Courtesy: Organic certification for tea Botanical origin Tea plant (Camellia sinensis) from Köhler’s Medicinal Plants, 1897 Tea plants are native to East Asia and probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northern Myanmar. Chinese (small-leaf) type tea (C. sinensis var. sinensis) may have originated in southern China possibly with hybridization of unknown wild tea relatives. However, […]
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Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub (bush) native to East Asia.[3] After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world.[4] There are many different types of tea; some, like Darjeeling and Chinese greens, have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour,[5] while others have vastly different profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral or grassy notes.
Courtesy: Organic certification for tea ea 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 probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northern Myanmar. Tea is also rarely made from the leaves of Camellia taliensis. After plain water, tea is the most widely consumed drink in […]
Courtesy: Organic certification for tea Numi Organic Tea is a privately owned triple bottom line social enterprise based in Oakland, California. Numi is known for its assortment of organic and fair trade certified teas and herbal “teasans”. The company was founded in 1999 by brother and sister, Ahmed Rahim and Reem Hassani. The founders named the company “Numi” after the citrusy, Middle Eastern dried lime tea they […]
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