background and purpose: most traditional tea shop owners use a bowl to wash tea cups in sari city (north of iran). there are more than 140 traditional tea shops in the city. unfortunately most people drinking at these shops as well as health authorities do not pay attention to the health criteria of the shop. the objective of this study was to examin the tea cups washing water of traditional te...

When a hot aqueous extract of black tea cools down, a colloidal complex (tea cream) is formed, which poses technological problems in industrial processes e.g. manufacture of instant tea and tea cordials. Removal of 'tea cream' by centrifugation leaves the residual liquor stripped to a great extent of the desirable characteristics of tea. The studies on the nature of tea cream, the mechanics of ...

Effects of tea catechins (tannins) on lipid metabolism were studied in male weanling rats fed a 25% casein diet containing 15% lard and 1% cholesterol for 28 days. Crude tea catechins prepared from green tea powder were supplemented at a 1% and 2% of the lard-cholesterol diet. The addition of 2% tea catechins slightly depressed growth but at the 1% level was without effect. Tea catechins decrea...

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the possible relationship between oral consumption of hot black tea and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal carriage in a mid-sized town population in central Anatolia. Patients and Methods: Nasal swabs were taken from a total of 109 subjects (53 females, 56 males; mean age 34.4 years; range 18 to 65 years) including 55 non-tea drinke...

background and objective: although there are reports in the literature on the antimicrobial effects of green tea, the effect of black tea, the most common beverage in iran, on growth of bacteria, such as streptococcus pyogenes, has not been studied extensively. this study was undertaken to determine the inhibitory effect of black tea on the growth of streptococcus pyogenes in vitro and compare ...

objective: diabetes mellitus (dm) is a chronic metabolic disease which affects many organ systems in the body and is associated with a progressive weight loss. many diabetic patients used to consume herbal remedies to relieve their symptoms. black tea and its fermented remedy which is made by cultivating the kombucha mushroom in a mixture of warm tea and sugar are widely used by diabetic patien...

Depending on manufacturing techniques, te as can be divided into two main types: black tea, which has undergone an enzymic oxidation called 'fermentation' during processing, and green tea, which has not. Black tea represents about 80% of world production. Annual tea consumption varies from country ta country, ranging from a high level of about 3 kg per capu! ta negligible values in many countri...

The MICs of amphotericin B and itraconazole for 230 isolates of Aspergillus spp., comprising 156 Aspergillus fumigatus, 20 Aspergillus terreus, 22 Aspergillus flavus, 17 Aspergillus nidulans and 15 Aspergillus niger, were determined by a broth microdilution method with RPMI 1640 medium. No isolate was detected with an MIC of amphotericin B >2 mg/L. Itraconazole MICs >16 mg/L were detected for f...

background: tea is the most commonly consumed beverage by iranian adults after water, and while previous studies have examined the negative effects of coffee-based caffeine on bone mineral density (bmd), the relationship between the consumption of tea and bmd has not been clearly explored. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between habitual tea drinking and bmd in the adu...