What is the differance between green tea and black tea?!
What is the differance between green tea and black tea?
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Green tea and black tea come from the same plant, but green tea leaves are less processed than black tea. (Black tea is fermented but green tea is not.) Green tea retains many chemicals of the fresh leaf.
Actually green tea is green and black tea is (you guessed it) both taste different. Black tea is actually the stronger of the two. It is said that green tea enhances your sex drive
color.
That's like saying "do you know the difference between a Elephant and a loaf of bread?"
See if I send you to the store!
Sorry that just reminded me of that joke. I am sure you do.
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All tea comes from the "Camellia sinensis", an evergreen shrub that may grow up to 60 feet in the wild. When cultivated for harvest the tea bushes are kept to a height of about three feet. There are over 3000 varieties of tea each with its own specific characteristics. The naming and growing of teas has many similarities to wine. Just as Bordeaux wine is named after the Bordeaux region in France, Assam is named after the Assam region in India, and Keemun is named after the Keemun region of China. Like wine, tea comes from one bush, and where the tea is grown, the climate, soil conditions, and how the tea is processed, determines the flavor characteristics of the tea.
Tea is harvested after each flush - the sprouting of the top two leaves and bud. The top two leaves and bud are hand plucked and then processed into any of the four types of tea, which are Black, Green, Oolong, and White.
Black tea is withered, fully oxidized and dried. Black tea yields a hearty, amber-colored brew. Some of the popular black teas include English Breakfast, and Darjeeling.
Green tea skips the oxidizing step. It is simply withered and then dried. It has a more delicate taste and is pale green / golden in color. Learn more about Green Tea.
Oolong tea, popular in China, is withered, partially oxidized, and dried. Oolong is a cross between black and green tea in color and taste.
White tea is the least processed. A very rare tea from China, White tea is not oxidized or rolled, but simply withered and dried by steaming.
The main chemical substances in tea are essential oils, caffeine, and polyphenols (mistakenly known by many people as tannins). The essential oils give us the aroma of the tea, the caffeine stimulates the central nervous system, and the polyphenols account for the much publicized antioxidant and anti-disease properties.
Tea is not to be confused with herbal infusions. Herbal infusions are packaged like tea, infused like tea, and enjoyed like tea, however the herbs do not come from the camellia sinensis bush and therefore are not teas. Herbal infusions are made of grasses like lemongrass, barks like cinnamon, fruits like orange peel, flowers like chamomile and hibiscus, and many other botanicals.
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Green tea is produced by lightly steaming the fresh-cut black tea leaf; to produce black tea, the leaves are oxidized. During oxidation, many of the "polyphenol" substances -- compounds with potent antioxidant and anticancer properties -- are destroyed. Green tea, on the other hand, is very high in polyphenols.
But taste oolong tea, strong but nice
green tea is non fermented tea and black teas are 100% fully fermented!