Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The Results

After much testing and analyzing I have discovered a miracle. I now know which tea is the most adequate for people who have trouble focusing or are just simply lazy. 

The results are....

JASMINE TEA

It relaxes you in a good way by the simple fact that is reduces stress. Ask yourself, do you find your school or job environment stressful? If your answer is no, I suggest not reading on. However, if your answer is yes, like me, than I have more fun facts to share. 

Jasmine is an effective anti-depressant. What does anti-depressants have anything to do with focusing and triggering your brain into working in a more efficient matter? If your school or work environment makes you unhappy, or a more recognizable word, "boring," than wouldn't a tea that cheers you up solve your problems?

Now, this is not a commercial, so I'll try my best to get to the point. Jasmine tea has a strong and flavorful scent that makes you feel good, and awake. Although Jasmine has a low amount of caffeine, I found myself awake during my oh so long, boring English class. That should say something. I believe it's the flavor and the scent that stimulates your body to focus; aka, it awakes you.

Last but not least, Jasmine tea is arguably the healthiest tea for you, so there's more to gain by drinking this tasteful tea. 

Fun fact: Jasmine tea has seductive effects

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Process of Tea Thinking

I have been thinking about the following question for a while and finally decided to do something about it. The question is: "Which tea makes your process of thinking more effective?"

In this study, I am going to drink a different kind of tea everyday for four days. The teas include green, black, white, and jasmine tea. To make it a fair run for each of these categories of tea I will maintain a healthy 9 hours of sleep, consume the same amount of tea, make the tea in it’s required temperature, and eat a healthy balanced breakfast every morning.

Since I’m a freshman attending college, this is a perfect set-up on experimenting which tea compliments our intellectualness the most. The factors I will follow in determining this are:

1. Enthusiasm towards the subject, if any
2. Resisting distractions
3. Being awake or not
4. Paying attention
5. Level of comprehending a lecture
6. Speed of your process of absorbing/understanding the material

I will post my results a week from now.



Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Tea Smoothie

The other day my 13 year old brother decided to make a tea smoothie. I have no idea what got him into this. He's a strange kid- let's just leave it at that.

He did as follows:
1. Made one cup of hot rosemary flavored tea
2. Mixed the tea with fruit, milk, juice and ice like a standard smoothie
3. Mixed it well in a smoothie maker

It was one of the most disgusting smoothies I have ever tasted of my existence. At first glance, it looked fine, except for the weird looking foam at the top. For the record, my bro is quite the smoothie maker, but that smoothie was nasty. I guess tea is not a good substance when used to make a smoothie. It simply just ruins the flavor. So don't try to make a tea smoothie at home. It tastes like flavored toilet water with a hint of lime.

He also made a movie of himself making tea, initially supposed to be a “how to make tea for dummies” but ended up being a “how to not do it.” I’m actually considering posting this video because it’s so dumb it makes you laugh. Speaking of movies, I might start posting movies made by me with some relevance to tea to make The Tea Drinker more interesting and fun.