Brewing

710EGCG® green tea is high-antioxidant green teas.  It is different from the dust-grade teas that have a very large total cut surface.  Therefore, the usual recommended method of brewing green teas in infusion tea bags for 3-5 minutes is not adequate to prepare Dr. Lee's TeaForHealth®.  It requires an extraction time in boiled hot water for 15-20 minutes in the OX® tea steeper for a full extraction of the antioxidants into the tea liquid.  This is particularly true when the deluxe grade tea leaves are used since the deluxe tea is composed of intact tea leaves that have a very small cut surface at the base of a leaf or a group of three leaves.

The tea leaves will not sink to the bottom of the tea liquid if the water is not hot enough and the extraction time is not long enough during steeping. After the boiling water is poured into the steeper, the water temperature will generally drop to 90-92ºC immediately. In 20 minutes, the hot tea temperature generally drops down to about 65ºC, which is good for slow sipping in small mouthfuls usually with some food in the mouth, but the tea is still too hot for “drinking” in large mouthfuls. Green tea was never meant to be consumed in large mouthfuls in ancient China. A hot tea cooled down to 56ºC which will not coagulate serum proteins is generally acceptable and safe for “drinking”.