Green Tea for me 3

Well, I have found another great one! Introducing my new favorite ready-to-drink green tea product:




I was really happy when I tried it. It is just sweet enough with the honey, and it does not have any other outside flavors from the tea itself. Nice. Not to mention it is substantially more affordable than the individual bottles of Snapple @ $1.59 each for a 20 oz. I can get a case of 24 tall 23.5 oz cans of the AriZona Green Teas @ a local warehouse store for $15!


Although, my quest to up my intake of egcgs is unknown by drinking the AriZona green tea with ginseng and honey. I searched the label and website to no avail on it's contribution of egcg to my daily count. So, I called the suggested 1-800-TEA-3775 phone number on the product. I had to leave a message, and about 5 days later, someone finally called me back. The kind man on the phone informed me that at this time, they did not have any information on the egcg content of their products. He also said that it was something they were looking into finding out so they could add the information to their packaging. For the time being, I'm going to assume that 23.5 oz of green tea has as much or more than the 55mg offered in a container of Snapple Green Tea.


So there you have it!

Green Tea for me 2

I've been trying some different brands and flavors of Green Teas lately. I've discovered that I don't really care at all for any of the fruit or citrus flavored varieties.

Today I tried Vitamin Water's "Rescue" which is Green Tea (c+egcg). It's pretty good!



In comparison to the Snapple All Natural Green Tea Original, it pails with regard to mgs of actual egcg. The Snapple brand boasts 55 mg of egcg per 17.5 oz bottle where the Vitamin Water brand only provides 25 mgs per 20 oz bottle.

As stated on the side of the Snapple label "Studies of green tea consumption recommend 300 mg of egcg per day to effectively boost metabolism."

One would have to drink (12) 20 oz bottles of Vitamin Water a day to achieve this goal as opposed to only (5 1/2) of the 17.5 oz bottles of Snapple. Both seem a bit out of my reach, but that would be a whopping 1,500 calories from the Vitamin Water compared to only 330 calories from Snapple brand in an attempt to obtain the 300 mgs of egcg required to effectively boost your metabolism, "according to some studies."

I don't know about you, but I figure some egcg is better than the none I was getting before I started enjoying green tea.

I also made another observation whilst reading the Vitamin Water Rescue Green Tea (c+egcg) label. Apparently there is meaning behind the "C +". It stands for Vitamin C, and according to the nutritional facts, drinking an entire bottle of it will provide you with 150% Vitamin C based on a 2,000 calorie diet. WOW!!! That's great for us ladies in our "20's."

Anyway, I think I'll stick to Snapple All Natural Green Tea Original for now.

Green Tea for me

So, I've been hearing and reading alot about the benefits of drinking green tea. I've even discovered a nice blog filled with information, opinions and benefits. Just one of many, actually.

So I decided to try some different ones and see what all the hype is about.

So far, I tried one with green apple flavoring. It was good, but a little on the sweet side and seemed to leave a horrible aftertaste. I only drank about 1/3 of it. Blah, not impressed so far.


The newest in my experiment, is made by Snapple. It says it's all natural. It's actually quite good! It's refreshing and lightly sweet. Normally I enjoy *VERY* sweet teas...but this is nice!




So, are there any green tea lovers out there? What benefits can you claim from drinking it?