Tagged: polyphenols
Article · Estates & Terroir
The Shade Trees Assam Kept on a Feeling
Planters clearing forest for the first Assam gardens left the Albizia standing because they suspected tea wanted a canopy. It became doctrine before anyone could explain it, spread from Assam to half the tropics, and was not priced until a 1965 field trial put a number on what the shade costs.
Guide · Basics
Assam Tea and Health
Assam tea and health, sorted by how strong the evidence is: what the chemistry of the cup actually measures out to, what the human trials and cohorts support, what the FDA and EFSA have and have not signed off, what milk does, where the ceilings sit, and what the health record looks like in the gardens themselves.