Green tea may help support cognition and weight management, boost energy, and offer some protection against cancer. Green tea is touted as one of the healthiest beverages on the planet ...

In Moroccan culture, the tea is made by steeping mint and green tea leaves and sugar, and is commonly served at all times of day. In North America, early Native Americans made a tea from wild mint ...

In estates all over the region, women move among manicured rows of tea bushes plucking glossy leaves and stuffing them in sacks slung from their foreheads. It's an idyllic scene, but life for ...

Kratom leaves are crushed and dried to make kratom tea leaves. The leaves can also be smoked or made into a powder, extract, or capsule. Kratom also goes by other names, including Maeng Da, ketum, ...

“We’re not suggesting that everyone starts using tea leaves as a water filter,” Northwestern University researcher and senior author Vinayak P Dravid said in a press release. “In fact, we often ...

Researchers from Northwestern University have found that tea leaves absorb certain harmful metals from water, such as lead and cadmium, preventing us from ingesting them. The researchers emphasize ...

Next, they added different types of tea leaves – both loose and commercially bagged – to those samples, then allowed them to steep for anywhere from a few seconds up to 24 hours. Once the ...

People who watch their weight often swear by green tea. When it comes to this type of tea, the leaves are steeped in hot water and discarded. Sometimes, the entire tea leaf is consumed in powdered ...

Vinayak Dravid (right), professor of materials science at Northwestern University, oversaw a team of scientists that discovered tea leaves can absorb and filter out harmful metals, including lead.

Researchers found that compounds in black and green tea leaves acted like “little Velcro” hooks on lead molecules. By Alexander Nazaryan Tea leaves pull heavy metals from water, significantly ...

(The overall technique of drying, pulverizing, and then mixing whole tea leaves into water to drink dates back even earlier, to tenth-century China.) Today, with their proliferation in countless ...