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Tea & Weight Loss
What is Tea? |
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Tea Types Defined
... for tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favored beverage of the intellectual. ------ Thomas De Quincey (1785 - 1859) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
There's only one species of tea plant, Camellia sinensis, which can grow in dense jungles to Himalayan hilltops. The plant may vary in size and appearance in response to its environment; it may acquire different characteristics due to soil type, but it's all the same plant. The difference as far as tea drinkers are concerned is in the processing. The processing that occurs after the leaf is picked determines the type, white, green, oolong or black that is produced. All other teas, not made from the Camellia plant, are called tisanes. The chart below depicts the processing that determines the tea type.
Tea GradesTea grades, an attempt to rank teas, are varied by nation and grower. They have very little to do with quality of tea. Some of the more commonly used terms, by no means a complete list, are detailed here:
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