Did You Know
In the health-conscious seventeenth century, tea was thought of as a medicine and was first sold in apothecary shops.
Coffee & Tea
Green, white and black teas are a great source of antioxidants, which researchers have found reduce the risk of heart disease and help prevent certain cancers.
Food & Wine - January 2002
Jeffrey Blumberg, PH.D., chief of the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at Tufts University has found that decaffeinated tea contains a similar amount of antioxidants as caffeinated tea.
The Seattle Times
The first public sale of tea took place in 1657 at Garway's Coffee House in London.
Coffee & Tea
Iced tea was accidentally invented by an Englishman, Richard Blechynden, at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. On a particularly hot day during the fair, Mr. Blechynden, who was attending the fair to introduce Midwesterners to black tea, added ice to his tea and sold it. Up to that time tea had always been consumed hot. The iced tea became the most popular drink at the fair and is how most Americans consume tea to this day.
The tea bag was accidentally invented by a New York City tea importer, Thomas Sullivan, in 1908. Mr. Sullivan sent samples of his tea to retailers in silk bags rather than sample tins to reduce the quantity of tea being used for samples thus reducing his cost. The retailers receiving the samples believed that the bags were intended to be used to conveniently steep the tea in hot water and began ordering and reselling tea in bags.
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