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.

Types of Teas:

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.

  1. Dip leaves in hot water or steaming the leaves.
  2. Colling in tourf or mat.
  3. Rolled in rolling machine & some small tea producer rolling by their hands.
  4. The Last step is drying.

Types of green teas

types of green tea
  • 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

Benefits of Green Tea

Black Tea

Black tea also harvested from the camellia sinesis plant.

  1. Withering
  2. Rolling
  3. CTC machine (cursh, tear, curl)
  4. Fermentation
  5. Drying

Black tea oxidized more than any other teas that give more intense aromas & flavors in teas.

Varieties of Black Teas

types of black tea
  • Assam tea
  • Ceylon tea
  • Darjelling tea
  • Golden monkey
  • Jinjun mei
  • Keemum
  • Tibeti
  • Yingdehong
  • Bohea
  • Congou
  • Dianhong
  • Kangra
  • Nilgiri

Benefits of Black Tea

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

types of white tea
  • Bai mudan
  • Shoumei
  • Baihao yinzhen

Benefits of White Tea

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.

  1. Withering
  2. Oxidation
  3. Fixstion
  4. Rolling
  5. Drying
  6. Roasting

Types of Oolong Teas

types of oolong tea
  • 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

benefits of oolong teas

Yellow Tea

The young tea plucked from camellia senses plant.

  1. Withering
  2. Fixation
  3. Rolling
  4. Sealed yellow(slightly fermented)
  5. Drying

Varities of Yellow Teas

types of yellow tea
  • Junshan yinchen
  • Huoshan huangya
  • Meng ding huang ya
  • Mo gan huang ya

Benefits of Yellow Tea

types of 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.