Most of
the greatest discoveries of the world happened unexpectedly, just like with the
history of one of the world’s well loved beverage- TEA. 2737 BC, Sheng Nung, a
Chinese Emperor, was boiling the water he was about to drink, when suddenly, a
tea leaf fell into his water. The tea then was boiled together, when the
Emperor, who happened to be a scientist too, noticed that the water became so
tempting, exhilarating and refreshing. From that time on, he never drank a cup
of water without boiling it with the tea leaf. And that accidental falling of a
tea leaf gave way for the birth of traditional drinking of tea.
Camellia Sinensis
Tea is a
beverage using dried leaves from a tree called Camellia Sinensis. People often
thought that each type of tea came from different plants, but in reality, it
all rooted to the plant of Camellia Sinensis.
Teas made
from herbs, flowers or fruits are not actually teas. They do not contain
Camellia Sinensis at all, and the caffeine content and the health benefits are
not as same as with the real tea that came from the plant of Camellia Sinensis.
These are called as “Tisanes”, often associated or called as tea simply because
the method of steeping is also involved in its preparation.
Types of
Tea
Generally,
all kinds of tea originated from a single plant called Camellia Sinensis, these
type of tea were differentiated after the processes it had undergone. The three
basic types of tea are as follows:
Green Tea
It is
steamed, rolled out on mats and heated
Oolong Tea
This type
is the hybrid of green and black tea. To produce this type, leaves are wilted,
withered, rolled out and semi-fermented.
Black Tea
This type of tea has the highest caffeine content. Its leaves are fully fermented. Fermentation refers to the breaking down of chlorophyll which makes the leaves black (science calls this enzymatic oxidation).
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| Green Tea |
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| Oolong Tea |
Most of
the greatest discoveries of the world happened unexpectedly, just like with the
history of one of the world’s well loved beverage- TEA. 2737 BC, Sheng Nung, a
Chinese Emperor, was boiling the water he was about to drink, when suddenly, a
tea leaf fell into his water. The tea then was boiled together, when the
Emperor, who happened to be a scientist too, noticed that the water became so
tempting, exhilarating and refreshing. From that time on, he never drank a cup
of water without boiling it with the tea leaf. And that accidental falling of a
tea leaf gave way for the birth of traditional drinking of tea.
Tea is a
beverage using dried leaves from a tree called Camellia Sinensis. People often
thought that each type of tea came from different plants, but in reality, it
all rooted to the plant of Camellia Sinensis.
Generally,
all kinds of tea originated from a single plant called Camellia Sinensis, these
type of tea were differentiated after the processes it had undergone. The three
basic types of tea are as follows:
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