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Numi tea focuses on organic teas, including pure teas, flavored teas and blends, and herbal teas. A large portion of Numi's teas are organic certified and a significant portion are fair trade certified. In addition to blends, Numi sells some single-origin teas and herbal teas, including teas from China, India, and rooibos from South Africa. Among their pure teas, Numi sells green, black, white, Pu-erh, and one oolong.
Some of the easiest ways to classify teas are by color. Black, green and red are all common varieties. Most teas are made from blends of tea leaves and other herbs and spices. Chamomile, spearmint, cinnamon and lavender are all popular herbs used in tea blends. Other things found in tea include citruses such as lemon or orange and roots such as ginger. Frequently, large tea companies will name teas based on where the tea recipe originated from as well as color. English and Irish black tea (usually in the breakfast variety), African Red tea and Japanese Green Tea are famliar names of big brand teas. Blends such as lemon and ginger, lavender and chamomile and mint-blend teas are liked by many people.
Teavana is a tea company that has its own stores, usually located in shopping malls, which sell loose-leaf tea, including pure teas and blends, as well as selling teaware. Teavana's blends include many blends with whole fruit ingredients. Teavana also sells teas through its website.
Celestial Seasonings is a popular mainstream brand of herbal teas in the U.S., which also sells a few blends containing actual tea. Herbal teas from Celestial Seasonings are widely available, including in most supermarkets; their most popular herbal teas include Sleepytime and the Zinger series (tangy blends containing hibiscus).
Most of the tea on sale in British supermarkets are blends of lots of different teas.
The Lipton tea brand is owned by Unilever, a British/Dutch multinational corporation.The standard Lipton tea is a blend of teas from different tea-producing countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, and China.Teas vary in their aroma, flavor, and other qualities from season to season and year to year. In order to maintain a consistent taste, Lipton continuously changes the formulation of their blend, changing the proportions of teas used in order to deliver a consistent product during different years and at different times of year.Lipton also sells other teas, including green teas, flavored teas, and blends. These include ingredients from other regions of the world.It should also be noted that Lipton's products vary in different parts of the country. The blends sold in one country are not necessarily the same as those sold in other countries. This is in part because the company tries to cater to the different tastes of different regions and cultures.
Twinings produces about 200 different kinds of tea, although all these teas are divided into 6 main groups: Classic teas, Origins teas, Black teas, Green teas, Fresh teas and "Herbal and Fruit" teas.
A person can acquire afternoon blends of tea from a number of different places, depending on their location and their intended price range. These teas may be bought at a mass retail store, or at a specialty tea vendor. Several types of tea may be bought and blended at home to create an afternoon blend by oneself.
The basic thing in tea is tea. Some teas have other things mixed in and it also comes in varied blends. A good tea is dried, smoked, and cut. It comes from a tea plant and cut from the top of the bush. White tea is the youngest leaves of the tea plant and black teas are the teas that are processed by drying, rolling, cutting, and smoked. Things added to teas are herbs, flowers, and leaves.
Some black teas are a particular style and can be blends of tea from different regions:English BreakfastIrish BreakfastRussian CaravanSome black teas are named on their region:Ceylon Black Tea, from Sri LankaAssam Black Tea, from Assam, IndiaDarjeeling Black Tea, from Darjeeling, IndiaKeemun, From Qimen county in Anhui province of ChinaYunnan Red (Dian hong), from Yunnan province in ChinaSome black teas are flavored:Earl Grey TeaOrange pekoe is not a style or variety of tea...rather it is a "grade" of tea, denoting which leaves are picked and included in it. Thus, Assam tea can be Orange Pekoe, or Darjeeling can be Orange Pekoe, or you can have a blend of orange pekoe teas from different regions.
There are many different flavors of herbal teas. Among these includes chai tea, which includes many different spices and herbs to help flavor it to perfection.
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