From what I understand, which may not be much: All 3 kinds of tea come from the same plant. Regular (brown) tea comes from the older, drier, browner leaves. Green tea, figure that one out. White tea, which is apparently a newish thing, at least in these parts, comes from the very freshest flowers/buds/leaves/whatnot of the tea plant. Very healthy, very tasty. I can only speak to the 2nd part. All kinds taste good to me: sweet (Tetley!) tea on ice; green/white/flavored hot.
Generic green tea is pretty bland IMO. If you're feeling adventurous and you want to try something more robust, I'd highly recommend you go to a Chinese supermarket and look for longjing tea.
http://www.boulderteahouse.com/ One of my favorite restaurants. Of course, it's in Boulder, so you'd have to go to Colorado to eat there! Still, the website has a retail cateloge where you can order (though I'd imagine you could probably find most stuff locally, but if you're going to get it shipped anyway, it's a good site). Additionally, it has all kinds of info about tea...just click through some of the links.
I drink lots of tea, mostly black since I'm hopeless addicted to caffeine. Green teas depending on how they are brewed and what kind the strength of the flavor will very. Green tea has a grassier taste than black teas and is less bitter. I've noticed some have a slight sour taste. I drink my tea straight with no sugar or milk but I've had green tea with milk and sugar. In an iced tapioca tea that works pretty well. If you like your tea sweet you might want to try green tea with condensed milk or with milk, sugar and a little bit of vanilla as the grasser flavor complements vanilla well. Depending on what your pallette is like you can try the Genmaichai which is green tea with brown rice and I think has a fuller taste than just green tea.
Keeps you from rusting, I guess. Black tea has been fully fermented during processing, and green has not been fermented at all. Oolong teas are somewhere in the middle. So what is 'white tea'? Well, just like those other teas, white tea come from the Camellia sinensis plant. But the leaves are picked and harvested before the leaves open fully, when the buds are still covered by fine white hair. Hence the name. White tea is scarcer than the other traditional teas, and quite a bit more expensive. White tea is similar to green tea, in that it's undergone very little processing and no fermentation. But there is a noticable difference in taste. Most green teas have a distinctive 'grassy' taste to them, but white tea does not. The flavour is described as light, and sweet. http://coffeetea.about.com/od/typesoftea/a/whitetea.htm Found this too: Alright, so tea is packed with antioxidants. What exactly are they, and what have they done for me lately? Oxidation is a normal process that takes place in the body. It causes damage to our cells, and it's believed that this cumulative damage is what causes aging and eventually death. It happens as a result of regular metabolism, but is accelerated by pollution, excessive exposure to sunlight, alcohol and smoking. A free radical is a charged atom or a piece of a molecule. In order to re-establish its own stability, a free radical looks to steal an electron from its surroundings. This usually means from one of your own healthy cells. You end up with a little bit of DNA damage, or a protein becomes dysfunctional. It may not seem like much, but all these little damages add up. Antioxidants are chemicals that generously offer up their own electrons to the free radicals, thus sparing you the cellular damage. Every time they neutralize a free radical, the antioxidant loses an electron and stops being able to function as an antioxidant. This is why you must continually resupply your body with the vitamins and other chemicals that act as antioxidants. There are many chemicals that perform as antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, beta-carotine, and selenium. You can get these from all kinds of nuts, fruits, vegetables and meats. The specific kind of antioxidants found in tea are called phenols, and they can also be found in a variety of berries and grapes. http://coffeetea.about.com/library/weekly/aa012303antioxidants.htm Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_tea
I've been drinking it for almost 3 months now I bought a big pck at Sams Club As a new years resolution I decided to loose some weight and get into lifting regulary. That's what I'm doing right now and my diet consists of green tea.....I have it here at work, its nice to drink it in the morning Green Tea can only have an affect if you drink it on a daily basis, have a good diet and work out....It does not tast horrible, but it's also nothing you would crave every day....
There are a whole myriad of flavors in the green tea category. You can taste anything from a smoke type taste all the way down to a nasty dirt taste, or as tea drinkers might say, "earthy."
Pun: Check out Teavana in the Galleria. They have all kinds of teas. Greens, whites, blacks, reds; some with jasmine, some without, etc. Here's their website: www.teavana.com good info there, too.
Some teas contain anti-oxidants which fight free radicals that could potentially cause the big C. I'm sure it wouldn't stain your teeth as bad as Earl Grey.
