Is the tea likely to be healthier?
TLDR: The Tea Tavern prioritizes products that are more likely to be healthy, when comparing across options.
The Tea Tavern finds the following to be current situations.
- There are many methods of farming tea.
- Use of pesticides to prevent being killed by insects
- Use of fertilizers to improve growth in various areas.
- (TODO: Find terminology and research) Plants are cut for the purpose of producing more leaves from the plant
- Farming in different elevations
- Depending on what a person is currently drinking, simply moving to tea might be healthier.
- Tea does not normally include alcohol
- pure tea (Camelia Sennesis) does not include sugar
- caffeine from tea seems to be absorbed by the body differently than other products like coffee (TODO: determine if research exists for this)
- There are beliefs about the health of drinking tea (research is needed to prove these are true)
- Tea is useful for health in some form like "helps with digestion".
- Has more, less, or equal amounts of caffeine compared to coffee.
- Tea is not always good for people
- Some teas are not stored well, thus get undesirable growths.
- And different people have different tolerances to the chemicals within tea.
- Some teas make people sick (there are various possibilities for this).
Due to the wide variety of tea that exists, how do we know that a tea will be better for our tavern patrons and local community?