[Sca-cooks] Tea

[Randy Goldberg MD]

> I;ve never heard of some of these teas before. White tea? pu-erh?
> oolongs?
>
> What creates the different colors? Is this due to different types
> of processing? Or different types of tea plants?

Different color tea comes from varying lengths of fermentation before
drying. Black teas are fermented a long time (until they turn black, duh
<g>). Green teas are more-or-less unfermented.