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.