How To Make Green Tea Taste Great

By Jackie Wicks PEERtrainer Founder

I was at Starbucks the other day and ordered my favorite green tea which is Tazo Green Ginger. It turns out that they stopped carrying it and are now selling a higher end line of Tazo teas that don't include Green Ginger as a flavor. This prompted me to look for a replacement because I love the taste of ginger in green tea.

At home today, I realized that I could simply use actual ginger in my regular green tea. Which I did. I cut up a couple small cubes of ginger, pressed them with my palm and then tossed them in the cup alongside the tea bag.

After a few minutes, the fresh ginger really made its presence felt. It tasted great! If you think about it, ginger is used as a popular flavor. Ginger ale, ginger snaps, gingerbread etc. So why not go right to the source. It is cheap to buy, it can sit in your fridge forever and it has a strong refreshing flavor. If you like, you can add a very small amount of cane sugar to the tea. Presto, you have something that literally tastes like you are drinking a ginger snap cookie. At night you can simply make tea out of fresh ginger and experiment with your own flavors.

The Health Benefits Of Ginger

Ginger is also great for your health. It has properties that function as an anti-inflammatory and as an anti-oxidant. It is widely used to help calm down upset stomachs. Additionally, if you are experiencing pain in your knees or joints, research now shows that daily ginger consumption has been shown to reduce pain in a statistically significant way. There is also new research to show that ginger can kill cancer cells. Researchers are finding that when inflammation is decreased, cancer cells decrease.

How To Get The Benefits Of Green Tea Without Drinking Green Tea!!

You might also be interested to know that both ginger and green tea are key ingredients in one of the most clinically researched supplements on the market. This supplement is called zyflamend, made by a company called New Chapter which has a golden reputation. If you have learned the health benefits of green tea, and don't like drinking it, definitely check that out. It also includes an array of other herbs and spices which all work together to do great stuff.

For those of you following the PT Cheat System, we have you count coffee, even if there is no sugar or milk, but Green Tea is unlimited. We are considering adding some incentive for people to drink the green tea and fresh ginger combination. The health and energy benefits are simply overwhelming. Even if you go to the store, buy some fresh ginger and try it with your tea and don't like it, you'll likely find another use for it.

There are many ways to eat ginger. When I make a trip to the local Whole Foods juice bar, I make sure to add 1 ounce of raw ginger to my drink. It helps any green drink taste good and as we are learning, it is very good for you. You can also puree it and add it to soups, stews- really anything.

If you want to read a little more about what we are doing with the Cheat System, click here. This is a new healthy eating plan, with some interesting twists. What we are doing here is making it easy to pursue a diet that gives you energy, while making it easy and forgiving. The easy and forgiving is a big deal because so many people feel badly about themselves when they go off track or "Cheat." The use of the word cheat has been controversial, but what we are doing is turning a negative into a positive, or at a minimum reducing the disempowering connotation that people normally have with the word.

The system is also free.

To learn more about PEERtrainer, you can go to our homepage. The Cheat System is also part of a broader free weight loss program that we have put together over the years.

Related PEERtrainer Community Discussion:

Does Green Tea Help You Lose Weight  (the answer is yes of course!)

 

Comments

[Air Jordan Shoes]

*People are always telling you what to do, but what's right for them may not be right for you.

[Luke The Green Tea Guy]

Enjoyed your post. I thought that I would add a short comment regarding Ginger (which I love!)

When buying ginger, fresh is ALWAYS best! And buy ORGANIC if it's not too expensive. Be sure to avoid ginger with dry, wrinkled skin, or if it has mold or soft spots. African and Indian ginger are the most potent. Grating or using a garlic press will give you the maximum benefit. You can buy an inexpensive garlic press at Amazon or other online store.

Ginger can definitely give you many benefits but more is not always better. An ounce a day should give you all the benefits you will need. Don't overdo!!

Good luck and live in health!

[moby wrap]

When I make a trip to the local Whole Foods juice bar, I make sure to add 1 ounce of raw ginger to my drink. It helps any green drink taste good and as we are learning, it is very good for you!

[Rudy Shaw]

Great tip. I have also heard of adding lemon juice to green tea since citrus increases the antioxidant effect of green tea.

[flowering tea]

Your definitely right, ginger goes perfectly well with tea, aside from using loose green tea, you can also try them with blooming or flowering tea and watch them bloom as well.

[Avelina Wholesale Food]

Green tea plus ginger is truly a great gift for those who are suffering from some digestive problem, I would strongly recommend them to have this specially after a dinner.

[Steve]

I've found that Tazo is a pretty decent bagged tea. Used to drink it a lot at my last job.

You can also make straight ginger tea (no tea leaves). I've had it at a few Indonesian or Southern Chinese restaurants. It's pretty intense, but I like it.

[Weight Loss]

Drink hot green tea with added black pepper powder. It can do magic to your sore throat! It's also good to reduce cuffing.

[Christine]

I completely agree about the "not too hot" advice, and would further recommend finding a good source of whole leaf teas. The problem with bagged teas sometimes being harsh tasting can in part be due to what happens to the leaf "dust" as it ages in the bag and brews too quickly in hot water.

High quality whole leaf teas are not always easy to find in your local grocery store, but there are some good online sources. Even though they seem expensive, good teas still tend to be considerably cheaper than coffee on a cup by cup basis.

I also grow my own tea (though it takes alot of plants and requires a reasonably mild climate), and have never had a harsh brew. I like to scent mine with roses and osmanthus (a sweet smelling flower, much nicer than jasmine in my opinion), and my favorite in the summer is green with mint.

[Valerie]

If you live in the South, find Luzianne Green Tea (blended for iced tea.) This is the only green tea I have ever liked! It is near the iced-tea tea-bags (bottom shelf usually) in the grocery store.

Even better, Luzianne green tea is inexpensive and the tea bags are "family-sized". I make it in pitchers and drink it cold/iced in large glasses. Drinking it this way makes it easy to get the 5+ cups that a lot of studies say provides a real metabolic boost.

Agree with the poster who said don't use boiling water. Boil the water and leave it for 3 minutes, then it will be approx the right temperature for green tea.

[Illia Barger]

Most people don't like the taste of green tea saying that it is bitter. This is true only if you pour boiling water on it. The water must be 180 degrees only. And it should be steeped
only for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes for the first pour.The tea is not bitter and has its own incredible aroma and flavor. Loose tea is a better quality generally and of course there are many grades that you can choose from. I get mine from Gloria's Green Tea. Her husband's family are tea growers in Japan and they import small amounts every season. Her email is [email protected] to get info.

[walker62]

If you like fruit flavors, Lipton sells White Tea with Island Mango and Peach Flavor that is 'made with real orange leaves and lemongrass'... very fragrant, refreshing.

OR

Try snacking on green tea and crisp slices of grannysmith apple.

[tjnames]

I put two green tea bags in a glass bottle (re-used lipton unsweetened tea bottle) and chill it. Do I get any benefits from green tea with this method?