All types of tea are different and that is especially true for oolong tea, with its unique aging process and delicate flavor profile. All too often, though, oolong gets misrepresented as a black tea, which hides not only what makes oolong tea so good to drink, but also what the tea’s special composition can do for the mind and body. To understand just what sets it apart from all the others, here is what you need to know about oolong tea.…

Tea all comes from the same place, a little plant called the Camellia Sinensis plant. What makes tea different, then? It’s the way it’s processed. Green tea is made when the tea leaf is plucked and dried immediately, sealing the leaf at that stage of maturation. Black teas are left to fully oxidize, making them stronger but without all of the benefits of the younger tea leaf. Oolong teas are left to oxidize to a point somewhere in between green tea and black tea, meaning it …

Oolong tea has been getting a lot of attention recently as a way to help boost weight loss. Even before these fad claims, oolong enjoyed a long history in traditional medicine as a way to help slim down and keep healthy. With all the claims out there, though, the question remains as to whether there is any truth to an oolong tea weight loss approach. Well, as it turns out, there is, and here’s what makes it such a powerful weight loss tool.…

Traditional Chinese medicine has long held oolong tea as an incredible secret for weight loss. The claims seem almost too good to be true, but as it turns out, modern scientific research is showing increasingly more results suggesting that there is something to the practice of drinking oolong as a natural way to help boost weight loss processes. The tea can’t do it all alone, but both tradition and new data suggest that adding oolong to a healthy diet and active lifestyle can help accelerate personal …