Tea-leaves meaning

The tea imported from Szechuen is for the most part of very inferior quality, estimated at 35% tea-leaves and 65% twigs and other material.

Writing of the Tibetan he states: "As a beverage he drinks, all day long, cupfuls of, hot buttered tea, which is really a soup or broth made by boiling tea-leaves with rancid butter and balls of dough, and adding a little salt, and straining - a decoction which was invariably nasty to our taste, though no doubt it is wholesome; for it is not merely a stimulating hot drink in the cold, but overcomes the danger of drinking unboiled water in a country where the water supply is dangerously polluted."

Block that enzyme About one third of the dry weight of green tea leaves is made up of a flavonoid called catechin.

Mr Laver, Oxford use the dregs of the teapot to water house plants as they will benefit from the fermenting tea leaves.

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