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Where Tea Comes From: The World's Great Tea Regions
A clear, honest field guide to the places that grow the world's tea — China, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Taiwan, Kenya, and beyond — and how region, elevation, cultivar, and craft end up in your cup.
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Tea and Health: What the Research Actually Says (2026)
An honest, carefully sourced look at what studies do — and don't — show about tea and the compounds inside it: caffeine, L-theanine, catechins, polyphenols, and tannins.
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The 6 Types of Tea: A Complete Guide to White, Green, Yellow, Oolong, Black & Dark
Every true tea comes from one plant, Camellia sinensis. What separates them isn't the leaf, but how much it's allowed to oxidize and how it's processed. Here's the whole spectrum, honestly explained.
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Tea Glossary: 65+ Tea Terms, Clearly Defined (2026)
Camellia sinensis, oxidation, CTC, flush, gongfu, FTGFOP, L-theanine — the working vocabulary of tea, defined plainly and accurately.
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Tea Statistics 2026: The Definitive Data Hub on Global Production, Consumption & the US Market
A current, fully-sourced reference on how much tea the world grows and drinks, who leads in production and per-capita consumption, the size of the US tea market, and where the numbers come from.
Read the guide →~12 min read