Lets not forget Tea!!

After preaching about how great coffee is, I suppose I better chat about the great british brew!

Many of you probably have your morning ‘brew’ and often wonder if it is bad for you or not. Well in my opinion it is not bad for you, if it is tea! Firstly a clarification on tea, all four kinds of non-herbal tea, green, black, white and red come from the same plant known as 'camellia sinesis'.

The only difference between green tea and black tea is the degree of processing that the leaves got through post harvesting. Black tea is fully fermented and green tea is not fermented at all. This processing does not change the chemical component of the tea though and both tea’s are still cancer fighting due to the high levels of something called 'catechins'. Numerous studies have shown that men who drink more than 4 cups of black tea a day (Tetley, PG Tips etc) had significantly lower risk of stroke and the tea reduced their bad cholesterol.