Today’s Tip is about lemon juice and tea. I often take lemon juice in my tea, and my tendency was to brush my teeth right afterward, as my teeth are very sensitive. Then I wondered about it and I read online that brushing your teeth right after consuming something acidic (that also includes oranges and grapefruit) can damage your softened enamel.
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From what I’ve read it’s best to wait an hour before brushing your teeth (some sources say thirty minutes) and use a toothpaste with more fluoride.
My problem is that lemon juice, in lemonades or tea, sets my teeth “on edge,” making them so sensitive that I can hardly chew for hours afterward. Incidentally, I noticed that lime juice doesn’t do that! At least for me. I don’t know yet why that happens. But the lesson about that, so far, is that you should pay attention to your body and if something doesn’t work, try something else that just might.
Since you’re here, might I impress upon you how healthy rooibos tea is? This kind of South African tea is a passion of mine, both for its taste and for its health benefits. It has notes of vanilla and caramel, and even though it contains vitamin C, it’s not astringent in taste like hibiscus tea (which has more vitamin C, which is helpful in cold seasons, but beware of interactions with medicines, since hibiscus tea lowers high blood pressure—for more foods that do that, see this post, but remember to ask your doctors about changes in your diet).
Back to rooibos tea (pronounced ROY-boss), it’s worth mentioning that I saw a documentary on TV a while ago which showed that rooibos tea killed cancer cells in petri dishes—which is not to say that anyone should ever attempt to treat cancer this way, but only that you should consider drinking it for its antioxidants in order to help prevent cancer.
A caffeine-free tea, rooibos may also help with insomnia and stress. In fact, rooibos tea contains two very rare flavonoids—aspalathin and nothofagin—which help lower cortisol levels. According to a paper on Research Gate, aspalathin is actually found in nature only in rooibos tea!
Browsing tea products on Amazon I found an organic rooibos chai from Numi I got really excited about, as every now and then, for lack of the right products, I am making chai tea at home myself—and it’s such a delight!
To a happier, healthier life,
Mira
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I believe rooibos tea is the same as red bush tea, from southern Africa? I enjoy it very much, especially with vanilla. I learned about it from the book series The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, in which tea is a prominent and frequent scene.
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Yes, it’s red bush tea. It’s quite wonderful, isn’t it? Glad it was mentioned in that book series. Oftentimes we learn a lot of tangential things from books 🙂 Thank you for your comment, Roger!
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