SA’s Best Barman to Put Rooibos Tea on the Global Stage as He Competes in Glasgow Finals Next Week

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SA’s best bartender, Owen O’ Reilly heads to Glasgow next week to compete in the World Class Bartender Competition finals and hopes to wow judges with his homegrown Rooibos brew. For the international championship, each participant had to come up with a commercial cocktail concept that would also benefit impoverished communities. A canned Rooibos based…

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Study Investigating Rooibos’ Weight-loss Effect Currently Underway

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Rooibos’ anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties could potentially curb obesity. A study led by Dr Hanél Sadie-Van Gijsen, a senior researcher in the Division of Medical Physiology at Stellenbosch University, is investigating this hypothesis. As a stem cell biologist, she chose to use adipose (fat) stem cells (ASCs) in her research. This is a relatively new…

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