Tea is the most popular drink in the world besides plain water. There are thousands of 1 types of tea available. All tea comes from the Camellia Sinensis bush—also 2 as the Tea Plant. The leaves and buds of this plant are picked several times a year, usually by hand. After picking, the tea is processed into black tea, oolong tea, green tea or 3 tea.
Black tea was invented in China in the Ming Dynasty as a way to 4 tea fresh when it was being transported long distances. As tea has to travel a long distance to reach places such as Britain, Canada and Australia, it is not 5 that Westerners drink mostly black tea. However, the majority of the world drinks green tea.
Herbal tea is prepared in the same way as regular tea but is not really tea. This is 6 it contains herbs, fruits, spices, etc. but no leaves from the Tea Plant. To truly be tea, the leaves must come from this plant. All tea naturally 7 caffeine, which comes from the tea leaves. Antioxidants are the properties found in some foods that reduce your risk of 8cancer and heart disease. All regular tea has a lot of antioxidants.
Decafieinated tea is regular tea (usually green or black) that has been processed to remove the caffeine. In recent years, organic tea has become 9, too. This is tea that comes from plants that have been grown without the use of any chemicals. People believe that it tastes better and is healthier, but sometimes it costs more than non-organic tea. This is because the size of the crops is often 10.
