Fun Facts About Tea & Tea Drinkers To Impress Your Friends ...

Fun facts about tea

The British are well known as a nation of tea drinkers, and it’s true, we do drink a lot of tea, but in Turkey they drink twice as much tea per person as the British! Lets discover some fun facts about tea ...

Here are some other fun facts about tea that may surprise you ...

Did You Know ... 

• Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the World after water.

• Tea is grown all over the world, but the largest tea producing countries by volume are China 43%, India 22%, Kenya 8%, Sri Lanka 5%, and Turkey 5%.

• The biggest global importers of tea are the European Union 18%, Russia 9%, and Pakistan 9%.

• The top tea consuming countries are: Turkey, Libya, Morocco, Ireland, UK, and China. The average person in Turkey drinks over twice as much tea per year as in the UK.

• All tea comes from cultivars of the Camellia sinensis plant. Whether it’s black, green, white, oolong, or fermented tea, it all comes from the same species of plants. Just like red wine and white wine come from different varieties of the grape plant.

• Different types of tea (Black, Green etc), are produced by altering the drying and processing methods once the leaves are harvested.

• Only tea made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant is actually tea. Other hot beverages such as Rooibos, Mate, Fruit blends, & Herbal drinks are not strictly tea. In our shop we call these 'Herbal & Fruit Infusions' ...

• Dry tea leaves contain more caffeine by weight than dry coffee beans! … However, more coffee by weight is used to make an individual hot drink and therefore a cup of coffee is higher in caffeine than a cup of tea.

• Once consumed the caffeine in coffee is released into the body quickly acting as a stimulant, and resulting in a quick burst of energy, typically followed by a crash. The caffeine in tea is released more slowly thanks to the effect of L-theanine, a natural amino acid found in the tea leaf that slows down the release of caffeine into the blood-stream. The effect is similar to eating a bar of chocolate for a quick energy burst, versus eating a bowl of porridge. Drinking tea releases energy more slowly, but over a longer period.

• It’s a challenge, but tea can be grown in the UK! … There are currently artisan tea growers in Cornwall, Perth Scotland, Lincolnshire, Northern Ireland, and at Peterston Tea Estate here in South Wales. 

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