Tea and Tea Preparations

Gathers the drinks made from the leaves of the tea plant, in plain or prepared form. It includes tea as a whole, the powdered Japanese matcha, spiced masala chai, bubble tea with its tapioca pearls and iced tea. It does not cover herbal infusions that contain no tea leaf, which sit in their own group, and the drinks here range from the plain leaf infusion to sweet, spiced and chilled preparations. Within the Tea and Tea Drinks subcategory it sits beside the groups Herbal Infusions and Tisanes, and each entry is placed in the one group whose description fits it best.