Newly Discovered Ancient Tea Cultivar is Naturally Decaffeinated

A newly discovered tea cultivar in China’s Fujian Province is healthful and naturally caffeine free. (Photo courtesy of the American Chemical Society)
Camellia sinensis Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Hongyacha

18 percent is decaffeinated
  1. This is a real tea – Camellia sinsensis
  2. It is thus packed with the compounds that give tea its variety of tastes, flavors, nutrition and health-promotion
  3. It also contains some other rare varieties of the gallocatechin gallate compounds that are powerful in their positive biological effects. The most famous of these is EGCG –Epigallocatechin gallate, the anti-oxidant found in high concentrations in green and increasingly seen as “the magic molecule” of tea.
  4. Hongyacha is naturally caffeine-free. There is no level of caffeine detectable at the molecular level. Even decaf tea contains a 2.5 percent residual amount.
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