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How to distinguish green tea, oolong tea and black tea for beginner
- By Indigo Morie
- Published 08/25/2008
- Weight Loss
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Indigo Morie
My name is indigoMorie, and i am a independent private teacher. I like writing and reading, because with reading we can enhance our knowledge while with writing we can share our knowledge to other people. Hope you enjoy and take benefit of my articles.
View all articles by Indigo MorieAre you beginner who will take benefit of consuming tea? There are a lot of tea products that we can consume, from the pure tea product to the tea products that added with some supplement like herbal and flower. But all of them are made from the same plant Camellia sinensis that undergoes different process to produce green tea, oolong tea, and black tea.
Green Tea
Green tea is made from tea leaves that are not undergone any
fermentation process. This kind of tea has a green color like dried leaves, and
when you brew it you will have liquid with yellowish green. It’s lighter in
flavour and has grassy taste. Green tea has been consumed in
Black Tea
Black tea is made from tea leave that undergone fully fermentation process. The color of the tea leaves is black, and if you brew it you will have extract liquid tea with reddish brown color. This is the most popular tea. West countries usually consume this tea. Most of polyphenols in the black tea are oxidized become substance that believed act as antioxidant too.
Oolong Tea
Oolong tea is made from tea leaves that undergone partially fermentation process. The characteristic of this tea is between green tea and black tea. You will have orange color when you brew them.
Which kind of tea that suitable for me?
As beginner who firstly consumes tea, I recommended that you try black tea or oolong tea, but you can try green tea too. If you are not like the taste, you can add milk or honey. Studies of humans and animals show that the antioxidants in black, oolong tea, and green teas are highly beneficial to our health, such as prevent body from cancer, diabetes, Heart and Stroke, anti Inflammatory, and weight loss.
If you interesting to explore the types of tea and to look at the Health Benefits of Green Tea, black tea, and oolong tea please visit here.

