Orthodox Black Tea Manufacturing Process

Tea Manufacturing  Tea is a product with different colour, taste, smell as well as different shapes in visual appearance based on its type or variety, but its processing methods are almost similar with minor variations. However, the quality and the characteristics of the final product basically depend on the contents of the leaf where large number of chemical constituents is present in fresh leaf. The most important group of chemical compounds...

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HISTORY OF TEA

Tea Tea is an evergreen bush of the genus Camellia, from south-eastern Asia from whose leaves, subject to adequate preparation, an infusion of the same name is prepared. Chinese tea bushes (Camellia sinensis), Assam tea tree (Camellia assamica) and their hybrids – Georgian and Sinhalese tea are the most popular. Tea is grown not only in Asia but also in many other tropical countries. The main manufacturers of tea are: China, India, Sri Lanka,...

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Tea as a Beverage

Consumption of tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage in China, in the eighth century (Grigg, 2003). Tea is an evergreen bush of the genus Camellia, from south-eastern Asia, whose leaves were subject to adequate preparation with only the most aromatic, young, top two leaves and the unopened leaf bud. Up to 80,000 hand-plucked shoots were needed to produce one pound of top-grade tea. The production of tea has high labour-intensive...

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