Tea blending and additives
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Tea blending is the act of blending different teas to produce a final product that differs in flavor from the original tea used. This occurs chiefly with black tea, which is blended to make most tea b
Twinings Lady Grey tea which is a flavored tea blend containing bergamot oil, citrus peels and flowers
Chinese Jasmine tea, a popular scented tea in East Asia. The tea leaves are scented with jasmine flowers. Traditionally, the flowers are not included in the final blend, which retains the scent in the leaves.
Black tea sorted by characteristic and quality in a sample tray at a Sri Lankan tea factory. Various whole dried leaves, partial leaves, and tea dusts are used in combination to produce different types of blended teas
A Flowering tea, green tea with jasmine flowers.
Pu'er tea
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Pu'er or pu-erh is a variety of fermented tea traditionally produced in Yunnan Province, China. Pu-erh tea is made from the leaves of the Yunnan tea plant Camellia sinensis var. assamica,which is a sp
A lump of royal tribute pu'er tea produced during the Guangxu Emperor period (1875–1908) was collected in Forbidden City and moved to Pu'er City Museum in 2007.
Shú pu'er tea, shúchá, brewed from a brick
Relatively young raw pu'er; note the grey and dark green tones