a little background of chinese black tea

Chinese black tea (Pu-erh tea) is a well-known traditional beverage and is mainly produced in Yunnan Province, China. Chinese black tea is usually categor- ized as a post-fermented tea. Because of the dark brown colour of the infusion liquid, it is referred to as black tea in Chinese but is actually different from the Western ‘black tea’, which is fully oxidized tea. The raw material for Chinese black tea is parched green tea. Piled-up green tea leaves are fermented with microorganisms such as Aspergillus spp. for preparing Chinese black tea. Chinese black tea has been widely consumed not only in Southeast Asian countries (Singapore & Malaysia), including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan, but also in European Union countries, as a healthy beverage (Ku et al., 2010).

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