Tea refers to the leaves, leaf buds and internodes of the tea plant, whose botanical name is Camellia Sinensis. Tea is second largest consumed beverage in the world, after water. It is mostly available in four varieties in the market, black tea, oolong tea, green tea and white tea. History says that, tea originated in china, and Chinese claims, tea to be the best, antidote. And in India, tea was known only as a medicinal plan till 1830s; but now India is the largest producer and consumer of tea now, with 30 percentage of production and 25 percentage of consumption.

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