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Black tea is a tea made from leaves more heavily oxidized than the white, green, and oolong varieties. It is generally stronger in flavor and contains more caffeine than more lightly oxidized teas.In Chinese and culturally related languages, black tea is known as red tea (紅茶, Mandarin hóngchá, Japanese kocha), perhaps a more accurate description of the color of the liquid.
While green tea usually loses its flavor within a year, black tea preserves its flavor for several years (over fifty years in the special case of pu-erh tea). It has thus long been an article of trade, and compressed bricks of black tea even served as a form of de facto currency in Mongolia, Tibet and Siberia into the 19th century. Black tea was traditionally the only tea known to western culture; though green tea has been catching on somewhat in the U.S., black still accounts for over ninety percent of all tea sold in the West.
The term 'black tea' is also used in the UK to describe a cup of tea without milk, adding milk to tea being the accepted practice.
1 Types of black tea
Generally unblended black teas are named after the region of production well known for their salient characters.
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- AssamAssam is a black tea named after the region of its production ( Assam, India). This tea is known for its body, briskness, malty flavor, and strong, bright color. Geography The tea plant ( Camellia sinensis var assamica) is grown in the lowlands of Assam,: AssamAssam Motto Land of the Red River and Blue Hills Freedom from British Rule August 15, 1947 Language Assamese Bodo Karbi Capital Dispur Governor Ajai Singh Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Area 78,438 km² Population Total (2001) Density 26,414,322 286/km² Curren, IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy.
- Ceylon : Sri LankaThe Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (known as Ceylon before 1972) is a tropical island nation off the southeast coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known in ancient times as Lanka Lankadweepa (meaning "Resplendent Land" in Sanskrit), Taprobane an
- Darjeeling: West BengalCapital Kolkata Governor Viren J. Shah Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Area 88,752 km² Population Total Density Ranked 4th in India 80,221,171 ( 2001) 904/km² Literacy rate: Total Male Female 69. 22% Urbanization: 28. 03% West Bengal is a state in t, IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy.
- KeemunKeemun is a black Chinese tea with a winey and fruity taste, with depth and complexity. Keemun is produced in the Quimen precinct of Anhui province in central China. Keemun has a relatively short history. It was first produced in 1875 by a failed civil se: ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute
- Nilgiri: Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu, India
- Earl Grey tea
