Blooming Tea – Lucky

WHAT IT IS Tea drinking is not only about enjoying a healthy, tasty and aromatic beverage – it is also about appreciating its aesthetic beauty. Blooming tea is a gorgeous example. Designed to be a beautiful visual experience, these hand-woven bundles of tea leaves and flower petals “bloom” into gorgeous flowers once brewed. Traditionally blooming teas are brewed in transparent glass teapots to better appreciate their beauty.

To enjoy a blooming tea, fill a glass teapot completely with boiling water and gently drop a dry tea bundle into the teapot. Watch as the beautiful flower unfolds. To better mix the flavors, gently swirl the water in the teapot before serving.

This Lucky Blooming Tea consists of Green and White Silver Needle tea leaves bundled with Lily and White Jasmine flower petals.

FLAVOR NOTES The basis of this sutble floral bouquet is a blend of high quality green and white tea. Hints of Lily and White Jasmine add to the delicate balance of flavors.

HEALTH BENEFITS

• Improve overall health with a beverage filled with various healthy bioactive compounds
• Boost your brain function with a healthy combination of naturally occurring caffeine and L-theanine, an amino acid with anti-anxiety effects
• Maintain cardiovascular health with Lily flowers’ active cardiac glycosides and flavonoids, known to stimulate the arteries and help regulate the heart function
• Give your body a gentle, stable source of energy
• Help your body lose unnecessary weight by gently increasing its metabolic rate
• Reduce the risk of cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other diseases with this powerful source of free radical-fighting antioxidants
• Improve dental health with catechins – molecular compounds in green tea which have shown to fight bacteria and lower the risk of infection
• Lower the risk of Diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity and reducing blood sugar levels
• Maintain cardiovascular health by lowering cholesterol with antioxidants in green tea
• Lower your stress level by enjoying a healthy, tasty beverage

BACKGROUND To make each Lucky Blooming Tea bundle, specially trained tea artists start with naturally dried Lily flowers – then, using an unbleached organic cotton thread, create a garland of White Jasmine flowers. They then finish with a bouquet of young Green and Silver Needle White Tea leaves. It takes up to 10 minutes to make each bundle, which, when brewed, unfurls into a stunning flower arrangement.