Serving Suggestions

- Add milk and/or sugar (remember that rooibos tea has a somewhat sweet taste already)

- Add a teaspoon of honey

- Simply drink “red” (nothing added)

- Brew the tea as a thirst-quenching iced tea with a slice of lemon

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Rooibos tea brewing times

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Cancer cells "commit suicide"

The molecule to the left is the luteolin antispasmodic molecule found in rooibos tea. Luteolin is a potent antioxidant and studies have shown that this antioxidant can cause cancer cells to “commit suicide.” (Erickson, L. 2003. American Botanical Council)

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What research says about rooibos tea

Source: American Botanical Council

Antioxidants are hot topics in the health news these days, and an herbal tea called rooibos (pronounced ROY-boss) is becoming popular partly because it is being marketed as a healthy beverage with high levels of antioxidants. The rooibos plant (Aspalathus linearis (Burm. f.) Dahlgren, Fabaceae) is a South African flowering shrub used to make a mild-tasting tea that has no caffeine, very little tannin, and significant amounts of polyphenol antioxidants. Although the tea is new to many Americans, it has been made in the Cedarberg mountain region of South Africa for generations. Distributors are promoting the tea for numerous health benefits, citing recent studies that show some antioxidants found in rooibos tea may protect against cancer, heart disease, and stroke. What’s the evidence for these claims?

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