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  Welcome to Guide India – Connecting the Tea Industry The Indian tea industry is built on relationships, knowledge, and trust. Yet, every day, buyers search for reliable suppliers, manufacturers look for customers, estates seek service providers, and professionals look for the right opportunities. Guide India aims to bridge these gaps by creating a simple platform where the right people can connect. Whether you are looking to buy, sell, source, or offer services , I invite you to get in touch. I welcome enquiries related to: Tea (CTC, Orthodox, Green, Specialty, Organic and Herbal Teas) Tea estates and factories Tea manufacturers and packers Tea blending and private label requirements Tea exports and imports Tea packaging materials Tea machinery and equipment (new and used) Processing machinery, automation and engineering solutions Laboratory and quality testing services Raw materials and ingredients Flavours, herbs, spices and value-added tea ingredients Logistics, warehousing a...

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drink/2011/06/rooibos_tea.html If you haven't heard of it, you will soon. By  Jessica Grose Loose rooibos tea The first time I drank rooibos (also called red bush) was two months ago at the most fashionable cafe in my Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood—  Café Pedlar . It's a robust herbal tisane  (not technically a tea), and its flavor has an almost tobacco-like, nutty quality. Dan Torres, the general manager of the cafe and a  New York Times -anointed "tastemaker," called it a "coffee drinker's tea." Once I had rooibos at Pedlar, I started noticing it everywhere:  It is an essential ingredient in a tea sold where I get acupuncture that promises to "sweep toxins away" ; it's part of an  organic-skin-care line's age-defying serum ; it's even on the menu at the famous  Russian Tea Room . These are just anecdotal observations, but there's also real data suggesting that rooibos is growing in popularity....

March 30, 2006 Tea may be more than a trendy coffee alternative, according to researchers at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre (DHRC). Their findings, published in a recent issue of the European Journal of Neuroscience , suggest that regular consumption of either black or green tea may reduce the risk of age-related degenerative brain disorders such as Alzheimer disease. “We looked at the protective effects of two tea extracts and their main constituents, called catechins, on dying nerve cells,” says senior author Rémi Quirion, PhD, Scientific Director of the DHRC and of the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (CIHR). “Our findings showed that administration of both black and green tea extracts and catechins strongly blocked death of neurons. This is the first study to show this beneficial effect of both black and green tea.” Quirion and his colleagues used cultured nerve cells (also called neurons) for this study and exposed them to amyloid, a protein bel...