Tea: Its Origin And Production

Originally, the tea plant from China. Its leaves and flowers is prepared with hot water, a tasty brew, the tea. The tea cultivation soon spread to other regions that offered the shrubs suitable growth conditions, including Japan and India. will satisfy your hunger But in Turkey, Russia, Georgia and Brazil tea is grown. Each country has specific teas, with very specific characteristics. Tea can be harvested up to three times a year (spring, summer), autumn. The harvest time will decide on the flavors. In most cases, the sensitive leaves or young shoots of women are picked by hand. A job for which you need a lot of experience and instinct. Of course there is also the possibility of harvesting machine for tea. These teas are of low quality and are mainly used for cheap tea. What types of tea are there There are many different kinds of tea. Some are presented: * White Tea: White tea is hardly fermented, so that the fineHairs on the underside of the tea leaf to keep their white-silver color. Only young shoots are plucked by hand and nachsortiert. Thus there is a very valuable type of tea, so is the White Tea also known as “Emperor of the Tees”. * Yellow Tea: The yellow tea is only produced in China, slightly fermentierete specialty. The leaves of wild tea plants are harvested and dried for two hours after they are picked at about 200 C, then cooled and then twice more heated (150 C, 200 C). * Green Tea: It comes from China, Japan and parts of Asia. Once harvested, it is either dried in pans over a fire or treated with hot steam. Both processes have the same goal: to destroy the enzymes in the leaves, resulting in a fermentation. Green tea is not fermented so. * Oolong tea: This tea is Halbfermentiert, when the leaves are fermented (which can be recognized because) they leave, the fermentation is stopped by heating. Oolong tea is alsobetween green tea and black tea. * Black tea: Black tea comes from the East Asia. He will, in contrast to the white tea, finished a long time after drying. * Flavored tea: In Europe, the rising popularity of flavored black or green teas. The tea is enriched with different flavors. Popular flavors include fruity notes such as cherry or passion fruit, citrus flavors such as orange, lemon and bergamot (the famous Earl Gray tea its owes its incomparable taste) and natural spices such as vanilla, anise, ginger and cinnamon. The closer the cold season, the more popular are the many aromatic hot drinks that hide behind the collective name of tea. Whether with or without flavorings or alcohol refinements: teas are tasty and result in winter warmth from the inside.