At your santhé! After water, tea is the most consumed beverage in the world: 1 billion and a half cups drunk every day around the world. The tea is drunk throughout the day as a drink at meals in the morning, 5 hours and even and especially for the well-being and enjoyment.
According to Gilles Brochard (Pdt Club Tea drinkers), drinking tea "conquer it elsewhere. With him on our lips door to the horizon of the World" (little treatise tea, ed. Round Table) . The horizon of the world is that of the East (India, China, Japan, Ceylon ,...) with its mysteries, its culture, history millennium. In the West itself, the drink rallies votes of gourmets.
The french have not been the last to save them and tearoom are again emerging, while specialty stores accourir see a new clientele, curious to know the origin of tea, its culture, its varieties ... It is even more connoisseurs look for great wines, especially the men do the talking as they would a wine, women seeking tastes rare, exotic, subtle. The young associate tea with exotic distant horizons and travel. All these new followers tea did not want to miss the "Tea Salon de Paris" Expo from 23 to 26 November.


What is tea? Tea is a beverage derived from the tea leaves THÉIER, a shrub native of south-east Asia, Théier (Camellia Simensis) is a small shrub buissonneux persistence of the family THEACEES, whose leaves contain caffeine and tannin and a volatile oil seeds. The Green Tea is based on points, or shoots, the Black tea comes from the dried leaves fermented. An essential oil, tea Absolu is distilled from black tea.


Picking traditional tea is limited to 3 buds and leaves early, the youngest. The fineness of tea depends on the quality of harvested leaves.


The TEA or THÉS. Indeed, there are several, some argue that there is as much as Chinese teas in China, which makes puzzling the uninitiated who wonder which to choose. And then there was the Black Tea and Green Tea. There is no easy answer and we will be necessarily selective and restrictive in the context of this short article to give guidance to the uninitiated.


Unlike black tea, green tea leaves are not subjected to fermentation, after drying, and retain all their original molecules whose polyphenols, we will go further. The tea has its wines as wine. Among the greatest vintages include: TEA OOLONG, semi fermented is halfway between Green Tea and Black Tea. For Chinese and Japanese nothing surpasses the TEA OOLONG whose best wines come from Taiwan, where they are grown in small gardens altitude. These are valuable and expensive teas, fine taste and subtle. The POUCHONG, one of the best varieties OOLONG is marketed in France under the names OOLONG PRINCESS TSIAN and SOU.
Teas "PEKOE" highly sought is derived from the first two leaves of the seedlings. Then there are "SOUCHONG PEKOE" (3 leaves the bud) and then "SOUCHONG" the most common.

Among the grands crus are the ASSAM The Tea (India), especially those in the high altitude, which gives broad extraordinary fruit taste with a lot of body and roundness. The Teas from DARJEELING on the slopes of the Himalayas in China, the Greens and exceptional Teas White Tea FUJIAN, or this wonderful tea Blackneck Ynan nicknamed the "MOKA TEA" you are looking teas "bodied", opt for LAPSANG, SOUCHONG, CEYLAN PEKOE ORANGE, DARJEELING.


The Tea, very healthy
The Chinese Tea called the "Elixir of eternal life." In recent years, scientific research is still discovering the therapeutic virtues of tea.


The tea contains: Folate (vit. B9), fluorine, polyphenols, flavonoids, caffeine and theophylline, calcium, potassium, copper, zinc, carotene, manganese, vitamin C.


Consequently, many studies have shown that compounds in tea contrariaient bacteria responsible for dental caries, a condition that further fighting fluoride content in tea.


To slim down, tea is the ideal. In herbal plant is the reference of thinness. For example, the legendary BLACK TEA YUNAN TIOCHA known for slimming, but also the TEA VIRGIN (especially OOLONG or TSIAN SOU), whose diuretic properties make them draineurs effective for weight loss, eliminating water and toxins, Tea Virgin combat water retention which, along with the fat is often the cause of cellulite.


In fact tea, stimulating lipolysis thermogenesis and can be used to drain faster and fats stored disgracieuses. It slows and reduces the absorption of fats (lipids) and carbohydrates by inhibiting thanks to the polyphenols, some digestive enzymes. Thus, a large proportion of fat (fat) and sugar will not be absorbed or stored in the body. By stimulating adrenaline tea limits the absorption of calories. In addition, tea contains caffeine and theophylline, two molecules that activate the burning of fat.


Any regime "thinness" or slimming tea must include Virgin. The tea (mostly green) will allow you to effectively combat cardiovascular diseases and one of its most dangerous factor, Cholesterol. In France, more than 9 million people have cholesterol levels too high, which will increase the one hand, the risk of atherosclerosis, but also myocardial infarction. Or tea contains large amounts of flavonoids, antioxidant molecules that capture free radicals, and we know the devastating effect on a number of chronic diseases including cardiovascular diseases. Everyone knows the effects of vitamins E and C which are benchmarks of antioxidants, flavonoids are four times more powerful, and the tea is largely filled. The American Journal of Epidemiology reported on a study that consumers tea reduces by 40% the risk of heart disease compared with those who did not drink.


Tea anti cancer. Several experiments suggest consider that tea flavonoids may have a positive effect on cancer, or at least prevent and delay. Tests conducted in Canada on prostate cancer suggest the even the USA, a survey of 35000 postmenopausal women showed that among tea consumption rates of cancer of the digestive tract and urinary are below 40 to 70% . Further tests on the skin cancer have yielded encouraging results as is the case also for cancers of the lung, esophagus or stomach. So your santhé ....


The tea has a few other strengths: the beauty, fragrance and cooking ...


The tea is not only an elixir to drink, it is an elixir, a balm for your BEAUTHE. The cosmetics and perfumes are well understood and commonly use tea in their creams, perfume ... We do not mention names or trademarks to not jealous. But you should know that you can spread the anti-skin creams to tea, you brush your teeth with toothpaste to tea (and fluoride), you protect your skin from outside aggression with creams to tea.
You will find in the s perfumers' know green tea, shower gel and bags for the bath tea, tea sprays, candles, incense sticks and smooth and delicate perfumes and toilet waters to tea.


Put simply, two tips:
-- If you look tired, rings or swollen eyes, think of the cold compresses tea (or packet wrung well) for 10 minutes.
-- To have your hair pretty hot glare, rinse them with tea: Boil a large pinch of black tea in one liter of water for 5 minutes, infusez 10 minutes, filter and rinse. To do after schampoing. Of course, it does not drink rinse water, but after you can relax while drinking a cup of tea ...


The tea between even in the kitchen of some restaurants and great chefs (B. Loiseau, Alain Passard, Michel Guerard ,...) does not disdain flavour of some of their dishes with tea, a perfume that is drunk, eat bread and on the skin, in short 3 additional reasons to drink the cup ... For the fun of it.