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Health Benefits of Rooibos Tea (Volume 3)
by Dr Marli Botha This traditional South African beverage delights the senses with a bright red hue and blend of sweet and malty flavour. It features a bold flavour profile that entices taste buds and completes the experience with a smooth or crisp finish. The rooibos plant grows exclusively in the mountainous Cederberg region of...
Health Benefits of Tea: Green Tea
by Dr Marli Botha Coffee is the most popular beverage to enjoy first thing in the morning, but it's hard to ignore that more and more people have been making the switch to green tea to get their daily fix of caffeine. There are a few health benefits that makes green tea superior to many...
Health Benefits of Tea: Black Tea (Volume 1)
by Dr Marli Botha Excluding water, black tea is one of the most consumed beverages in the world. It comes from the Camellia sinensis plant and is often blended with other plants for different flavours. Black tea has stronger flavour and contains more caffeine than most other teas, but less caffeine than coffee. Black tea...
BEAUTY BENEFITS OF GUAVAS
by Dr Marli Botha Guavas are a very common type of fruit but are often neglected because of their fairly unappealing appearance, its hardness, and the presence of seeds. The guava fruit can however be considered as a superfood and is known for all its health benefits, even its leaves consist of several medicinal properties,...
GUAVAS: HOW TO PICK ‘EM
by Dr Marli Botha The South African guava industry is primarily based on a local cultivar called Fan Retief, named after the founder of this industry. This variety has a vivid salmon pink flesh, and derives from the original guavas, brought to the Cape via Madeira, by the early Dutch settlers in the seventeenth century....
FRUITY FACTS ABOUT GUAVAS
by Dr Marli Botha When you normally think about the fruit “guava”, you tend to think of tropical holidays and fun smoothies with umbrellas sticking out, but what is a guava really? A guava is one of those exotic, yet fairly dull-looking (from the outside!) fruits that, if you have no idea what to do...
