Tea processing
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Tea processing is the method in which the leaves from the tea plant Camellia sinensis are transformed into the dried leaves for brewing tea.
A Korean bhikkhuni pan roasting tea leaves for fixation
Steaming tea leaves for fixation
An 1850 British engraving showing tea cultivation and tea leaf processing.
Freshly picked tea leaves on a tea farm in Kenya.
Green tea
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Green tea is a type of tea made from the leaves and buds of the Camellia sinensis that have not undergone the withering and oxidation process that creates oolong teas and black teas. Green tea origina
Tea processing
…date. This processing method was perfected near the end of the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) and produced a dried tea that would be classified today as green tea and quite similar to modern Japanese sencha. For consumption, dried tea leaves were either decocted with water and other herbs, or ground into a powder…
The appearance of green tea in three different stages (from left to right): the infused leaves, the dry leaves, and the liquid.
Longjing, a green tea from Zhejiang, China
Tea field in Boseong, South Korea
The tea fields in the foothills of Gorreana, Azores Islands, Portugal: the only European region other than Georgia to support green tea production.