1. Good for the immune system

Like other types of tea made from the camellia sinensis tea plant, black tea is extremely high in antioxidants. Cinnamon bark, cardamom, and cloves are also high in antioxidants. Chai tea is a wonderful source of antioxidants, so helping reduce free radicals in your body and promote your cellular health. 

2. Importantly at this time of year it fights off colds

When you’re feeling under the weather, a decent cup of chai can actually help to ease symptoms of the common cold, or even ward off colds . Black tea contains catechins with antiviral properties that may also contribute to the prevention of common illnesses like colds and flu. Ginger contains antimicrobial properties that can help to fight illnesses like sore throat. Cinnamon contains unique antibacterial properties that can sometimes to protect against infection and keep you healthy. Also cardamom and cloves also contain antibacterial and antimicrobial properties, so making a cup of chai tea is a great choice if you want to stay well this winter , Go On Go 

3. Boosts your heart health

Ingredients in chai tea have amazingly been shown to help boost heart health. Basically black tea contains flavonoids, these can help prevent plaque buildup in the body’s arteries, which reduces stress on the heart. Cinnamon is also been shown to help to treat cardiovascular diseases and reduce harmful cholesterol.

5. Improves your digestion

Drinking chai tea can also help to improve digestion. Ginger is also a powerful digestive aid, and drinking ginger can help to improve gastrointestinal symptoms and so help the digestive system to work better, and of course cardamom has many digestive benefits .

6. Good for skin

Black tea is high in a variety of vitamins and minerals that are good for the skin, including zinc, magnesium, and potassium, all of which can help to protect and help rejuvenate the skin, and of course  drinking tea is also a great way to stay hydrated, which will help your skin look healthy and fresh. 

7. Increases your energy and your alertness

Black tea is an energizing tea that can help to increase alertness and focus. Black teas like chai tea contain moderate amount of caffeine to give us all a welcome boost of energy, and the caffeine in black tea helps to encourage our focus and alertness.

8. Reduces inflammation in the body

Chai contains plenty of ingredients that can help with inflammation, including black tea, ginger, cinnamon, and cardamom. Black tea can help  reduce inflammation in your body, which can help soothe muscle soreness and chronic pain, and  ward off inflammation-related diseases .

Cinnamon has also been shown to help reduce inflammation and soothe pain. If you’re suffering from temporary inflammation, or dealing conditions like arthritis, a cup of cinnamon tea can have great  anti-inflammatory effects.

Ginger can help with inflammation too, and has been used for many centuries in herbal medicine for its powerful anti-inflammatory effects. Cardamom also contains anti-inflammatory properties.

These ingredients all make chai tea a great choice if you’ want to reduce inflammation in your body.

9. Good for skin

Black tea is high in a variety of vitamins and minerals that are good for the skin, including zinc, magnesium, and potassium, all of which can help to protect and help rejuvenate the skin, and of course drinking tea is also a great way to stay hydrated, which will help your skin look healthy and fresh. 

10. Good for the old teeth

Many caffeinated beverages, contain  heaps of sugar, tea of course does not and has been shown to be good for oral health. Black tea contains compounds that attack harmful bacteria within your mouth, which can help prevent the buildup of plaque. Ginger and cardamom also contain antimicrobial and antifungal properties that help to kill off harmful oral pathogens. This can help to improve your the health of your teeth .

Staying healthy in the coming months is so so important if we are all to enjoy Christmas and all the party season so Here's some of Mrs Doyle's top teas to keep you warm and healthy this winter. 

1. Happy cinnamon tea 

Tea, cloves, cinnamon, and juices come together for a great warm beverage. And Mrs Doyle's happy tea recipe tastes absolutely delicious and might just help you lose a little weight for the Christmas party session !

2. Ginger Tea

Ginger and lemongrass is a wonderfully  healing tea. Go on start your day off with a lovely warm mug of ginger tea, it will keep you warm all day. There is also much research that ginger tea may help prevent flu!

4. Turmeric Tea

We love this one, its brewed with boiling water, honey, and turmeric in the mug and that's a simple as you get!  You might also add Lemon and mint when you want a to boost the immune system, and of course this type of tea infusion is a great drink as a detoxing agent! 

5. Hot Vanilla Chai

There's simply no better taste in the winter than Vanilla Chai. Its a combination of water, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, cardamom, and cinnamon stick.  These ingredients all provide lots of health benefits. So  if you are feeling a little low or feel like you are getting the cold make this great cup of chai tea and save yourself from winter chills  

6. Yoga tea or ashwaghnadha tea

Thought of as a magic herb, Ashwaghnadha is also known as Indian Ginseng. It may also help in controlling cholesterol level, and there is research that it could increase men's fertility, and also reduces stress and anxiety, so Go On be nice to him for the future of humanity ! 

7. Royal Early Grey 

Royal Early Grey is a tea gives you a  gentle boost, it can also help fight against oral infections which are quite common in the strong winter.

1. Just how do you make the best cup of Irish tea ? and lets help Mrs Doyle's Irish tea Morning for UNICEF
2. So what's the best Irish Tea ? The secrete is in the tea blend , but we will get to that later.  So first  fill a kettle with water and  then bring to it to the boil.
3. Now Go On add one teaspoon of fresh loose leaf tea per person and add another for a  little Irish luck , add one more tea spoonful for the pot. Let the tea seep for 3 to 5 minutes and strain the loose leaf so that you have a lovely brown radish brew .
4. FUN FACT ?  In Dublin they Fill 1/3 of each teacup with milk or cream first  and pour in the brew but in the West of Ireland the tea brew usually goes in first and then the milk.
5. We prefer that the tea goes in first so let's now pour the strong, hot Irish breakfast tea to each cup or teapot and add the cream . 
6. So what's the secret to the best cup of Irish tea, only Mrs Doyle knows that and she keeps it hidden in her house on the far end of the island.
7. So Go On get some friends together and run the ultimate Irish tea drinking contest Go On its  Barry's vs Mrs Doyle's , and maybe also organize a Irish tea morning to help raise funds for UNICEF Ireland's current  East Africa Appeal https://www.unicef.ie  .You decide! 

