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Prioritization and Reasonings: 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?