If you have been looking for a prepared bottled ready-to-drink sweetened tea that doesn’t have tons of sugar in it, you are now in luck.
FoodBusinessNews.net announced here that Honest Tea now has a variety of beverage that is sweetened with stevia. It took them a long time to get it all together.
One reason why this was so surprised me. The FDA (them again) didn’t allow stevia to be an ingredient in beverages. Why for pity’s sake?! I’ve been using it for years in my tea.
The next problem was getting the formula just right so that the new tea tasted like they wanted it to and would be OK with consumers. Right now it does not appear to be available on their own website.
Personally, if I see some I will try it but I’m not too fond of the idea of a Passion Fruit Green Tea with Maqui Berry. Seems to be over doing things a bit with all that flavor.
Filed under Tea by on Aug 10th, 2010. 1 Comment. 
The Coming of V8 V-Fusion + Tea Beverage
Campbell Soup Company released a press release telling of its latest V8 V-Fusion beverages. They each contain green tea as well as a serving of vegetables and fruit in 8 ounces.
Since the new beverages with green tea meet the American Heart Association criteria as a heart healthy drink, each bottle displays the heart-check mark. The drinks also contain no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives which is a good thing.
If you are interested in obtaining a sample between now and September 30 before the release in October, check out www.facebook.com/V8VFusion where the company is giving away 1000 free samples every week till then.
Clothes from Green Tea and Bacteria
Now I have seen everything. No way I would have thought this possible. A fashion designer, Suzanna Lee, has grown a biomaterial from a vat of green tea. With this method she can create seamless clothing or create sheets of material that are then sewn together to form clothes.
Depending upon how they create the green tea goop in the vat, they get a papery likke material or something more like a “vegetable leather”. Check out this webpage for some great pictures of the clothing already created even if it’s not commercially available yet.
Filed under green tea, Tea Miscellaneous by on Aug 3rd, 2010.
Just a little bit of news I searched out to find out what the latest was on the health benefits of tea. You know they are always researching to see what more this wonderful drink can provide us.
Reduce Ovarian Cancer with Tea
In a study by the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, Australia published in May 2010, the researchers came to the conclusion that a hypothesis that drinking tea every day reduces the risk of ovarian cancer is supported. According to the data they went through any tea drinking helps but drinking four cups or more is the best.
And it doesn’t matter what kind of tea you drink. However, the data presented, as compared to those who don’t drink tea, women who drank black tea had the best odds ratios followed by green tea and then herbal tea. Then again the study leader, Dr. Nagle, stated that the study “…suggests that drinking one or more cups green tea per day may reduce your risk of developing ovarian cancer by 40%.”.
Tea Has Anti Aging Effects
Everyone knows your mental abilities decline as you get older. Phooey! However, findings that were presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease 2010 tell us that in people over 65, drinking tea has positive affects on your brain.
Those who drank tea regularly had a 17 – 37% less cognitive decline when compared to people who don’t drink it. WooHoo! I drink it every day so sounds good to me. If I’m reading this article http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-data-suggest-regular-tea-drinking-may-protect-against-cognitive-decline-98227754.html correctly, the ones who got the 37% were actually the ones who drank it one to four times a week and not those who drank it more than 5 times a week. Oh, well. It has other great health benefits too.
Filed under Health Benefits of Tea by on Jul 28th, 2010.