Oolong vs Green Tea – Anti-Inflammatory Good for Eczema

Oolong vs green tea for your next tea drink is a good debate.

Oolong makes for a mild tasting, and good cold brewing tea to sip on and make without any fancy equipment. This can be your easy way to wean off coffee on the work day when the clock strikes noon. Oolong all day!

If you’re not familiar, oolong vs. green tea has a mild leafy taste like a jasmine tea that’s commonly served with fortune cookies in Chinese restaurants.🥠

And if it’s good enough for a cookie, then it’s a sweeter tasting one!

And oolong is better than green tea in ways, besides being less bitter tasting. 

For one reason, oolong tea is good for eczema flareup symptoms with its anti-allergy effects and lower histamine (for dyshidrotic eczema blisters).

And so interesting that both teas come from the same Camellia sinensis green tea plant.

And you’d never know these ordinary-looking green tea leaves make our green, oolong, black and white teas! 🍵🍃

And especially if you’re not a green tea bitter taste fan, but like the idea of its healthy benefits, you can make a cold brew tea with oolong that’s more mild tasting.

And the lower preparing temperatures for green and oolong help to prevent burning the tea leaves that would yield a bitter taste.

With cold brew tea, there’s no worries!

And that’s why oolong and green work well for cold brew tea (below 100°C), as they brew at cooler temps than say black tea (that’s good at boiling temperatures).

So when deciding which tea, green vs. oolong tea, oolong has a milder tea taste  so you have more flavor options.  You can make it a flavorful tea by adding in florals, fruity flavors, or even cold brew coffee (that’s also easy to make!) to mask any undesired tea tastes and reap the healthy benefits.

…I first learned about brewing cooler tea temps when I was doing research and interviewing tea experts and sommeliers on the perfect green tea brewing temperature, writing for healthy lifestyle publications.

And that’s when I heard about oolong tea, that’s not as common in the western world. It’s imported mostly from mountainous areas in Asia. But oolong has come a 00-long way as many grocery stores carry with the common tea shelf brands.

What makes a tea leaf a green vs oolong tea?

The difference is in the oxidation process.

If you think of oxidation on a spectrum, green (tea) is stopped from oxidizing fastest and black is left longest.

Then, the color says it all…

Oolong tea is in between as a greenish tinged-brown, and tastes more like a green than a black tea. Both have some amount of caffeine, but not as much as caffeinated coffee.

And if you’re not a green tea taste fan, oolong is a great way to get in the green healthy benefits and L-theanine that helps with focus, and relaxation. You get a smooth ride in productivity!

This is great if you’re working on a task or project that requires your attention and/or you’re feeling anxious about.

And if your day is 8-hours, then that can really help you through the up and down workday mood swings.

…Hooray, ooh-long!

Oolong tea also has antioxidant catechins (ECGC), that’s also found in green and black teas. 

…Remember they’re related coming from the same Camellia sinensis plant.

And after attending a tea symposium, I learned that drinking many tea cups daily is healthy.

It’s an anti-inflammatory tea good for protecting against inflammation in the body, around the bones and from your mouth down to your toes. And that helps prevent some lifestyle chronic diseases, especially lifestyle-choice-related ones.

Tea is also a drink you can sip all day even if you’re fasting from food. It won’t break your fast if drank plain where nothing is added (like milk or sugar).

And if you make ti cold brew, it’s already room temperature cold, so you don’t have to keep warming it back up. 🍵 You can focus on your task at hand.

Those are some oolong all day points to get excited about!

To make the cold brew tea way: take a simple brewing tea bag and add to water in a drinking glass. In a few minutes you can see the amber tea color filtering in. And in just a few hours you have a deep amber tea color with no brewing effort. No sun. No equipment. Just water, glass, and a tea bag. 😊 Enjoy!