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Showa Farm Olive Tea
How to Make Tea from Fresh Olive Leaves
- 1 gal baggie of freshly harvested organic olive leaves – rinse in cold water.
- Spread out on aluminum foil on cookie sheet and dry in oven for 3 hours at 250 degrees F1.
- Put the leaves in pot holding at least 3 qts.
- Add 5 large cinnamon sticks and 1 cup of organic raisins.
- If you prefer your tea to be a little sweeter, add 1 cup of Xylitol.
- Pour about 2 qts (64 oz.) of boiling water over the leaves and condiments.
Tea can be ready in as little as 5 minutes but the taste will grow stronger as it seeps longer.
Tea can be served hot in cooler weather or cold in warmer weather.
Olive leaf tea reportedly has significant health benefits:
- Almost no calories
- No caffeine
- 100% organic
- High in polyphenols
One report2 says:
- It has anti-viral as well as anti-bacterial features
- It has anti-fungal features (i.e., it is natural killer of pathogens by stopping their reproduction process)
- It can lower cholesterol (Olive leaf has been shown to reduce low-density lipoproteins (LDL), or bad cholesterol)
- It has anti-inflammatory features
- It helps in lowering blood pressure
- It can help increase blood flow by relaxing the arteries
- It maintains and enhances a powerful immune system
- It can reduce the level of blood sugar
- It prevents premature ageing
- It can increase energy levels by treating chronic fatigue
- It can elevate your mood
- It aids in the treatment of allergies
- It may help prevent muscle spasms
- Tea made from olive leaves fights yeast infections and viral infections, such as herpes
- Some research suggests that antioxidants can help to treat tumors and cancers such as liver, breast, and prostate cancer. Olive Leaf Tea is best known for its preventive action in these circumstances, maintaining normal DNA repair.
Footnotes
- One can air dry, dry at room temperature, freeze dry, or dry at high temperature. The only study we’ve found suggests that drying at high temperature preserves the greater amount of polyphenols (antioxidents), so that that what we recommend. See:
Muhammad Kamran, Adam S. Hamlin, Christopher J. Scott, Hassan K. Obied. “Drying at high temperature for a short time maximizes the recovery of olive leaf biophenols.” Industrial Crops and Products, Volume 78, 30 December 2015, Pages 29-38. ↩︎ - https://www.oliveoilemporium.com/pages/health-benefits/olive-leaf-tea
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7765412/ ↩︎
