Ceylon Tea, Sri Lanka.

     

Ceylon Tea is world-famous for its quality and flavors.

    It is consumed the world over and is preferred as a cup of cheers & revives. Research has proved that tea is a beverage that is good for your health and well-being. Polyphenols reduce hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, blood glucose, and bacterial activity.

    Anyway, tea was an accidental discovery in the year 27 BC, in China. tea was first planted in Sri Lanka in 1824 at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya when a few plants were brought from China. more were introduced from Assam in 1839. in 1867 James Taylor, a Scottish planter planned tea seedlings at Loolecondura Estate in Deltota, 40km away from Kandy. this was a substitute crop for coffee, which was affected by coffee blight  1841, a coffee trading house, belonged to Capt. William Marwood converted his 60 plantations to tea. 

    Arriving in Ceylon in the year 1890, Thomas Lipton bought plantations that produced tea, now world-famous "Lipton Labels", to sell in his network of nearly 300 shops back in England.

Green Tea Manufacturing   
    
   The green leaves are subjected to heat by steaming or putting them in a heated pan to reduce moisture. this avoids the fermentation or oxidization stage, which in turn inactivates the enzymes. over 300 types of amino acids are preserved under this process, and extremely beneficial to human health.