Tea’s amazing history

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Who knew tea’s history was so exciting? Robert Fortune stole the secret of tea.

The great tea robbery: How our cuppa wouldn’t exist if an amazing Victorian hadn’t stolen the secret from China’s warlords | Mail Online reports:

“Green tea and black tea were not different species, as had been thought, but leaves from the same plant differently processed, one fermented, the other not.

He also discovered, to his horror, that the tea we were drinking should carry a health warning.

The Chinese were routinely slipping coloured dye into the tea intended for Britain because they thought we wanted it greener than it was naturally.

The dye was Prussian Blue, a form of cyanide. For years, tea had been poisoning us. “

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