Tea

Tea Tea is created by the plant Camellia sinensis and has been used in 1700 years. It was in the old China tea gets used to medicine. The plant comes to Europe 1559. In the beginning of eighteen’s century tea dealing got dominate, after that could also “usually people” drink tea.

Over two hundred years the Chinese kept the secret how to produce and create tea. The most important commercial goods that used to yield tea were silver.

In Sweden Carl von linné tried farming tea, but he failed. He recommended instead native plants like kungsmynta, origanum vulgare.

In Boston in the Brittish-American colony Massachusetts Bay 1773 a protest action was held against the English government tea handle politics (the Boston Tea Party).The auction was one thing who led to the North American revolutionary war and eventually - 1783 - United States full independence.

The four biggest produce producing countries today is china, India and Sri Lanka. The most common tea here in Sweden is black tea but in China it’s called red tea because of the colour.

Herb tea, smoked tea and flower tea is name of few kind of tea. It can become in different way green-, red-, Oolong-, black-, white-, yellow- tea. Generally you usually say that three grams per cup is normal. Biggest different is the temperature on the water. Lesser oxidized, finer quality you get. Tea contains caffeine, black tea contains 400 milligram/litter. Comparatively with coffee have coffee 800 milligram/litter caffeine.

Written by Albin "labbe" mannen Lindholm