NEWS: Bottled Tea Can Be Low On Antioxidants

A good choice: Snapple shows the milligrams of tea polyphenols on its bottle labels. They are equivalent to a cup of home-brewed tea. Photo courtesy Snapple. Bottled tea is a $1 billion industry in the United States. In the past decade, many people have switched to it from soft drinks because of the antioxidant-generated health…
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PRODUCT: New Leaf Bottled Lemonade

We celebrated National Lemonade yesterday by trying the flavors of New Leaf Lemonade. The company makes bottled tea, lemonade and a lemonade-tea mix with an emphasis on all-natural flavors. The sweetener is organic cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup. The 17 New Leaf options include four lemonades: Black Cherry, Homemade (Original), Strawberry and…
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RECIPE: Blooming Tea Punch

We couldn’t stop drinking this fruity tea punch with tequila and vodka. It’s a refreshing way to entertain guests in the hot weather. It’s also beautiful to look at. The tea is brewed with “blooming tea” (also called flowering tea and presentation tea). The beautiful “flowers” made of tea leaves and actual flower petals add…
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