FOODS AND FOOD ADULTERANTS. 



PART VII TEA, COFFEE, AND COCOA PREPARATIONS. 



TEA. 



Tea is prepared from the various species of Thca. This plant is a 

 hardy evergreen shrub. 



STATISTICS OF TEA CONSUMPTION. 



The extent of the consumption of teas is shown by the following State- 

 ments obtained from the United States Treasury: 



Imports of lea lex* tlic amount exported. 



The present per capita consumption of tea. in the United Stales is 

 approximately 1.3.3 pounds. 



We derive about 51 per cent of our tea from China, 42 per cent from 

 Japan, and all but a small fraction of a per cent of the remainder from 

 the British possessions. 



GENERAL CLASSIFICATION. 



Teas are usually designated as black or green, the name depending 

 upon the color of the prepared leaf, due to the methods of curing and 

 not, as formerly supposed, to differences in species. 



Col. Money, 1 in his work on tea cultivation, gives an illustration, from 

 which the following is taken, indicating the leaves which constitute 



J Tea cultivation, 3d eel., page 102 et xeq., Lieut. Col. Money; London, \\. B. Whiting- 



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