Monday, 28 October 2019

How different is Black Tea from Green Tea? Which one is healthy?

There are quite many kinds of tea available in the market like red, yellow, pink, oolong, black, green and a few more. There is blue tea too!
Okay, no I am kidding there is no blue tea yet. But you never know,  the next time you re-read this post for the 10th time you might be sipping on some blue tea ;)

Getting back to the question. Both are made of the leaves of the same Camellia sinensis plant.

 Then what makes two tea different?

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 Green tea is something made of green leaves and black tea is made of black leaves hence the color and the taste. Yea simple answer.

The key difference is for the Black tea the leaves are first rolled, exposed to air to trigger the fermentation process whereas for the Green tea the leaves are pan-fried to prevent the fermentation.

Leaving Black tea more Intense and High flavor compared to the Low and Light-colored Green Tea.

According to research,
Both Black and Green tea has many common benefits

1. Great alternatives to Coffee as less in caffeine content making it a healthier daily choice to kickstart your day!

    COFFEE> BLACK TEA> GREEN TEA (Caffeine content)

2. Taking it in moderate amounts daily can help to regulate blood pressure

3. Could also reduce the risk of heart disease by 11%

Though made from same plant Green tea inches a little higher as its very rich in antioxidants(due to low fermentation) and has additional  benefits like
 great for teeth, fat loss, promoting digestion, improving mental processes, etc

A recent study has shown that a moderate amount of either black or green tea in a person's diet can be beneficial in the long run.

So it would not widely differ which tea you opt for as both are beneficial in their way. Black tea can get you through a hectic day whereas green tea can boost and fix your cringy mood for little lesser caffeine.

It turns out that Green Tea and Black tea maintain a State of Equilibrium (though not equal).

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BONUS Info- The widely consumed beverage was found by an accident!
( Amusing isn't it to find something we cannot do without was not found on purpose but found by accident, read on)
Tea was found when tea leaves accidentally fell into a pot of boiling water paving the way for the TEA as we know.


Thursday, 10 October 2019

Why is 'i' always written in capital letter?

One is very accustomed to capitalize the letter 'I' whenever used in a sentence and it comes naturally to people who have been learning and writing English from childhood.
But does one know the reason behind the only exception in the language?

One might say it is the GRAMMAR RULE, duh!
Right, it is a Grammar rule now, it was not earlier. What if I say the letter 'i' did not even exist in Old English?

 You heard me right! It is quite unusual because this was not the practice in Old and Middle English.

Take a look at these examples
OLD ENGLISH- Ic æt undergiete
MODERN ENGLISH- I understand.

There are quite a few reasons which I will be mentioning in this post.

So, let's get started,
 Well, historians say that there was no letter i until the late 15th century The pronoun used to be spelled variously in Old English like 'ic' or 'ich'. At that time it was not capitalized.

Overtime when English got more refined, the word lost its consonants and turned simply into 'i'. Though the word itself contains a lot of weight due to its weak appearance scribes thought it could easily get mixed with the preceding/succeeding word or could be overlooked in a paragraph or a sentence. So they started capitalizing the letter 'i'

Another credible reason was the possibility that earlier manuscripts and typography played a major role in shaping the character of 'i'. Manuscripts were one of the major sources to store the information. and writers were skeptical to use the letter 'i' because if mistaken or in case of minor physical damage the letter would have been misinterpreted and the true form couldn't have been restored.


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If you say why only the letter 'i' has been capitalized what about other letters like it, we, a for instance? The reason is, their presence isn't as negligible as the thin lowercase 'i' which uses the least ink in a script.










As there are always two sides to a coin I cannot decide on if the letter 'i' had been prioritized over all the letters and stood as the only letter to be capitalized in the English Language? Or should I consider 'i' as the only letter which had to let go of its consonants and made to feel differentiated, unworthy?

Let me know what do you think in the comments!

Here is an article link which was published in The New York Times Magazine, you can go through for more in-depth info on this topic.
Link-  https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03wwln-guestsafire-t.html