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Green Tea is produced from various regions like, Terrai (plain lands near Darjeeling), Assam & Kangra (Himachal Pradesh), it results in a substantially different beverage because the manufacturing process is significantly different. Green tea is not served with milk or sugar, but you can decide that for yourself.
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MINT AND LIME ICED TEA
Ingredients:
8 cups (2 quarts) water
8 green tea bags
1 bunch fresh mint
1 1/2 cups superfine or granulated sugar
1/2 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (from 4 medium limes)
Ice
6 fresh mint
1 medium lime
Procedure:
Place water in a medium pot and bring to a simmer over high heat. When water simmers, remove from heat, add tea [...]

There are four primary polyphenols in green tea and they are often collectively referred to as catechins. 
Powerful antioxidants, catechins have been shown in recent studies to fight viruses, slow aging, and have a beneficial effect on health. Clinical tests have shown that catechins destroy free radicals and have far-reaching positive effects on the entire body. 
Free [...]

Japanese history records that in A.D. 729, the emperor, Shomu, served tea to one hundred Buddhist monks at his palace. Since no tea was grown in Japan at that time, the processed leaves must have come from China. The first seeds for cultivation are thought to have been taken to Japan by Dengyo Daishi, a [...]

Japanese Buddhist abbot Eisai, a devout Zen Buddhist, brings tea seeds from China and plants them around his Kyoto temple. At this time the ancient Chinese tea drinking rituals become unfashionable in Japan and are replaced with a complicated and unique ritual, still used in Japan today, whereby the ceremony and behaviour are designed to [...]

400-600
Demand for tea as a medicinal beverage rises in China and cultivation processes are developed. Many tea drinkers add onion, ginger, spices, or orange to their teas. Plantations are established in the Yangtse river valleys and tea is further popularized by being gifted to emperors and appearing in taverns, wine stores and noodle houses.
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