Stevia Tea

Tea is known by everyone, but not everyone knows how healthy and tasty as how good tea can be. After tea, water is the most consumed beverage in the world. In the Asian world tea is more popular and more important in the Western world.

What most people in the west do not know is that the original is made from a base of tea Camella Sinensis plant. Today, tea word is also used for extraction of other plants, leaves, herbs, spices and natural things. So, there are thousands of different teas and herbal combinations, but you can find varieties at least six more original tea: green tea, white, yellow, black, Oolong and Pu-erh. Some of them may sound strange, but the tea is oolong tea for example especially in the restaurant served Chinese general.

As already said, the tea has a position of any other in the Western world compared to the Asian world. In the West, mostly in tea bags is that you put in your cup. After waiting some time, you throw the tea bag and by far the tea is ready. As this tea can also be good, not like a tea in her hand very good Asian style. This tea is not made of tea bags. You have a pot with herbs and leaves in it and water comes in a pot outside. The first ore two teas made from the same plants are generally discarded, because tea gets better with tracks of extraction. Unlike tea tea bags, you can enjoy a real flavor. It is therefore not surprising that the tea houses, restaurants for the sole purpose of drinking tea are widespread in the East.

There is a popular Chinese legend about the legendary Chinese emperor, Shen Nong, who was also said to be the inventor of agriculture and Chinese medicine. When he drank a bowl of hot water around 2737 BC some leaves were blown into the water. After that, the water has changed color and is Shennong curious. When he drank beer, he was surprised by the aroma and taste.

Whether a true basis of this and other legends or not, it shows that tea is known in Asia for at least a very long time when compared to Europe, etc. So the first record Tea in most Western writing is in the text of an Arab traveler to the year 879, who reported on operations in Canton (Guangzhou), capital of Guangdong Province, China.

From there, there were many passengers who mentioned tea, but it did not seem one of them has any samples home. So it took until the early 17th century, when ships of the Dutch East India Company made some green tea leaves to Amsterdam. Around the same time, the Russian czar Michael offered me tea as a gift from China. Although it took a while, what are the roots of tea spread throughout the world.

Today, there are several different sorts of tea, especially many varieties of tea no tea factory original. Variants of indigenous South Americans, as they have developed without the influence of tea in Asia, are very interesting: for instance stevia tea, made of the plant Stevia rebaudiana really sweet.

You see there are so many different types of tea, it's up to you to try something new ...