Earl Grey Premium

Product Description

• A very special Earl Grey tea that was selected among a large number of Earl Grey teas. The excellent base of spicy Ceylon, with its wiry and regular leaf, and elegant Yunnan is perfect already. In thus requires an exceptional flavor. Therefore added the perfect bergamot aroma from France. A delicious top-class Earl Grey tea with typical lemon note.

  Ingredients: black tea, bergamot.

• 1 level teaspoon for 6oz. (170ml.) serving

  203-212ºF (95-100ºC)

  4-5 minutes.

• Drinking Earl Grey tea could help guard against heart disease, it has emerged, after a study found that bergamot extract – a key ingredient in the hot drink – is just as effective as statins at controlling cholesterol.

  Scientists believe bergamot, a fragrant Mediterranean citrus fruit which gives Earl Grey tea its distinctive flavour, can significantly lower cholesterol. They say it contains enzymes known as HMGF (hydroxy methyl glutaryl flavonones) which can attack proteins in the body known to cause heart disease. The study found bergamot could even be as effective as statins, used to control cholesterol but which can have side effects in patients.

  Researchers from Italy's University of Calabria, writing for the Journal of Functional Foods, used concentrations of HMGF on the proteins which cause heart disease and 'bad' cholesterol. They then compared the effects with that of statins used to treat the same proteins and found the bergamot extract with HMGF worked just as well. Not only did it reduce levels of LDL so-called 'bad cholesterol' which leads to heart disease �but also increased HDL, which doctors call 'good cholesterol'.