Stash Mutan White Tea
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Stash Mutan White Tea

Mutan White Tea is a very smooth tea with no astringency. Its subtle flavor can be enjoyed through several infusings with each one revealing a different nuance.

When brewing Mutan White, be sure to add a little extra to your infuser as it is very fluffy and light. However, do not fill the infuser more than half full, as the tea needs room to infuse properly.

White tea is mainly produced in the Fujian province in China.

Mutan White is made from the leaves of the "Da Bai" or "Big White" bush and mixed with buds from the "Shui Hsien" or "Water Sprite" tea plant. The leaves have silver tips and are predominantly greenish-brown in color and very flat. The buds are lustrous, soft and silvery. Its name, a literal translation from the Chinese, probably comes from the very pale color of its liquor.

White tea comes from a rare strain of the tea plant and is harvested only a few days of the year. Once harvested, white tea is not oxidized or rolled, but simply withered and dried by steaming.

According to researchers at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, white tea might have the strongest potential of all teas for fighting cancer.

Researchers speculate that the processing of tea determines its cancer fighting potential. Since white tea goes through the least amount of processing, it theoretically has the most polyphenols (some polyphenols are oxidized or destroyed during processing). These polyphenols have been linked to cancer prevention. However, more studies are needed to prove this correlation.