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, coffee, soft drinks, and juice. eighty percent of tea sold is bottled iced tea, however: of the remaining %, supermarket-quality tea bags take the lions's share. sales of gourmet tea are still quite small. all tea comes from the camellia sinensis plant, a warm-weather evergreen (with one slight exception
: in the assam region of northeast india, the local variation, camellia assamica was found to produce finer tea in that environment). whether tea is black, oolong, green or white depends on how the fresh leaves of the tea plant are processed after they are plucked, and their level of contact with oxygen...
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