World Tea Expo 2017

The Chemistry of Tea Production (Room N237)

13 Jun 17
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Tracks: Tea Science, Technical, Regulatory

Tea chemistry is not the dull test tube stuff you learned at school.  The tea leaf contains an Aladdin’s cave of compounds – some unique to tea - that we have learned to manipulate into a myriad of tea types.  Just what is in those leaves and what use is it to the plant?  How in tea production do we select and favor certain biochemical pathways to create a range of tastes and quality?  And how does this mysterious tea chemistry affect you?  All this and more revealed .