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The health advantages of green tea extract have already been trumpeted in the media recently.Despite the fact that the claims could be exaggerated, if you are likely to drink a lot of any beverage apart from water, tea is most likely your very best choice.Tea is water plus phytochemicals including caffeine, and incredibly little else if you don't add a large amount of sugar.Both green and black tea result from exactly the same plant, camellia sinensis...

Based on mythological fables, there are lots of stories of the origin of tea.The first one comes from over 4500 years back.The 2nd Chinese Emperor Chen Sung(circa 2737-2697 BC) was sitting under a tree while his servant was boiling some water.A leaf from the tree above fell into the boiling water and Chen Sung attempted the brew and enjoyed it.The tree was a tea tree, naturally.Another fabled source of tea comes from Bodhidharma, the traditional founder of the modern school of Buddhism...