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Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which originated in the borderlands of south-western China, north-east India and northern Myanmar. Tea is also made, but rarely, from the leaves of Camellia taliensis. After plain water, tea is the most widely consumed drink in the world. There are many types of tea; some have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour, while others have profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral, or grassy notes. Tea has a stimulating effect in hu
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Tea is a beverage made by steeping the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant in hot water, and it is the second most widely consumed drink in the world after plain water. The drink comes in many varieties with different flavor profiles—from cooling and bitter to sweet, nutty, floral, or grassy—and has a stimulating effect on humans.
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Key facts
- Beverage.name
- Tea
- Beverage.type
- Hot or cold beverage
- Beverage.image
- Longjing tea steeping in gaiwan.jpg
- Beverage.caption
- Longjing green tea being infused in a gaiwan
- Beverage.origin
- China
- Beverage.introduced
- First recorded in China in 59 BC, possibly originated earlier
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Research
53,991 papers- Green Tea (Camellia sinensis): A Review of Its Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicology.ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Zhao T, Li C, Wang S et al.DOI: 10.3390/molecules27123909
- Tea Polyphenols in Promotion of Human Health.