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The main tea regionsThe best known tea producing regions are India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia, Kenya, Japan, and Taiwan but
it is also produced in Bangladesh, Uganda, Malawi, Turkey, Iran, Argentina and Cornwall!
ChinaFact fileWhere it all began! All the tea in China amounts to the greatest range of teas produced by any of the world's tea producing countries. The hundreds of varieties are categorised by leaf shape, leaf size and the name of the district. The nothern half of China is simply too cold for tea to be grown so all tea production takes place in the southern half. The tea producing regions are:
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People have been drinking tea in China for over 1800 years
The Chinese fell so in love with tea that at one point there was a law forbidding the export of tea from China
A 1997 case-control study in Shanghai found regular consumption of green tea to be associated with significant
(between 12 and 53 percent) reductions in risk for cancers of the colon, rectum and pancreas
In Asian cultures, green tea is found in many forms, including gum, candy, ice cream, bread and other foods
Certain teas like wu-long tea can be brewed multiple times
All tea - black tea, green tea, wu long tea - comes from the same plant, Camellia sinensis
In early China tea was eaten as a vegetable. It was cooked in a soup and the leaves were eaten
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