Believe it or not, the second most consumed beverage, behind water is in fact tea. Every country has a different way of drinking it, but in all its forms, tea is a huge part of today's polite and health conscious society.
A true tea is made from the leaves of only one species of plant: camellia sinensis. this includes the four main types of tea- white, green black, and oolong. Many of you are familiar with the more common forms of green and black tea, but white and oolong ? Let me tell you more about them all...
- GREEN TEA
Green tea originates from china due to much medical hype, it has become more and more popular in the west. It has in fact been used in china as a medical for at least 4,000 years.
- WHITE TEA
White tea is specialty of the Chinese province, Fujjan and is the least common of the four main types. It is wholly unprocessed and so has a more grassy taste to it than green tea, but it may in fact be healthier. These teas have the lowest amount of caffeine.