Flapjacks and Tea

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning tea break?  Here are is a fact that you might not have known about tea to consider as you enjoy your tea and flapjack this morning.

Tea originally came from China and the spread of tea throughout the world can be read about in depth in other parts of the time for coffee and tea site. As a consequence of its wide consumption there are both important economical aspects of tea consumption, and a wide interest in its impact upon peoples health.

Flapjack Facts- Oats

Blackfriars flapjacks are made mainly from oats.  Over the years oats have had many different properties have been attributed to them.   These include the ability to protect against cancers and heart disease, enhance immune response to infection, stabilize blood sugar, sooth skin conditions and other ailments, as well as use as an antispasmodic, a diuretic, an emollient, a nerve tonic, a supplement, an aphrodisiac, and a stimulant.  Quite a remarkable list of properties, but today the most commen medical quality attributed to the oat is the ability to reduce cholesterol.

Flaipjack Facts – Oats

The main ingredient in a Blackfriars Flapjack is the oat.  Whilst oats have been grown and cultivated by man for over 2,500 years it is only recently with the advance of knowledge about nutrition that oats were recognised as a healthy food.   In fact it isonly since the mid 1980′s that they became more popular  for nutritional reasons. It is now known that oats help reduce cholestoral.

Flapjacks and Tea

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning tea break?  Here are is a fact that you might not have known about tea to consider as you enjoy your tea and flapjack this morning.

Tea drinking became popular in England after King Charles II tried some in 1664.

Flapjack Facts – Oats

Blackafriars flapjacks are mainly made from oats.  Interestingly oats are annual grasses, and are used as both for both human and animal nutrition, in addition to other purposes.  Modern oats probably originated from the Asian wild red oat which grew as a weed in other grain crops. Archaeological studies show that oats have been found dating from about 2,000 BC, but these grains were probably simply weed seeds.  It was probably much closer to the birth of Christ before, as the last of the cereals to be cultivated, oats were purposely grown in southeast Europe or Asia Minor. Before being used as a food, they were used for medicinal purposes.

Flapjacks and Coffee

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning coffee break?

Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.   Robusta coffee, which is often used in instant (or soluble) coffee, has more caffeine than Arabica coffee.

Flapjacks and Coffee

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning coffee break?

Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.   There are two basic species of coffee in the world – Robusta coffee, which is generally considered to be lower grade, and Arabica coffee, which is considered to be higher grade. Most of the coffee sold in the world is Robusta, and the largest producer of Robusta coffee in the world is Vietnam.

Flapjacks and tea

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning tea break?  Here are is a fact that you might not have known about tea to consider as you enjoy your tea and flapjack this morning.

Tea is the second most consumed drink in the world. Tea is an infusion of the leaves of Camellia sinensis into the worlds most consumed drink – Water.

Flapjack Fact – oats

Blackfriars flapjacks are mainly made from oats which are considered ‘superfoods’ Oats were once considered a weed which grew with barley and wheat.

Flapjacks in the morning

This morning I have decided to eat a strawberry with my morning cup of tea – fruity!