Did you know that there are health benefits to drinking green tea? Even if you are a devout coffee drinker, you can still take advantage of anti-oxidant-rich green tea...maybe in between your favorite caffeinated java brew...Did you know that while caffeine can be dehydrating, tea is hydrating. Tea's chemical structure protects the brain from caffeine.

Green Tea is loaded with rich health benefits - weight loss, reducing cholesterol, reducing the risk of diabetes and cancer, increasing your stamina, and lots more.

This video takes a brief, creatively visual look at the health benefits of this ancient brew. It is a good primer for those who may not know that tea comes from the same plant...

While Coffeewiz is known as THE place to come for your single serve coffee needs, we carry a full lines of whole leaf teas, too. The green tea collection has a variety of traditional blends, such as gunpowder tea, but also fruit blends with real pieces of natural fruit, that also add their own health benefits. We have even included green tea images for our customers that have asked - here is the new look of our green tea product line.

Whole leaf tea's popularity has taken off, and Coffeewiz wants to fulfill our customer's needs, so our whole leaf teas selection be growing in the coming months.

Please share your thoughts and let us know if you find this interesting - we do!

Watch this video and learn of some of those benefits, which we will dive into in the coming weeks.

Sure, Coffeewiz is in the single serve coffee market, but did you know that we have an exclusive selection of imported Loose Leaf Teas?

You've tried tea bags, but have you ever brewed a cup of fresh whole leaf tea?

We know that you enjoy your single serve brew, whether it's K-Cups, Tassimo, Dolce Gusto, Lavazza and a wide variety of Coffee Pods, but have you indulged in the simple pleasure of whole loose leaf tea?

You might have heard of some of the health benefits this miracle plant has to offer, such as lowering cholesterol, or maybe even the benefits of weight loss and overall wellness. There's no doubt that we single serve coffee and tea lovers can't resist the temptation of the easy push of a button for a single serve brew, but did you ever wonder if these methods fall short in delivering the best tea has to offer? What can we be missing?

Coffeewiz Jaf loose leaf tea is imported from Sri Lanka.

Each region and elevation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) provides teas of distinct taste, flavor and appearance. Every tea product within the Jaf Tea brand assortment is specially selected by master tea tasters who appraise almost 12,000 lots of tea weekly to find the ideal ones.

It is the supreme skill of the tea taster that ensures a consistent quality tea, regardless of weather patterns or seasonal variations at origin, every time the consumer buys a product. Within days of manufacture teas are packed at source to preserve the quality and freshness of the fine quality tea product.

I tried the Gunpowder Ceylon Green Tea recently, and even posted a video on Youtube of the brewing process, and how I did it. I had never brewed a cup of whole leaf tea before and was surprised at how easy it was. And how good it tasted. It was very different than the usual green tea bag experience I was used to, and I want to open your world to the experience of trying whole leaf tea.

DID YOU KNOW? Cinnamon was the first crop to receive government sponsorship in Ceylon, while the island was under Dutch control in the 1700s?

There's a whole tea story rich with culture and history. Please subscribe to our blog and check out Tea Time Tuesdays for our newest feature! And check us out on Facebook to join the discussion forums and to share your thoughts, comments and suggestions with our community!

I was sent on my first Coffeewiz homework assignment - to brew my own cup of loose leaf tea. I am a coffee lover first, but I enjoy a good cup of tea, too. I am going to be trying alot of the products that we carry and capturing video (and our staff, will be trying it too!). I look forward to bringing you behind the scenes here at Coffeewiz, and bringing the staff who makes all the magic happen to YOU.

After watching Yingci brew loose leaf green tea in a Chinese Tea Cup, and putting up the video on the YouTube, I was ready to see if I could do it, too. I never really brewed loose leaf tea from scratch. I've only had green tea if it was brewed in a the Keurig machine, if it was in a tea bag, or at a sushi restaurant (I LOVE sushi!). Well I was going to find out!

I sampled a loose green tea, Jaf Green Tea Gunpowder Tea using a mesh tea ball infuser.

I filled the mesh tea ball infuser about a third full, because I knew that gunpowder tea would swell, and unravel into whole green tea leaves. This tea wasn't a shredded variety.

Now, I enjoy a strong brew and a more woody green flavor to my teas. No sugar. I find that its often watered down at the sushi restaurant, and I'm not sure how it's prepared.

The tea brewing process was fun - it wasn't hard at all, and I felt that the experience of brewing whole leaf tea myself actually made it more enjoyable.

I really enjoyed not only drinking this tea, with its rich green flavor, but I really liked seeing the whole green tea leaves when I poured it out in a plate from the mesh tea ball infuser.

AND, I will tell you that after shooting this video last night, and then going out for sushi dinner, I think I'm going to turn into a tea snob...My tea tasted so much better!

So I give it a definite thumbs up, and am sitting here with another cup of brewed tea at my desk. So, maybe that homework just did turn me into a whole leaf tea convert! :)