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List of Chinese teas
List of Chinese teas: inventory of Chinese teas (中国茶叶) by the six-category classification of green, white, yellow, oolong, red (hongcha) and dark tea, with famous named teas like Longjing, Tieguanyin and pu'er, GI protections, and 2025 production of 3.92 million tonnes.
List of tea companies
List of tea companies: an inventory of tea brand owners, producers, and traders, including Unilever (Lipton, PG Tips), Lipton Teas & Infusions, Tata Consumer Products (Tetley), Twinings (1706), ITO EN, McLeod Russel, and national leaders in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the UK.
Longjing tea
Longjing tea (龙井茶, Dragon Well tea), especially West Lake Longjing (西湖龙井), is a flat pan-fired green tea from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, with GI-protected Xihu, Qiantang, and Yuezhou zones, Qianlong's 18 imperial tea trees, and hand-fired spring harvests.
Maghrebi mint tea
Maghrebi mint tea (atay, Moroccan mint tea) is a sweet green tea of gunpowder tea, fresh spearmint (nana), and sugar, poured from height; a hospitality ritual across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia since the 18th century.
Masala chai (मसाला चाय)
Masala chai (मसाला चाय), Indian spiced milk tea, also called chai; boiled black tea with milk, sugar and variable spices. A 20th-century Indian adaptation of a British colonial plantation commodity, now a national symbol.
Matcha
Matcha (抹茶) is Japanese powdered green tea made from shade-grown tencha leaves that are steamed, dried unrolled, and stone-milled to 1-20 μm powder; whisked in the tea ceremony since Eisai's 1191 introduction, now a $4.3 billion global market with unregulated "ceremonial grade" labeling.
Matcha latte
Matcha latte: a Western café drink of whisked Japanese powdered green tea (matcha) with steamed milk and sweetener, hot or iced. Caffeine 19–44 mg/g of powder; "ceremonial grade" is unregulated; demand boom tripled tencha prices.
Mate (drink)
Mate (yerba mate) is a caffeinated South American infusion of Ilex paraguariensis leaves, drunk from a gourd with a bombilla; about 80 mg caffeine per cup, high in polyphenols, central to Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil.
Matsudaira Harusato
Matsudaira Harusato, known as Fumai (1751–1818), was the seventh lord of Matsue domain and a leading late Edo period tea master who founded the Fumai-ryū school.
Milk tea
Milk tea (奶茶) is tea combined with milk, spanning Mongolian salted tea, Indian chai, Hong Kong silk-stocking milk tea, and Taiwanese bubble tea; Hong Kong's version is a listed intangible cultural heritage.
Oolong (乌龙茶)
Oolong (乌龙茶), also called blue tea, is a partially oxidized Camellia sinensis tea made by withering, tumbling, partial oxidation, fixing, rolling, and drying. Main producers are Fujian, Guangdong, and Taiwan; oxidation spans roughly 10–80%.
PG Tips
PG Tips, a British black tea brand launched in 1930 by Brooke Bond (PG from Pre-Gest-Tee), famous for its 1956-2002 chimp adverts and 1996 pyramid bag; owned since 2022 by Lipton Teas and Infusions under CVC Capital Partners.
Poppy tea
Poppy tea, or poppy seed tea, is a homemade opioid drink made by rinsing unwashed Papaver somniferum seeds in cold water or lemon juice. FDA reports 11 deaths, variable morphine content, and a planned 2026 action level.
Pu'er tea
Pu'er tea (普洱茶) is a fermented tea from Yunnan's large-leaf tea plant, made as raw (sheng) or pile-fermented ripe (shou) tea, historically traded to Tibet on the Ancient Tea-Horse Road and defined by standard GB/T 22111-2008.
Rooibos
Rooibos (red bush) is a caffeine-free South African herbal tea from Aspalathus linearis, endemic to the Cederberg; sold fermented (red) and unfermented (green), rich in aspalathin, with limited human health evidence.
Samovar (самовар)
The samovar (самовар) is a heated metal urn used in Russia and neighboring countries to boil water and keep it hot for tea, first recorded in 1746.
Sen no Rikyū (千利休)
Sen no Rikyū (千利休), also Sen Rikyu, was a 16th-century Japanese tea master from Sakai who perfected wabi-cha and served Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Sencha (煎茶)
Sencha (煎茶) is Japan's most common green tea, made by steaming, rolling, and drying fresh leaves. Created by Nagatani Sōen in 1738; distinct from shaded gyokuro and powdered matcha; output declining amid the matcha boom.
Sweet tea
Sweet tea: black iced tea sweetened with sugar while brewing, a Southern US staple. Oldest printed recipe 1879; 1904 World's Fair invention story is legend; about 7 teaspoons sugar per 12 oz.
Tapioca pearl
Tapioca pearl (粉圓, boba): chewy ball of cassava starch, brown sugar, and water boiled until gummy; the signature topping of Taiwanese bubble tea, invented in 1980s Taiwan, with black and white varieties and popping-boba alternatives.
Tea (meal)
Tea (meal): a meal featuring tea as the beverage, also called afternoon tea or high tea. Attributed to the Duchess of Bedford in the 1840s; in northern England, Australia, and New Zealand it means the cooked evening meal.
Tea (茶)
Tea (茶), from Camellia sinensis, is the world's most consumed drink after water. Six types (green, black, white, oolong, dark, yellow) differ by oxidation; ~7 million tonnes produced yearly, led by China and India.
Tea bag
Tea bag (also tea filter): small permeable pouch of filter paper or mesh holding 2–3 g of tea for single-cup brewing. Invented in 1901 prototype (Lawson–Molaren), popularized by Sullivan 1908; 96% of UK tea market by 2007.
Tea culture
Tea culture (茶文化), the customs, arts, and philosophy surrounding tea, originated in China: Tang-era Lu Yu's Classic of Tea systematized it, Song whisked tea and Ming loose-leaf steeping evolved it, and UNESCO inscribed China's traditional tea practices in 2022.
Tea in the United Kingdom
Tea in the United Kingdom: the national drink since its 1650s arrival from China via the Dutch East India Company. About 100 million cups are drunk daily, 97.5% from tea bags; Catherine of Braganza, smuggling, rationing, and afternoon versus high tea shaped its history.
Tea leaf grading
Tea leaf grading sorts manufactured black tea by leaf size, shape and appearance, not quality: whole leaf, broken, fannings and dust, with orthodox codes like OP and FTGFOP and separate CTC and ISO 11286 particle-size systems.
Tea processing
Tea processing converts Camellia sinensis leaves into green, white, yellow, oolong, black, or dark tea via plucking, withering, rolling, enzymatic or microbial oxidation, and drying; oxidation degree and theaflavin-thearubigin balance distinguish the types.
Tea production in Sri Lanka
Tea production in Sri Lanka, or the Ceylon Tea industry, is the country's leading export. Established in 1867, it employs nearly 1 million people and contributes about 2% of the GDP.
Teahouse
Teahouse (茶馆, chaguan; 茶室, chashitsu): an establishment where tea and refreshments are served, central to East Asian social life. Chinese teahouses date to the Song Dynasty as information and leisure hubs; Japanese chashitsu host the tea ceremony; British tearooms emerged from 1894.
Teh tarik
Teh tarik (拉茶, pulled tea) is the frothy milk tea of Malaysian and Singaporean mamak stalls: strong black tea with condensed and evaporated milk, poured repeatedly between vessels to cool, mix, and foam it; UNESCO-listed in 2024.