Why Choose Loose Tea?

It’s common in countries such as Japan to eat the leaves after drinking their brew and they are a delicious treat. While drinking tea itself may improve your emotional and physical well-being, ingesting the tea leaves may provide even greater benefits. Tea leaves are rich in vitamins A and E and protein. Good quality loose leaf tea can be re-infused several times and it is significantly cheaper to purchase loose leaf tea versus teabags. Steep your tea, pour all of the liquid off the leaves and keep the leaves to re-infuse with more hot water several times more. This will also keep the costs of serving premium tea down and provide many cups of delicious tea.

Try some of these other practices once you have brewed and enjoyed your tea to benefit even more from your leaves:

Keep a small dish of used tea leaves in the refrigerator to keep it smelling fresh.

Wipe cutting boards, frying pans or cooking utensils with used leaves to clean them.

Rub leaves between your hands to remove onion odor and give them a nice, soft feel.

Wipe iron kettles or iron pans with used tea leaves to prevent rust; green tea leaves’ tannin reacts with the iron and forms a film on the surface.

Cleans oils from hard surface floors by spreading well-drained used leaves and sweeping them clean off the floor.

Place used leaves in a tightly tied clean rag and polish your wood furniture with them for luster.

Roast dry leaves in a pan, wrap them in gauze and stick into an old, clean sock to place in your shoe closet or gym shoes for extra smelly relief.

Add leaves to the base of your roses to help with pesky pests.

There are numerous benefits to using loose tea leaves in your brews and around your home. People have been using these methods for generations and are happy with the helpful results!