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Supreme Bai Hao Yinzhen Silver Needle Tea 1 Lb. Bulk Makes 90 Cups | 
 enlarge | Brand: Island Teas
Category: Grocery
List Price: $139.00
Buy New: $89.90
You Save: $49.10 (35%)
Ingredients: Camellia Sinensis
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Light & Sweet | | • | Low Caffeine | | • | High quality | | • | Healthy | | • | Delicious Without Sugar |
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Product Description
The rarest and most spectacular of ALL the white teas is Bai Hao Yinzhen Silver Needle! Early in the spring, the individual leaf buds are picked and carefully handcrafted into this noteworthy tea. Infuse in a glass to enjoy the dance of the leaf bud spears, now green. Each bud is covered with white downy hair and the tea is known for its buttery, nutty flavor.Silver Needle Tea is the rarest and most delicate of tea. Plucked forty-eight hours or less between the time the first buds become fully mature and the time they open. This tea is characteristically an exceptional silver colored bud, yielding a light yellow liquor. These tender buds are steamed and not dried as in black or green teas. Health Benefits: There are four forms of Polyphenol in green tea: epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin, and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). They are all called Catechins. Also, Polyphenols in tea shows the following effects:1. Prevents cardiovascular disease. Tea Polyphenol shows good effects on fibrinolysis and anti-blood agglutination, especially free catechins which prevent platelet from agglutinating.2. Inhibits arteriosclerosis, reduces the possibility of hypertensive and coronary heart diseases.3. Anti-carcinogenic, blocks the formation of endogenous nitrosoamine that is a carcinogen in foods.4. Strengthens the capacity of body immunity and antisenescent.5. Detoxifying and antiradiation. Tea Polyphenol is a natural filter to ultraviolet radiation.6. Enhances the tenacity and permeability of blood capillary, improving the resistance of blood vessel.7. Deodorizing and eliminating halitosis (bad breath), anticaries, and possesses germicidal ability.8. Inhibits the activity of cranial neuropathy.9. Helps prevent obesity.10. Silver Needle tea contains less caffeine than all other white teas!Lowers total cholesterol levels, as well as improving the ratio of good (HDL) cholesterol to bad (LDL) cholesterol.
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