31st July, 2007: Tea Facts both Past and Present
Here are some fun tea facts you might not know.
- Tea has been around for over 5000 years
- Americans consume more than 50 billion servings of tea.
- Away from home consumption of tea has increased by 10% annually over the past 10 years.
- It takes five pounds of fresh tea leaves to make one pound of finished tea.
- Tea is one of the largest agricultural products in the world. Nearly 35 billion pounds of tea leaves were harvested last year. That is enough to produce nearly 7 billion pounds of finished tea.
Posted by Elizabeth at 6:00 am |
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Are you sure you don’t mean tea has been around 5 thousand years?
Comment by Tea Party Girl — July 31, 2007 @ 10:32 am
Thanks Tea Party Girl…you are right!
Comment by Valorie — July 31, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
BTW TPG there is mystery who created Tea was Chinese emperor who was plague by headache or some Chinese monk they are not really sure LOL!
Comment by Kelly — August 2, 2007 @ 2:44 pm