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bags Leaf Tea

Loose Leaf tea vs Tea
Loose-leaf tea offers a wide variety of options in Sapphire Earl Grey
terms of flavours, types, and blends. You can
choose from different teas, such as black, green,

white, yellow, oolong, and herbal plus blended
options for all types. The scope for flavour is
endless, whereas teabags typically have a
succinct range.

Persian Pomegranate Herbal Blend

Pai Mu Tan white tea from Fuijian region

Tea is full of polyphenols and antioxidants which are extremely beneficial to
the human body. Loose leaf being the higher quality tea is far more
concentrated in the amount of health benefits present in the tea. The whole
leaf retains its flavor and freshness much better than small-grade teas where
flavour loss is magnified with teabag grades such as dust and fanning’s.

In general, tea has

Tea is full of much less caffeine
than coffee, typically
polyphenols and black tea has around

antioxidants which half the caffeine of the
same size cup of
are extremely coffee, Green Teas a

beneficial to the quarter, and popular
herbal teas such as
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body. Lemongrass &Ginger,
and Fruit infusions are
all caffeine free.

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