Interesting article, perhaps something for @bram @teaconomics and @supermoon10 too.
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/15/440335039/before-green-tea-was-a-superfood-it-was-feared-as-a-super-toxin’ title=’Before Green Tea Was A Superfood, It Was Feared As a Supertoxin : The Salt : NPR’ image=’http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/09/15/140902695_595d275196_o_wide-441b1aaaf563af63109f914e0f78ad70c5936be5.jpg?s=1400′]These days, green tea has its health halo pretty firmly affixed. But in Victorian England, adulteration was rampant, and the drink was seen as a “stomach-churning, nerve-jangling threat to health.”[/bpfb_link]