White Tea Beats Green Tea In Fighting Germs

While we're still on white tea being better than green tea ScienceDaily 5/25/04 "studies conducted at Pace University have indicated that White Tea Extract (WTE) may have prophylactic applications in retarding growth of bacteria that cause Staphylococcus infections, Streptococcus infections, pneumonia and dental caries...The anti-viral and anti-bacterial effect of white tea (Stash and Templar brands) is greater than that of green tea...White tea extract exhibited an anti-fungal effect on both Penicillium chrysogenum and Saccharomyces cerevisiae...White tea extract may have application in the inactivation of pathogenic human microbes, i.e., bacteria, viruses, and fungi...Milton Schiffenbauer, Ph.D., a microbiologist and professor in the Department of Biology at Pace University's Dyson College of Arts & Sciences and primary author of the research"

Of course white tea is a tid bit more expensive and harder to find than green tea - so there's that.

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Green tea and cholesterol

Green tea improves blood lipid levels NutraIngredients USA 11/27/06 "Coimbra and her colleagues report that at the end of the intervention period significant beneficial improvements were observed in the lipid profile of the volunteers. A reduction in LDL-cholesterol was observed in 90 per cent of the subjects (average decrease of 8.9 per cent from baseline), and an increase in HDL-cholesterol was observed in 69 per cent of the subjects (average increase of 4 per cent from baseline)...The ratio of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol, reported to be the most specific lipid risk factor for CVD, decreased by six per cent after four weeks of tea drinking."

More evidence of the value of green tea. Of course white tea has even more health value and actually tastes good. Tea tip of the day - combine any variety of white tea with rooibos tea for an exceptional flavor. First and probably my last tea tip.

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