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Black tea is a variety of tea that is more oxidized than the green, oolong and white varieties. There are two kinds of black tea, the organic and non organic. Organic black tea is the best one because it comes naturally not from chemical reaction. All four varieties of tea are made from leaves of Camellia sinensis. Black tea is generally stronger in flavor and contains more caffeine than the less oxidized teas. It is sometimes called as tea from revolution because it has different flavor than the other kinds of tea. More caffeine in the tea means that more delicious in flavor. Many people who love tea would like this kind of tea.

The name black tea, however, could alternatively refer to the color of the oxidized leaves. In Chinese, black tea is a commonly used classification for post-fermented teas, such as Pu-erh tea. However, in the Western world, Ceylon Tea is one kind of black tea which really famous around the world.

While green tea usually loses its flavor within a year, black tea retains its flavor for several years. For this reason, it has long been an article of trade, and compressed bricks of black tea even served as a form of de facto currency in Mongolia, Tibet, and Siberia into the 19th century. It was known since the Tang Dynasty that black tea steeped in hot water could also serve as a passable cloth dye for the lower classes that could not afford the better quality clothing colors of the time. However, far from being a mark of shame, the “brown star” mark of the dying process was seen as much better than plain cloth and held some importance as a mark of the lower merchant classes through the Ming Dynasty. The tea originally imported to Europe was either green or semi-oxidized. Only in the 19th century did black tea surpass green in popularity. Although green tea has recently seen a revival due to its purported health benefits, black tea still accounts for over ninety percent of all tea sold in the West.

Sometimes, the expression black tea is also used to describe a cup of tea without milk, similar to coffee served without milk or cream. In Commonwealth nations, black tea is not commonly consumed black, as adding milk is the common practice.

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