Health benefits of silver needle tea

Definition

White tea, or silver needle tea, is a sort of tea produced in China, from leaves and buds gathered in the second half of March and early April. Gathered ingredients undergo less processing than in any other sort of tea, thus keeping beneficial properties above all other sorts of tea.

It is widely accepted that tea is a very healthy beverage and that white tea is the healthiest variety of tea. Most people agree that Silver Needle tea is the best white tea, which would make it the best tea there is. Here are some reasons in support of that claim.

Health befits of silver needle tea

It is most exclusive, most expensive and highest quality tea in existence and it is often hard to find in stores. It is grown only in Fujian province, China, and its ingredients, young leaves and buds are picked between 15th of March and 10th of April, when it is not raining. Only the unopened, undamaged buds are used in fermentation. According to a recent research conducted at Linus Pauling Institute, Silver Needle tea can also be used to fight cancer and serves as a deterrent as well.

It is also a good day starter. As white tea is primarily made of buds and young leaves, it contains high level of caffeine. Other teas, including green tea, are made from older leaves which have lower levels of caffeine. High level of caffeine is likely to kick-start you into the day.

Costs of silver needle tea

Although Silver Needle tea is most expensive tea there is, it is nevertheless affordable. It costs between $ 60 and $ 100 a pound, and very good white teas can be steeped more than once, thus producing 250 to 300 cups from one pound. Some math will tell us that a cup of finest, rarest, most exclusive, most coveted tea on Earth, finest variety of it, costs well below 50 USD cents.

Well, there certainly are more expensive and less exclusive things out there. It is likely that you'll have to shop for Silver Needle tea online. These are things to bear in mind: it is called Bai Hao Yinzhen in Chinese, and see that there are no broken or dry looking buds in the picture of the variety you are about to order. Buds should be green to light yellow or white and hairy. Brown or leafy buds are undesirable.