Green tea is the healthiest of all teas. Sri Lanka is the third largest producer of tea in the world. They produce the blank teas, known as Ceylon teas. Other varieties black teas are pekoe, orange pekoe and broken orange pekoe. East India Company which introduced tea into India. Black tea is the mostly grown tea in India, grown in Darjeeling, Assam and the Nilgiri hills. Japan also has a reach heritage in tea drinking. It is said that a Buddhist monk had brought tea leaves from China to Japan, it is from there that the Japanese people learnt the art of tea brewing. The famous Japanese green teas are sencha, matcha and bancha. Taiwan produces mainly oolong tea and pouching teas, which have a fruity and flowery taste.

Countries like USA produce large quantities of ready made tea products. Ice tea is a very important beverage there. Canned tea is available which is exported in large quantities to other parts of the world. Herbal tea, a substituted for natural tea is also a popular drink, for its beneficial effects on health is being produced in large quantities in Europe, China and Japan.

Tea has healed and cured around the world, the only question is what it will do for you.