About Teas `Oolong
is one of several kinds of tea.`
The difference in teas is due to their production methods.
EIn fact, black,
green, and oolong tea are made from the same leaf.
People around the world enjoy many different kinds of teas.
But all these teas are made from the leaf of the same tea
plant (which originated in China and belongs to the camellia
family)
Don't you find it surprising that teas with different flavor
and aroma are made from the same leaf?
EThere are three
different basic production methods. Oolong is a semi-fermented
tea.
Even though the raw ingredient is
the same, different teas are produced by different production
methods, namely the difference in the extent of fermentation.
Unfermented (green) tea is produced without fermenting the leaves;
semi-fermented (oolong) tea is made by fermenting the leaves
to some extent; while fermented (black) tea is made by fermenting
the leaves fully.
