Technically, any liquid intended for drinking is a beverage so named by a word derived from French and Latin verbs meaning ‘to drink.’ Healthy beverages are beverages with health benefits that attribute by its nutritional value. The use of healthy beverage for promoting health and relieving symptom is as old as the practice of medicine.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Tea bag

The tea bags was invented around 1904 by Thomas Sullivan, a tea and coffee merchant form New York City.

The bags quickly caught on because of their convenience and it was easier and quicker to make a cup of tea.

Tea bags hold dried tea leaves but do not protect the flavor unless individually wrapped and sealed in plastic or foil. Tea is considered fragrant herb and it should be stored in a container with a tightly fitting lid whether it is looses tea or tea bags.

In North America, tea bags are the main way of brewing tea today. Most tea bags, and certainly the good ones, use CTC (crush, tear and curl) tea leaves. Some experts claim that tea bag tea is fully steeped in thirty seconds.

There are two ways to drink tea. Some people are dippers. They dip their tea bag up and down in the mug.

Another way to drink tea is to be abider. It is involved the act of just dropping the tea bag in the water and letting it say there.

Some literature shows that biting down on a moist tea bag for 10-30 min can reduce the bump on the gum that might an abscess. The tannin acid present in the tea bag will reduce the swelling and calm the irritation before see the doctor.
Tea bag

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