Tea

📖 In short

Tea is a drink made by pouring boiling water over dried leaves from the tea bush. It's one of the most popular drinks in the world, drunk in the morning, after meals and with guests. In Arab countries it's drunk with mint or cardamom.

🤩 Did you know?

India and China are the world's biggest tea producers.
The world produces billions of kilograms of tea every year.
Tea contains a stimulant, so children shouldn't drink much of it.
Britain is one of the countries that imports the most tea.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 The tea bush

Tea bushes are grown on hillsides in warm, rainy countries. Workers pick the small, tender green leaves from the tops of the bushes by hand.

🔍 Green and black

Green tea and black tea come from the same plant! The difference is how the leaves are prepared: green tea is dried quickly, while black tea is left to change color before drying.

💡 A Chinese legend

A Chinese legend says that thousands of years ago a tea leaf fell into a Chinese emperor's bowl of hot water, he liked the taste, and that's how tea drinking began.

🎯 Tea in our countries

In Morocco green tea with mint is poured from a teapot held up high. In the Gulf, red tea is drunk with cardamom and saffron, and in Iraq it's drunk in small glasses called “istikan”.