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Weight Loss Teas
Drink tea, lose weight. It almost seems too good to be true, yet study after study shows that tea really does help dieters - which is most of us at one time or another. The best thing of all is that the teas are all delicious and benefit you in so many other ways too.
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Pinhead Gunpowder
Requiring extreme skill and patience, the leaves of this green tea are tightly rolled into pellets resembling lead shot, resulting in a tea which keeps and which produces a nutty, oaky flavour. Best drunk withour milk and with a touch of sugar.
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China Green tea bags
A fine Chinese green tea with a fresh, bright flavour. All the health benefits of green tea - in a convenient tea bag. Green tea is naturally low in caffeine, so it is ideal for drinking after dinner. This also makes a delicious iced tea for the summer.
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Gunpowder
This green tea is rolled into little balls that “explode” when placed in the teapot. It is widely used to prepare mint tea, but is also delicious on its own. The yellow-green liquor is highly refreshing. A relaxing afternoon tea. A very small amount of sugar will enhance the flavour.
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Mao Feng Green
Mao Feng, one of the rarer and finer grades of Keemun, is a famous black tea, and this Green version is its even rarer cousin. The tea creates a bright, clean, chesnut-rich flavour, ideal for drinking at any time, particularly after a meal. Mao Feng is best drunk without milk.
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Green Earl Grey
A green tea version of the famous Earl Grey – this is delicious, with the same wonderful aromatic citrus character, but being made with green tea, this is more delicate and subtle. It is also naturally lower in caffeine so is ideal for drinking later in the day.
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ORGANIC Japanese Bancha
A full-flavoured, robust and very satisfying organic green tea with a bright yellow-green liquor and woody, toasty character. Great with food or after a meal – it’s good for the digestion, the flavour is strong enough to withstand food, and it’s low in caffeine.
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Genmai Cha
Genmai Cha is the famous Japanese green tea mixed with toasted brown rice. Do you love this unique tea or hate it? It’s one or the other! If you’ve never tried it, now’s the time – why not experiment with a 25g bag?
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Silver Needles
Silver Needles, perhaps the most renowned tea in the world today, has a very delicate, refreshing character with distinct fruit notes. This is the tea the Chinese Emperors drank over 5000 years ago. Who would have thought that such a famous name in tea could also be such fun to drink?
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Jasmine Silver Needles
Silver Needles scented with the finest Jasmine blossoms. This gives a very delicate character, but with a hint of Jasmine. Very refreshing. Silver Needles is the tea Chinese Emperors drank over 5000 years ago. Highly Recommended.
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Jasmine Pearls
A beautifully made, very light green tea from China. The leaves are hand-rolled into the eponymous "pearls" and scented with Jasmine 6 times over. Virtually a white tea. Please try this one! Quite outstanding.
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Pai Mu Tan
One of the great white teas of China, famous throughout the world. To drink this sweet, bright, refreshing tea is to be part of an ancient tradition of tea-making excellence that is steeped in tradition and mystery.
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Jade Pillar
The finest, downy leaves are individually and painstakingly hand-rolled into tube or pillar shapes, producing a white tea with a sweet and crystal clear flavour, with a strongly floral character.
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Yerba Mate
Mate (pronounced mah-tay) is not simply a drink. It is a whole attitude to life, symbolising the friendship bonds, tradition and spirituality of the native peoples of South America. Famous as a weight-loss tonic, this delicious herbal drink, very similar in taste to Green Tea, can stimulate your body while relaxing and focusing your mind.
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