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Green tea pearls scented with natural jasmine flowers
jasmine pearls tea
Jasmine pearl tea retail canister
jasmine pearl refill pouch
jasmine pearl health benefits energy tea

Impala & Peacock

Jasmine Pearls Tea

$39.00

A green tea scented with real jasmine flowers, none of which are in the tin. Jasmine only opens after dark, so for five nights running fresh blossoms are layered over the dry leaf at night and picked out again each morning, spent. There is a faster route — flavouring added in an afternoon — and it is very hard to tell apart. This is not that.

The leaf is hand-rolled, one pearl at a time, tight enough to hold that scent for months. Some pearls carry a fine silver down: the youngest growth on the plant, and the reason tea graders reach for the word pekoe, from a southern Chinese term for white down. It marks an early pick, and it is visible for a short window before it disappears for good.

In the water the pearls loosen and open, and the aroma arrives before the taste does. Jasmine first, then a sweet, savoury green tea underneath with very little astringency. Look through the cup and there is no petal, no bud, nothing white in it at all — just leaf, unrolling.

A white cylindrical tin of tea with a gold lid sits on a white pedestal next to a glass of amber liquid, with dried flowers and baby's breath in the background.

One measure gives three infusions. Jasmine's scent is carried by highly volatile compounds, so most of it leaves in the first pour; by the third the flower has stepped back and what remains is the tea itself, quieter and more clearly green. Green tea leaf naturally carries both caffeine and L-theanine, the pairing behind the particular kind of alertness tea has long been drunk for.

To brew — 1 tsp per 200mL, 80°C, three minutes. Re-steep three times.

Organic. Whole leaf. No flavouring, no oils, no shortcuts.

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1 tsp to 200mL cup

80°C degree water temperature

3 min steep (the same leaf can be used for 3 infusions)

If you do not have a temperature-controlled kettle let the water cool for 5-7 minutes after it has been boiled. Repeat the process above for subsequent infusions. Continue adding 30 seconds to 1 minute for each time you re-steep to get the best flavour.

Camellia Sinensis (the tea plant)

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The health properties of green tea (camellia sinensis) have been extensively studied with some of the green tea benefits including cancer-fighting properties (antiangiogenic) [1, 2, 7, 14, 15, 16] and for protection from cardiovascular diseases [3]. A 2010 literature review [12] summarised green tea as anti-inflammatory [4], antiarthritic [5], antibacterial [6], antioxidative [8, 17], antiviral [9], neuroprotective [10], cholesterol-lowering [11]” and improving fertility in humans and animals [17].

The caffeine and polyphenols found in green tea have also been shown to increase weight loss [13] offering science to the cultural use of green tea for weight loss. One specific polyphenol found in green tea has been the focus of much of the research, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), with specific links of EGCG to many of the health properties mentioned earlier [17].


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