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.

Most of the tea that is consumed in the world is of the oxidised black tea variety; this makes up about 80% of all tea consumed. Oolong tea is consumed much less at about 2%. Green teas account for the remainder of tea consumption ~20%. There is also a geographical split with regards to the type of tea that is consumed.

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.

In Britain today on average each person drinks 3 cups of tea per day.

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.

The tax on tea even started a war between England and America . America was then part of the British Empire and ruled by England . The Americans did not like the tax they had to pay on tea coming from England and in 1773 threw 340 chests of tea overboard in Boston – the famous Boston Tea Party. This was one of the causes of the American War of Independence.

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 produced in three different ways which produce three distinct types: Black, Green and Oolong.

1. Green Tea: this is produced in a non-oxidising way by drying and steaming the tea leaves.
2. Black Tea: These teas undergo a fermentation stage that oxidises the leaves before they are dried and steamed.
3. Oolong Tea: These undergo a part fermentation process before they are dried.

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.  While darker coffee roasts like French roast coffee seem stronger than light coffee roasts, they actually have less caffeine than their lighter counterparts. That’s because some of the caffeine is destroyed when the coffee beans are subjected to high heat for longer periods.

Flapjacks Facts – Oats

Blackfriars flapjacks contain mainnly oats – but what do oats contain?

High fibre
Low calories
Protein
Magnesium
Potassium
Zinc
Copper
Manganese
Selenium
Thiamine

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.