas in the grocery stores and came across STASH. See my comments below:

I did a tea review at the STASH site, and I cut and paste it into my blog to share here as well. If you haven't tried STASH, I highly recommend it. http://www.stashtea.com/default.aspx

Product: Fusion Green & White Tea by

Submitted at: Stash Tea Company

What a way to pick me up!

by CillaLuv4T from California on 6/4/2010

Tea Body:

Medium

Tea Flavor:

Vegetal

Pros:

Unique Flavor Profile

Best Uses:

Anytime

Describe Yourself:

Tea Enthusiast

I had gotten away from tea in a tea bag, but when I was in the store and saw that Stash had a green and white tea fusion, I thought I had to try it. I'm glad I did. I am now drinking throughout the day. I first steep it hot, then pour it over ice and sip and drink it all through the day at work and even in the evenings. I love the taste, and now look forward to purchasing the loose leaf to try it out as well.

Thanks

= Here's some information about the Green and White Tea =

Stash Fusion Green and White Tea

For our Fusion Tea we begin with Mutan White (or White Peony) which is made from the leaves of the "Dai Bai" or "Big White" bush and mixed with buds from the "Shui Hsien" or "Water Sprite" tea plant. The leaves have silver tips and are predominantly greenish-brown in color and very flat. The buds are lustrous, soft and silvery. Its name, a literal translation from the Chinese, probably comes from the very pale color of its liquor.

We then blend this White tea with Sencha Green tea from Japan, Osmanthus Green tea from China, Assam Green tea from India, Darjeeling Green tea from India, and Organic Green Tea from Sri Lanka. The resulting tea is pale gold in the cup and has a unique delicate, smooth flavor.

Green tea isn't the only tea with powerful health benefits. According to researchers at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, white tea is also full of powerful antioxidants and might have the strongest potential of all teas for fighting cancer, especially colon cancer.

White tea is a very rare, expensive connoisseurs tea that is only produced in China, mainly Fukien (Fujian) province, famous for its prized white teas. It is difficult to obtain as production is extremely limited. White tea comes from a rare strain of the tea plant and is harvested only a few days of the year. Once harvested, white tea is not oxidized or rolled, but simply withered and dried by steaming.

Researchers speculate that the processing of tea determines its cancer fighting potential. Because white tea goes through the least amount of processing, it theoretically has the most polyphenols (as some polyphenols are oxidized or destroyed during processing). These polyphenols have been linked to cancer prevention.