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  • Welcome to Drinks Tube I'm Becky from Talk Becky Talk and today I have a guide for you,

  • all about tea. We're going to look at what tea is, where it comes from and why it's so

  • amazing. Because if you haven't already guessed, I love it. So what is tea? Well tea is a drink

  • commonly made from infusing curred tea leaves with hot water, it originated in China around,

  • five thousand, yes five thousand years ago, but luckily now it's spread all around the

  • world. You can get tea in tea bags, you can get loose leaf tea and people tend to get

  • pretty passionate about it. It has on average less than half the caffeine of coffee per

  • cup. It's got so many health benefits, it's hydrating, there are loads of varieties and

  • it's low in calories. Amazing. All tea leaves come from the same plant. The camellia Sinensis.

  • Commonly known as the tea plant. It's native to Asia but now it's grown all around the

  • world. Herbal tea doesn't actually contain Camellia Sinensis so it's not strictly a tea

  • but we'll come back to that. There are thousands of types of tea I've probably collected a

  • load of them but five main styles. Black, white, green, oolong and Pu-erh. These styles

  • differentiate because of the processing of the leaves and the oxidation. The types however

  • completely depend on the growing climate, even year by year. The first one black tea,

  • is the most popular, it accounts for 72% of tea drunk right accorss the world and it is

  • especially popular in the U.K and the U.S. You'll find it in everyday tea bags just like

  • this and the varieties include things like Darjeeling, Lapsang Souchang, Assam and Ceylon.

  • Now darjeeling is known as the champagne of the tea world it tastes amazing and you can

  • have this at any point in the day. This one Lapsang Souchong, this is one of my favourites

  • but it does divide people it's quite an acquired taste. They make it by smoking the tea leaves

  • over bamboo and that gives it such a deep smoky flavour. They say Winston Churchill

  • used to love drinking this with a scotch. Now Ceylon and Assam are a match made in heaven,

  • blend them together and you have got yourself a pretty amazing English Breakfast Tea. This

  • is one of the most popular teas in the U.K and is perfect first thing in the morning.

  • Just for the record Earl Grey is a flavoured black tea. That for instance is blended with

  • bergamot orange. Black tea contains anti oxidants like flavanoids and tannings which help to

  • deactivate damaging molecules that could play a role in the development of cancer. Now white

  • teas, these are actually the leased processed that we've talked about from all of those

  • styles. These are actually made from young silver buds. They dry out in the sunshine

  • and when the farmers pick them they'll loose those leaves which means they can be used

  • for other teas and that's why white teas are more rare and expensive. The two main varieties

  • are silver needle and white peony. Now true white tea is only made in Fujian China. Now

  • you can tell white tea because it's got a silvery and fuzzy appearance and when you

  • brew it, it's got such a mild flavour and a really pale look. Next up, green tea, this

  • is the most popular tea drunk in Asia, and accounts for 26% across the world. But really,

  • green tea is most well known for it's health benefits. It's associated with lower blood

  • pressure, healthier blood cholesterol and that all helps your heart. There are two main

  • styles of green tea, Chinese and Japanese. Now Chinese is often heated over a fire which

  • gives it a really nice toasty flavour, that is perfect if you're a first time tea drinker.

  • Japanese however is usually steamed so that kind of gives it a real grassy, vegetable

  • taste. Now, whilst we're on the subject of green tea, take a look at this, this is actually

  • Matcha tea. You may well of heard of it, it's becoming so popular at the moment. This is

  • actually a powdered Japanese green tea, now it's associated with reduced food intake so

  • could potentially help weight loss. Next up Oolong tea, this literally translates as black

  • dragon. It's a traditional Chinese tea, it sits half way between an unoxidised green

  • tea and a fully oxidised black tea. Now as teas come this is actually pretty complex.

  • It's full bodied it's got a really sweet aroma to it and you can get so many different varieties

  • of flavour in this. Now last, but definitely not least, Pu-erh, this is actually a fermented

  • tea and it's produced in China, take a look at this. This is what it looks like when it

  • comes out of the packet. Totally different to the other teas. It actually goes through

  • a really complex kind of stage of fermentation and it's got such a strong and earthy taste

  • to it. This actually can taste better the older the tea gets which is really strange

  • for teas. This is so good at any time of the day, you have to try one of these if you come

  • across them. Now herbal tea, I told you we'd come back to this. Now for all you herbal

  • tea lovers it doesn't have any tea leaves in it. Any at all, not even a teeny bit so

  • it's not strictly a tea, it's a bit of a cheat but it tastes delicious. It's actually made

  • from mixing herbs and spices and dried fruit to hot water. It tastes delicious and it's

  • caffeine free. You can get things like lemon, ginger, raspberry, peppermint for example

  • is amazing for your digestive system and while we're on the subject take a look at this.

  • Rooibos, or redbush tea, isn't a tea either. This is actually a native plant from South

  • Africa and it produces such a delicious reddy brown infusion. So there you go that's what

  • tea is. I hope you enjoy my little tea lesson and are starting to love tea just as much

  • as I do. If you want to watch more click on this video right now, that's my tea infusion

  • video made with green tea it's so delicious you're going to love it. Most importantly,

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  • got videos for you and I just know you're going to love it. Tea time for me now guys,

  • Bye

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