5 Different Types of Teas & their Varieties: The Complete Guide
Today I’ am going to tell you exactly different types of teas and their varieties.
I am a food technologist and I test and taste 100s teas in labs. So I think I’ve to tell you about teas and their varieties(Including Benefits).
Let’s dive right in.
Table of Contents
Types of Teas:
- Green Tea
- Black Tea
- White Tea
- Oolong Tea
- Yellow Tea
Green Tea
The Camellia sinensis plant produces all traditional teas (Black tea, white tea, oolong tea, green tea, and yellow).
The process start from the harvesting the leaves from Camellia sinesisi plant.
- Dip leaves in hot water or steaming the leaves.
- Colling in tourf or mat.
- Rolled in rolling machine & some small tea producer rolling by their hands.
- The Last step is drying.
Types of green teas
- Matcha tea
- Bancha
- Snecha tea
- Longing tea
- Kukicha
- Konacha
- Gyokuro
- Genmaicha
- Hojicha
- Taiping houkul
- Kabusecha
- Baozhong tea
- Anji bai cha
- Aracha
- Gunpowder
- Defang tea
Benfits of green teas
Black Tea
Black tea also harvested from the camellia sinesis plant.
- Withering
- Rolling
- CTC machine (cursh, tear, curl)
- Fermentation
- Drying
Black tea oxidized more than any other teas that give more intense aromas & flavors in teas.
Varieties of Black Teas
- Assam tea
- Ceylon tea
- Darjelling tea
- Golden monkey
- Jinjun mei
- Keemum
- Tibeti
- Yingdehong
- Bohea
- Congou
- Dianhong
- Kangra
- Nilgiri
Benefits of Black Tea
White Tea
White tea is lightly oxidized tea. White teas are picked before fine white hairs still coat the tea plants. That’s why we called it white tea.
White processing is very simple first withering & drying.
Varieties of White Teas
- Bai mudan
- Shoumei
- Baihao yinzhen
Benefits of White Tea
Oolong Tea
Oolong tea collected from the camellia senses plant. Oolong tea process is a little more than other teas. It has many more types of tea varieties.
- Withering
- Oxidation
- Fixstion
- Rolling
- Drying
- Roasting
Types of Oolong Teas
- Tieguanyin
- Bai jiguan
- Da hang pao
- Ban tian yao
- Pouching
- Rougui
- Shin jin gui
- Shui hsien
- Dong ding
- Dongfang meiren
- Gaoshan
- Huang meigui
Benefits of Oolong Tea
Yellow Tea
The young tea plucked from camellia senses plant.
- Withering
- Fixation
- Rolling
- Sealed yellow(slightly fermented)
- Drying
Varities of Yellow Teas
- Junshan yinchen
- Huoshan huangya
- Meng ding huang ya
- Mo gan huang ya
Benefits of Yellow Tea
Now I’d to like hear from you:
Which type of tea you like most?
Or may be I didn’t mentioned your favorite tea.
Either way let me know by leaving a comment below right now.
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