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
The Authority's standing record on 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 allowed on a label, what milk does, where the ceilings sit, and what the health record looks like in the gardens themselves.