See also: History of TeaTea Around the WorldTea Bags;
New York’s First Fashionable BeverageQuotes about Tea

TEA

Tea Plant

The most popular beverage in the world is tea, and beer is number two. However, in England and Ireland, beer is the most popular beverage.

U.S. Tea sales for 2007 were about $6.85 billion, compared to about $1.8 billion per year in the early 1990s.

Tea was designated as the Official Hospitality Beverage of South Carolina in 1995.

Top Tea consuming countries, per capita tea consumption 2005:

In mid-19th century America, Harper's magazine reported:

APPROXIMATE CAFFEINE CONTENT OF TEA (5 oz cup)

 

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