How to Kick off the School Year with Bigelow Tea By Your Side

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The semester is starting and things are picking up. Feeling overwhelmed? Bigelow Tea can help you ease into your study routine with focus-enhancing blends, wellness teas, and energizing options for those late-night cramming sessions.

Power Your Focus

Bigelow Tea's black tea collection is perfect for early morning wake-ups or that essential mid-day energy boost, due to higher caffeine levels compared to green teas and oolong teas. Herbal teas by contrast have no caffeine at all. With a variety of bold flavors, black teas like “Constant Comment”, which has been a long time choice (80 years!) for tea lovers everywhere, is a signature blend you can count on featuring orange peel and sweet spices delivering both flavor and that get-going feeling that black tea provides. For those demanding maximum performance during intensive study sessions, Peak Energy plus Extra L-Theanine and Caffeine supports sustained clarity and focus without the jitters, making each cup an ideal choice when tackling those not-yet-worked-on assignments that are due tomorrow. This blend contains added l-theanine, a naturally occurring amino acid known for its support of brain functions. L-theanine when paired with caffeine has been shown to support memory, attention and sleep quality according to a 2021 study in the Journal of Medicinal Food. Green tea also contains l-theanine naturally, so steeping a cup of Green Tea with Lemon, for example, might also be the perfect cup when jumping into class work!

 
Reduce Anxiety and Stress

When not paired with caffeine, L-theanine provides relaxation and stress relief as noted in a 2017 study by Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine. Bigelow Whispering Wildflowers plus L-Theanine Herbal Tea is a comforting caffeine-free, floral blend that promotes a calming effect that helps with anxiety and stress. Chamomile herbal teas can also help in managing stress and supports overall relaxation according to a 2024 study done by the Mayo Clinic. Bigelow BENEFITS Rose Mint herbal tea contains several different herbal ingredients including chamomile that may lessen daily stress levels.

Better Sleep, One Sip at a Time

Late-night studying leaves many college students struggling to sleep. A 2023 study from Healthcare (Basel) shared that reports of poor sleep quality among college students rose from 59% to 98% during exam season. When eight full hours may not be realistic, including wellness practices, like sipping tea, throughout the day can help during intense times at school.

Sleep is essential to staying healthy, both mentally and physically. People have long been drinking herbal teas for their calming effects; a randomized controlled trial by Explore NY  backs up the relaxation felt after a mug or two. In addition to delicious flavor and comfort, drinking some herbal teas, depending on their ingredients, has proven to help reduce fatigue while enhancing sleep quality. Let’s explore ingredients that may help you sleep when you are struggling:

  • Chamomile can also help promote better sleep, as measured by an Insomnia Severity Index, according to a 2019 study found in Meta-Analysis. Bigelow Tea has many amazing chamomile flavors to choose from.

More options for a calming end of day cup includes Bigelow Lavender Chamomile Herbal Tea plus Probiotics or the magical blue tea, Bigelow Butterfly Pea Flower Vanilla Midnight Herbal Tea.

 
Stay Healthy and Stay on Track

Nothing is worse than being sick during school. Bigelow Tea offers a wide range of immune-supporting teas that help to prevent that “worst-timing-ever” cold, with beneficial functional ingredients like probiotics, vitamin C, and more.

Many of Bigelow Tea’s blends contain Vitamin C including I Love Lemon Herbal Tea plus Vitamin C, a flavor that offers 100% of the daily recommended intake of vitamin C in just one serving. This essential nutrient is something that the body does not produce on its own says the NIH Vitamin C Fact Sheet and is important to get from your diet. This is important because Vitamin C may play a role in immune support. With options like Bigelow Green Tea with Elderberry plus Vitamin C, you can stay on track with your much-needed wellness routine.

Probiotics are essential in both supporting gut health and the immune system, overall. Bigelow Tea Lemon Ginger Herbal Tea plus Probiotics, a fan favorite, blends citrus, ginger and probiotics into a powerful good-for-you tea that you will want to sip every day.

Your Daily Studying Lineup

This school year, build your go-to tea lineup…we have a few suggestions for you:

Bigelow Tea is giving you everything you need to absolutely crush this semester: calming focus when you're stressed, cognitive clarity for those big exams, immune protection when everyone around you is sick, and so much more. Find your academic game-changer online or at your local grocery store and have the best year ever!

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