Tea is an aromatic beverage made from the cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant and it is also commonly used to refer to the plant itself. I will also be covering tisanes (herbal teas) which are any teas not mader from the camellia sinensis plant.

Tea drinking started in China a very long time ago, it is traditionally thought that tea was discovered by the second emperor shen nung in 2737 BC. But it was in 350 AD that the first description of drinking tea is written in a Chinese dictionary.

Tea is now consumed Worldwide and is popular in china, Japan, india, morocco, Ireland, the UK and many other countries.