Matcha is a premium type of green tea which is lauded for its health benefits. It’s made by plucking the finest and youngest tea leaves and carefully stone-grinding them into a fine powder. But what makes it so healthy? We take a look at the nutrients in matcha and how they affect your body.

From matcha lattes to ice cream and mochi, matcha green tea has become a familiar face in recent years. For many of us, it’s a new and exotic flavour. But in Japan, where it originates, this special ingredient has been around for a very long time. Its long history has given matcha farmers a chance to perfect their methods to make tea of the absolute highest quality. This is known as ceremonial grade matcha.

The nights are drawing in, and the air is getting crisper. Soon, the leaves will start to turn the colour of rust, and we’ll retreat indoors to hibernate by the fire with a mug of something warming. There is certainly plenty to love about the move into autumn and winter, but the colder seasons can leave you feeling run down. We take a look at the best advice for how to stay healthy in winter.

So, you’ve looked into the benefits of milk thistle and you’re keen to give it a go - great! But there is a lot of information out there about the best way to take milk thistle and exactly how long to take it for. In this article, we take a look at the different ways to take milk thistle, how much to take, and how long you should be taking it for.

What could be better than a gleaming smile full of beautiful pearly whites? A healthy smile with shiny white teeth is high on everyone’s list when it comes to personal care. But for many of us, staining means that the colour of our teeth isn’t as we’d like it. It's available in many commercial toothpastes, but does activated charcoal whiten teeth?

You’ll have seen it everywhere in the form of black burger buns, toothpaste and even ice-cream. It’s a food trend that has been around for a while and seems to only be growing in popularity, but what is activated charcoal, and what does it actually do?

Good news: Olive oil is definitely good for you.

Feeling a little sluggish? We all have days when getting out of bed seems a bit too much like hard work. Often, the first thing we do to try and power through days with low energy is to stock up on snacks. But it turns out that the foods you think are giving you an energy boost can actually make you feel worse! Find out about the healthy foods that can power your day the right way.