"Brent" > wrote in message
...
> > Sorry, I can't get to the original in the near future. But if they
> > really mean it that way, then what they represent as the Asian (at
> > least *East* Asian) way of steeping leaves is wrong. Resteeping the
> > same leaves is the norm in East Asia.
>
> That is what I meant to say- they did successive steeps (resteeps, if
> you will) of the same leaves or bags. No "fresh" leaves/bags were
> used except in the first steeps.

That raises another point. Does the report say that they used boiling water
for black tea and cooler water for green and oolong teas? If so, that might
account for the lower amounts of methylxanthines released for the green and
oolong teas.

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