Im not sure what is being said here even with the help of Google
translator:
http://tinyurl.com/y9adozn
Sounds like a form of genetic engineering which doesnt bother me
perse. If you look around you will see references to the blood-brain
barrier. That does bother me for some reason. It is absorbed
directly into the blood stream from what I understand. I wished
people would stop marketing tea as a miracle cure.

Jim

I read the whole thing in Chinese. It's strange. Never heard of
anything like it before. The black tea undergoes wodui fermentation.
Then the tea is reprocessed using nanotechnology to become selenium
enriched. At the bottom it says some tea growing regions have soils
naturally rich in selenium. That is then abosorbed into the tea. But
only 10% of that selenium ends up in the tea infusion that you drink;
meaning 90% is wasted. So they came up with a way of using
nanotechnology to help the tea growing in the selenium rich area to be
better expressed in the tea. According to the text, selenium has a lot
of benefit to the human body.

Still, it's very strange. Without understanding the process fully, I
wouldn't try it. Doesn't seem natural. If you wanted selenium, since
it's already naturally present in the leaves, why not just grind it
into powder and then infuse the powder in hot water?

Or maybe their "nanotechnology" process is exactly to grind the leaves
into fine particle size, which you then infuse in hot water, meaning
you get full benefit from the selenium in the leaves, since you also
then consume the leaf?

I just read the other page about nanotechnology processing. They are
using it with Chinese herbal medicine to increase the effectiveness,
and even to produce new medicinal effects from herbs by reducing
particle size the the nano level. This kind of medicine could then be
formulated into injections, tablet form, etc.

Navigating to the page on types of nano teas, they look like instant
tea packets And that's exactly what they are. There's oolong tea,
white tea, yellow tea, red tea, green tea, black tea, puer tea, etc.
Basically, it's all instant tea that's readily dissolvable in either
cold or hot water.

I tried to navigate to the page where it says how small the particles
are, but that didn't open.

But instant tea packets were around long before nanotechnology. So I
don't know what this tea has to do with that. It could be just some
kind of marketing gimmick. Whatever the case, I don't think nanotech
should be used in food.

niisonge

Thanks for the interpretation. Plugging the Chinese characters ÄÉÃ׸»ÎøºÚ²è
meaning nano enriched selenium black tea into Google I found this link
a little more informative:
http://tinyurl.com/ybwd4y4
Basically the Chinese arent getting enough selenium in their diet.

Ironically I have a medical condition that benefits from selenium. At
this time of year it comes in the form of Brazil nuts which are so
rich with the mineral the daily allowance is only 3-4 nuts. Anymore
and you risk poisoning.

PS I like how Google comes up with Ottawa Stack from WoDui ;-). I use
the Google translator so much Im starting to understand Chinese more
through the mistranslation than if I go through the grammar myself.
Ive always envied people who understand a second language.

On Dec 12, 7:47 am, niisonge > wrote:
> I just read the other page about nanotechnology processing. They are
> using it with Chinese herbal medicine to increase the effectiveness,
> and even to produce new medicinal effects from herbs by reducing
> particle size the the nano level. This kind of medicine could then be
> formulated into injections, tablet form, etc.
>
> Navigating to the page on types of nano teas, they look like instant
> tea packets And that's exactly what they are. There's oolong tea,
> white tea, yellow tea, red tea, green tea, black tea, puer tea, etc.
> Basically, it's all instant tea that's readily dissolvable in either
> cold or hot water.
>
> I tried to navigate to the page where it says how small the particles
> are, but that didn't open.
>
> But instant tea packets were around long before nanotechnology. So I
> don't know what this tea has to do with that. It could be just some
> kind of marketing gimmick. Whatever the case, I don't think nanotech
> should be used in food.

> PS I like how Google comes up with Ottawa Stack from WoDui ;-).
Ok, quick, new addition to the Bablecarp:
Ottawa Stack: the Googlated version of "WoDui".

niisonge > writes:

> > PS I like how Google comes up with Ottawa Stack from WoDui ;-).
> Ok, quick, new addition to the Bablecarp:
> Ottawa Stack: the Googlated version of "WoDui".

The carp may be a bottom feeder, but there are some things it just
can't digest.

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

> a little more informative:http://tinyurl.com/ybwd4y4

That website doen't satisfy my curiosity. Much of it is just a copy
from the other page. In this case, the older leaves of Tieguanyin are
used. They're fermented and then immediately freeze dried. (It doesn't
say this, but I supposed it's made into soluble tea crystals.) But
what I don't understand is, why go to all the trouble of
nanotechnology to enrich the tea? Why not just fortify the tea with a
blend of vitamins and minerals - like they do with cereal and other
food products?

And if it is manufactured at a nanoparticle size, how safe is that to
have in your home? When you put the tea into the cup, how much of
those nanoparticles are going to fly up into your nose and mouth and
into the lungs? What if you sneeze just at that moment? And when you
drink the tea, and smell it, are nanoparticles going into the lungs?
And what if those nanoparticles cause mesothelioma? Scary stuff.

I don't like the technolatry of tea. Tea should be a natural product.
Let's keep it that way and not mess up a good thing.

Reminds me of my grandparents using snuff. Tobacco so fine when
inhaled through the nose was absorbed immediately into the brain.
Wasnt there something about nano TGY killing the HIV1 virus. Wouldnt
nano particles be so fine you couldnt see them. This seems a
complicated solution to a problem that could be solved by simpler
means as you suggested. I constantly get email from one local tea
shoppe about the lastest health benefit of tea. I disagree with them
about presenting it that way even to a small extent as they do. But
then I dont make a living selling tea.

Jim

On Dec 12, 8:56 am, niisonge > wrote:
> > a little more informative:http://tinyurl.com/ybwd4y4
>
> That website doen't satisfy my curiosity. Much of it is just a copy
> from the other page. In this case, the older leaves of Tieguanyin are
> used. They're fermented and then immediately freeze dried. (It doesn't
> say this, but I supposed it's made into soluble tea crystals.) But
> what I don't understand is, why go to all the trouble of
> nanotechnology to enrich the tea? Why not just fortify the tea with a
> blend of vitamins and minerals - like they do with cereal and other
> food products?
>
> And if it is manufactured at a nanoparticle size, how safe is that to
> have in your home? When you put the tea into the cup, how much of
> those nanoparticles are going to fly up into your nose and mouth and
> into the lungs? What if you sneeze just at that moment? And when you
> drink the tea, and smell it, are nanoparticles going into the lungs?
> And what if those nanoparticles cause mesothelioma? Scary stuff.
>
> I don't like the technolatry of tea. Tea should be a natural product.
> Let's keep it that way and not mess up a good thing.