Tagged: caffeine
The oolong weight-loss trials measured hours of fat-burning, not pounds
No systematic review of oolong and weight loss exists, only two small human trials. Here is what those trials, and the closest systematic review that does exist (green tea's), actually measured, in kilograms, not adjectives.
Why a Green Oolong and a Heavy Roast Never Want the Same Water
The brewing guide states the temperature bands by oxidation level. Here is the extraction chemistry, measured in real studies, that makes them true.
The Pot Is Not Neutral: What Six Teapot Materials Do to the Same Oolong
Researchers brewed one oolong in six vessels, zisha and zhuni clay, stainless steel, ceramic, glass, and plastic, then measured what actually left the leaf. Clay changed the chemistry. Here is what the pore structure explains.
Same Leaf, Split Into Green and Black, Kept Almost the Same Caffeine
Catechins collapsed by more than ninety percent between the two halves. Caffeine barely moved. Oxidation, the reaction that defines oolong, is not what decides how much of it ends up in the leaf.
Oolong and Health
What the published research on oolong tea actually measures, not what the label copy claims. The trial and cohort evidence on the heart, blood sugar, weight, and bone, how partial oxidation changes the chemistry those trials test, and how to read a small positive trial against a large null one.