• The best tea for vegans and those drinking less milk 

Mrs Doyle's Irish breakfast tea is the winner of the best Irish breakfast tea on the island for the last 5 years and is so smooth that it tastes as good without milk as it does with Milk .

Mrs Doyle says its because of the finest teas and her secrete method of blending teas . There are other types of teas that work great without milk so here's Mrs Doyle's list    

• Oolong tea is a perfect tea any time of day
• White tea gives a great choice
• Yellow tea for those of us with an even milder taste
• Green tea is perhaps the best for a healthy option
• Try Ripe Pu’erh for a darker richer choice
• Earl grey is great for the zesty option
• Fruit teas will always  be  great in on a sunny day
• looking for something different try Rooibos tea 
• in the evening try Chamomile 

Its almost Saint Patrick's Day and Mrs Doyle is of course Irelands most famous tea lady so here's her favorite green tea mocktail ! So go on enjoy Irelands National day and go green 

Here's how you do it,  make a pot of Mrs Doyle's minty tea, not too hot, add a dash of ENNIS Irish non alcoholic gin, with a dash of lemon and a little lime juice and garnish with a few little Irish shamrocks and if your Canadian , may be a little maple syrup 

ok here's  the ingredients 

• Mrs Doyle's Minty tea 
• Ennis non alcoholic inspired gin
• lemon and a little lime juice  
• Irish shamrock 
• and a dash of maple syrup

1. Mrs Doyle's Irish Cream tea is simply the best way to quit milk in your black tea. We all know It's not that easy to love a decent cup of tea if you have been drinking your tea with a dash of milk for years and years. So Mrs Doyle got her team of scientists working over time and they solved it ! Yip Mr Doyle's Irish cream tea is just so smooth that you won't miss the milk. Even the look of this finely blended tea is almost a work of art , it has to be seen but most of all, it has to be tasted . There are other alternatives which you can try, and please let us after you compare these with Mrs Doyle's Irish cream tea ! Go On we dare you  , here's the alternatives
2. Oat milk
3. Hemp milk
4. Soya milk
5. Almond Milkk
6. Hemp milk
7. Rice milk
8. Coconut milk
9. Cashew milk
10. Flax milk
11. Pea milk
12. Hazelnut milk
13. Walnut milk

Why is Mrs Doyle's loose leaf tea the best,well because it's pure, no tea bag in between all that goodness. Of course Mrs Doyle does have tea bags for when you are in a rush but Mrs Doyle's tea bags don't contain any plastic, not like all the big tea companies ! Mrs Doyle's team of lovely girl researchers have been keeping an eye on new research by McGill University  which revealed that trendy nylon pyramid teabags releases approximately 11.6 billion microplastics and some 3.1 billion nanoplastics into a single cup. This can't be good for the taste or for you or the environment .

Mrs Doyle mostly sells her range of loose leaf teas but she does have some tea bags however Mrs Doyle's tea only uses biodegradable material made from corn starch, this is treated with an enzyme so allowing it to be spun into filaments.Our Mrs Doyle is smarter than she pretends! and Mrs Doyle's Biodegradable tea bags can then be broken down by the biological process .

But if you want your tea pure and and for it to taste as good as it can be? Mrs Doyle always says a decent cup of Irish loose leaf tea is simply as good as good can be!  so Go On be nice to yourself and those you love and check out             Mrs Doyle's new range of Teas for Christmas, all in lovely Christmas tea tins and help save the world and save you too. 

So why is Mrs Doyle's Bollywood Chai tea so great for winter? 

Well it's a great source of antioxidants, and they help to reduce free radicals in your  body and will promote cellular health, and may be even help prevent degenerative diseases ! so keeps the old brain working .

Mrs Doyle's Chain tea contains caramon, cinnamon bark , ginger and cloves which are also high in antioxidants. Cinnamon has also been shown to help reduce harmful cholesterol and has also been shown to help lower inflammation and soothe pain. Ginger is great to help improve gastrointestinal symptoms and can help the digestive system work properly, and sure cardamom has lots of digestive benefits .Ginger also helps with inflammation, sure its been used for centuries as a herbal medicine because of its powerful anti-inflammatory effects. 

And well then there's the teeth ? yip ginger and cardamom also contain antimicrobial and antifungal properties which can help kill those harmful oral pathogens, so you can keep smiling all winter long until Christmas ! 

So Go On make a nice cup of Bollywood chai tea and dance around the living room until Christmas,  Go on   

Can Irish tea help you live longer ? seems so according to Mrs Doyle's PHD research ! The residents of  Sardinia, Okinawa and  Ikaria are the perfect examples of this. These residents all come from what are called the blue zones, these are areas around the world where people commonly live well into their 90's and yip it seems they all consume lots of tea on a daily basis, and maybe even the morning Irish breakfast tea! so reaping benefits like lower risk of heart disease and many other chronic illnesses.

And there is even more research to show that tea has also been proven to relieve stress! so Go on  having a cup with a friend , is a great way to ease out of a long day after work.