Top 10 Countries that Produce the Most Tea

That's what I missed too.

I didn't think that one was the most surprising. I'd heard of Kenyan Tea even before i went there. Iranian, Turkish and Vietnamese Tea on the other hand....

Most bulk tea in Turkish shops isn't from Turkey though.

Looks like Iran got bumped off the list. But they still drink oodles of tea, so I'm more surprised that they're gone. Really good tea in little glass cups, with all kind of fancy sugar cubes. Beautiful samovars too. And Iran has a lot of land that's great for growing tea. Lots of independent growers.

Turkey produces great apple tea.

Turkish makes sense in hindsight, as does sri lanka... you know ceylon tea.. Cant believe I missed that.. no idea about vietnam and burma though. (or kenya and argentina tbh, I guessed those, though there might ve been something in the back of my mind because I hardly guessed any others, tried southafrica but that was because of rooibos and brazil cause well it is big)

@redsplat drinking it doesnt mean a thing or the uk would be nr 1. And tea is quite big in the netherlands aswell not sure if it is more than in say belgium or denmark though, but for most it is a daily thing, though coffee clearly wins out.

I knew some African country was probably going to be on the list because of Rooibos tea. Guessed South Africa first.

Only if you consider "mate" to be tea...

No, not really! Mate is the drink, you mean "yerba". But there are different things because of diferent process to get the final result

jajaco2017, sorry, you're wrong. chewing the leaves is a tradition in Inca Countries such as Bolivia(mainly), Peru and Ecuador. In Argentina, Uruguay and south of Bazil(although in other parts of the country some people like me :o) also enjoy it) the traditional tea is "erva mate", the one used to make the famous "chimarrão". In Paraguay they like the tea of a similar leave which they call "tereré". People have it everywhere in Paraguay at any time of the day, in spite of the heat, having their hot tea calmly as if the world had stopped.

1. Mate doesn't involve chewing the yerba leaves. You're probably confusing yerba with coca leaves, which are an Andean thing, mostly Bolivian and Peruvian if I'm not mistaken. 2. Tereré is a cold preparation of yerba leaves. It's prepared very similarly to mate, but with ice water. Paraguayans still call it mate when it's hot. Argentinians from the fart north also drink tereré and sometimes even use cold juice or soda in place of the ice water. 3. Paraguayans drink mate any time in the winter, but in summer it's typically only early in the morning or late at night. Tereré is way more common any other time of day in summer.

No shingen, Argentina is a great producer of tea, not only yerba mate.

8 of these countries being Asian doesn't really surprise me.

But 2 of these countries not being Asian... a whole different story.

nice.

I missed three. Really tea-ed me off.

Tough quiz, nice one

Turkey and Iran slipped my mind, couldn't land an African country in time ;

Got all but Turkey

Missed India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka

If anyone else is interested what the value of "all the tea in China is" I calculated it out using a value of 28 cents per kilo and came up with $484 million US. Assuming that these are English and not metric tons. So the next time someone says they wouldn't do something for all the tea in China, counter with "of course not. But would you do it for four hundred and eighty FIVE million dollars?"

I missed a few because I was for some idiotic reason thinking that Madagascar was near a certain subcontinent.. and not by Africa. LOL

Kenya makes sense due to the plantations from British colonalists. Interestingly while doing this I am drinking Mongolian tea, and realise just how unusual it is to actually have it, as they don't make the list.

Tried UK for fun

I'm not sure if it's also the case in Yorkshire

Tea is a plant (shrub), so the color or matter of harvesting does not matter (obviously) Nor does the flavours that are added to it afterwards. Plain and simple.

rooibos is a different plant, and herbs obviously are, in every day speech (a lot of) people call them tea, but technically they arent. They are infusions used in the same way as tea, but with different plants. If it is not made of tea(leaves) it isnt really tea. (but it is easy to call em that, I usually do aswell, though I know the distinction, "do you want an herbal infusion?" sounds kinda I dont know what, but you are bound to get some funny looks ;) )

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