Richard,

What brand do you buy?

Mary

At 07:24 AM 4/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>My understanding is that studies have shown benefits of green tea not black. I
>have a book somewhere can't find now by Murray about various herbs and he cites
>these studies. I'll try to find it.
>
>--Richard
>
>Jael Greenleaf wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>         All tea comes from camellia senensis and as  has been pointed out,
>> some is dried until dehydrated  and some is dried until slightly fermented.
>> Others are fired either in baskets or pans, though this doesn't mean cooking
>> them, just drying them further. The study that was done on the good pheynols
>> was done with green tea, but my understanding (from a local tea maven) is
>> that they all have the same properties, the study just didn't include black
>> tea.
>> >From Mac who enjoys a cuppa.
>
>