Re: Avoiding Green Tea

All tea contains Vitamin K.  The vitamin is not reduced through processing
that creates Pekoe.  You could boil the hell out of
mustard,spinach,turnip,collard greens without reducing the vitamin efficacy.

Jim

"Doc" <doc @ doc..net> wrote in message
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> "Michael Plant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > Because of some medication I take, I have to avoid green tea.
> > >
> > > I have some tea labeled Pekoe and Orange Pekoe. Is this made from
green
> tea?
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> > > Doc
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> > No. If you have to avoid green tea for medical reasons, you undoubtedly
> have
> > to avoid red teas as well. Doc, this sounds like a crock.
> >
> > Michael
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> Actually not-- I take an anticoagulant drug (warfarin) and green tea
> inhibits its blood thinning capability-- as does vitamin K so I also need
to
> avoid green leafy veggies also (no big loss there).
>
> So..... back to my original question:  is Pekoe/Orange Pekoe made from
green
> tea or not?
>
> Doc