History of Tea
Tea was originally a product of China. It was China who introduced tea to the world. Later, tea lovers mixed it and blended it to make different variants. Tea became so popular in East Asia that traders from China to Tibet and other countries started using dried and fermented tea leaves shaped into tea bricks as currency. It is just like using salt bricks currency in Ethiopia, East Africa.
The Western world was unaware of the magical qualities of tea until 1610 when the Dutch brought tea to the country for the first time. Later, England also welcomed it somewhere in 1658—the popularity of the tea multiplied for its freshness and health benefits. Tea was one of the beverages of England’s American colonies. Some figures published online state that English consumed about two and a half tea and seventeen pounds of sugar annually by 1800. At that time, some believed that sugar was added to black tea to enhance its taste, which ultimately led to an increased demand for black tea over green tea.
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