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Old School Smoker wrote:Coffee!!!.... The most foul beverage ever devised by mankind, it should be banned as an insult to good taste

Sorry for you as this means you never drank good coffee

GREEN TEA DRINKERS BEWARE....JUST BE CAREFUL ...remember moderation in ALL things is usually the best practice!

Green Tea May Not Be So Healthy After All

By Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine | Healthy Living – 16 hours ago.. .
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A new study shows that some types of green tea are better for you than others. Green tea has been touted for its fat-blocking abilities, its antioxidant properties, and its role in reducing the risk of stroke. But a new report published this week by ConsumerLab.com shows that not all green tea is the same.


Researchers tested 26 types of green tea beverages and supplements and found that some ready-to-drink teas were mostly sugar water. Some of the supplements (which claimed to speed weight loss or help combat cancer) had high levels of caffeine which weren't listed on the labels, and some bagged teas, especially those containing tea grown in China, were contaminated with lead.


"Lead can occur in many botanical products because it is taken up from the ground," Dr. Tod Cooperman, president of ConsumerLab.com, told the New York Times. "The green tea plant is known to absorb lead at a higher rate than other plants from the environment, and lead also can build up on the surface of the leaves."

The researchers found 1.25 micrograms to 2.5 micrograms of lead in tea bags from Lipton and Bigelow, both of which contain tea grown in China. (Luckily for consumers, the lead did not leach into the water when the tea was brewed.) Loose tea leaves from Teavana, which uses tea grown in Japan for their Gyokuro tea, did not contain measurable amounts of lead.

"The majority of the lead is staying with the leaf," Cooperman explained. "If you're brewing it with a tea bag, the tea bag is very effectively filtering out most of the lead by keeping those tea leaves inside the bag. So it’s fine as long as you’re not eating the leaves."

The secret ingredient that makes green tea so powerful is epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a potent antioxidant. Researchers measured the levels of EGCG in different types of green tea — leaf tea, ready-made bottled tea, and green tea supplements — and found that the amounts of the beneficial antioxidant varied wildly.

While supplements provided 22 milligrams to 300 milligrams of EGCG per serving (depending on the brand), bottled green-tea beverages contained as little as 4 milligrams of the compound per cup. Honest Tea's Green Tea with Honey promised 190 milligrams of EGCG per serving but only delivered about 114 milligrams, the researchers found, and had as much sugar as half a can of soda. Diet Snapple Green Tea contained almost no EGCG at all.

Old School Smoker wrote:

winnie wrote:

Old School Smoker wrote: Now, if only there were an establishment that served Voygers / Utopia quality weed with Twinings quality tea!

there is... Voyagers. They have PG tips there

Winnie, my friend, I'm sorry but PG tips and Twinings Earl Grey are not in the same league! Think of it as comparing a Bentley Mulsan Turbo to a Ford Fiesta!

didn't realise you meant EG. It's almost impossible to get a good cup of black tea, English style, in Amsterdam

"didn't realise you meant EG. It's almost impossible to get a good cup of black tea, English style, in Amsterdam"

Tell me about it Winnie!
Many years back one of my first tasks was to teach my Dutch wife the correct way to make English style tea! (Even now when we visit her family they look at my tea making like it's some form of whitchcraft!! )

I drink quality coffee @ home, fresh ground then French pressed. I have a decent espresso machine, but the press gets the most use.

In Amsterdam, I normally order "black coffee" several times daily. And I use one sugar, something I don't do at home. The small amount of sugar and the cookie (biscuit ;-) really keeps the hunger away for me. I normally go during the fall or winter, so the coffee really works well in my case.

I also enjoy a small beer (fluitje size) a few times in the afternoon, but that's another thread.

Hate coffee, I usually drink red bull and coke in the dam (not together lol)

Tea is the drink of the Gods,a bit like finding good hash.

luvtick wrote:GREEN TEA DRINKERS BEWARE....JUST BE CAREFUL ...remember moderation in ALL things is usually the best practice!

Green Tea May Not Be So Healthy After All

By Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine | Healthy Living – 16 hours ago.. .
.

A new study shows that some types of green tea are better for you than others. Green tea has been touted for its fat-blocking abilities, its antioxidant properties, and its role in reducing the risk of stroke. But a new report published this week by ConsumerLab.com shows that not all green tea is the same.


Researchers tested 26 types of green tea beverages and supplements and found that some ready-to-drink teas were mostly sugar water. Some of the supplements (which claimed to speed weight loss or help combat cancer) had high levels of caffeine which weren't listed on the labels, and some bagged teas, especially those containing tea grown in China, were contaminated with lead.


"Lead can occur in many botanical products because it is taken up from the ground," Dr. Tod Cooperman, president of ConsumerLab.com, told the New York Times. "The green tea plant is known to absorb lead at a higher rate than other plants from the environment, and lead also can build up on the surface of the leaves."

The researchers found 1.25 micrograms to 2.5 micrograms of lead in tea bags from Lipton and Bigelow, both of which contain tea grown in China. (Luckily for consumers, the lead did not leach into the water when the tea was brewed.) Loose tea leaves from Teavana, which uses tea grown in Japan for their Gyokuro tea, did not contain measurable amounts of lead.

"The majority of the lead is staying with the leaf," Cooperman explained. "If you're brewing it with a tea bag, the tea bag is very effectively filtering out most of the lead by keeping those tea leaves inside the bag. So it’s fine as long as you’re not eating the leaves."

The secret ingredient that makes green tea so powerful is epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a potent antioxidant. Researchers measured the levels of EGCG in different types of green tea — leaf tea, ready-made bottled tea, and green tea supplements — and found that the amounts of the beneficial antioxidant varied wildly.

While supplements provided 22 milligrams to 300 milligrams of EGCG per serving (depending on the brand), bottled green-tea beverages contained as little as 4 milligrams of the compound per cup. Honest Tea's Green Tea with Honey promised 190 milligrams of EGCG per serving but only delivered about 114 milligrams, the researchers found, and had as much sugar as half a can of soda. Diet Snapple Green Tea contained almost no EGCG at all.

Interesting info. I gave up drinking green tea too. Green tea, now with free lead!

elasticband wrote:So i never drink coffee apart from in Amsterdam, have had 4 black coffee(small) and 1 large latte and 1 small....

How much coffee do you drink a day? does this go up when in Amsterdam?

i use to love coffee until i drank 7 cups in 2 hours. ever since that day (3 years ago) a cup of coffee turns my stomach

I can just about drink 1 and enjoy it but it has to be a good coffee not instant.

It's almost impossible to get a good cup of black tea, English style, in Amsterdam

I've got a Whittards store near me and take a box of bags across to the Dam..

http://www.whittard.co.uk/tea/black

Mail order does the trick. Original, Breakfast and the 1886 blend are the favourites for me.

I've never liked coffee.

I thought I'd try it again when I was there, as it was meant to be a 'pukka cup of coffee'. It wasn't. I liked the creaminess of the latte just not the residing taste of coffee.

Mango loozas, over priced cans of coke and vanilla milk shakes for me

4-5 espressos through the course of the day, usually go with cappuccino in the Dam as a quality shot of espresso is hard to find.

I've said it before: espresso + weed= hippie speedball. A great combo.

Speaking of coffee in the Dam, I read last night that Stumptown Roasters has a temporary popup shop in de Pijp. Anyone been? On my list for June....