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The for the Study of Tea Culture and Science is a teaching, research and , fostering and leading collaboration across the sciences, humanities and social sciences to explore ways tea influences everything from ceramics to gender roles to health practices all over the world.
1 Taking tea, or is it tisane?
Much of the time, when people say they are drinking tea, they are actually drinking something called a tisane. A tisane, which is the French word for "herbal infusion,鈥 is simply a combination of herbs many people enjoy as 鈥渉erbal tea,鈥 which often indicates that the tea has been infused with herbs, spices, fruit or even chocolate. But to truly be tea, it technically must contain the leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis, otherwise known as the tea plant.
2 Tea has simple roots鈥 or leaves
While there are more than 1,500 kinds of tea derived from the leaf of the plant Camellia sinensis, there are only six basic categories of tea: 1) white, 2) yellow, 3) green, 4) oolong, 5) black, 6) and post-fermented. The specific types of tea are made by processing the tea leaves differently.