Green Tea History, Facts & Stats

Today, people use around 600,000 tons of green tea per year.

Green tea was first discovered in China back in 2737 B.C. There are many rumors and narratives regarding how green tea founded, but Emperor Shennong made the best testimony.

It all occurred by a coincidence when the Chinese Emperor Shennong was drinking a hot cup of water. A flower from the Camellia Sinensis fell into his bowl and enlivened his drink with an irresistible succulent taste.

Emperor Shennong found the flavor very refreshing. He promptly told his guards to find out the tea, and hence green tea was discovered.

First-Ever Book on Tea

Around 800 A.D., during the revolutionary and flourishment of the Tang Dynasty, a Chinese man named Lu Yu wrote a book. He named it “Cha Jing,” also known as “The Classic of Tea.”

When Lu Yu was a young boy,  his mentor was a Buddhist monk who trained the child in a manner of brewing and serving tea throughout his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

During his years of making tea, he was so scrutinized into making tea that resulted in making tea to improve such that he became a tea expert.

He then decided to travel outside the country to research.

His book, “The Classic of Tea” became the first written work to explain the culture and art of green tea. Well, this explains a lot why the Chinese are so thin.

Green tea was generally available to those with the highest and most lofty ranks of Chinese society and, thus, costly to purchase.

In the 14th century, green tea became open to everyone in society, everyday use as a means of relish and medicinal purposes.

The appealing and delicious green tea soon became famous by the passage of time in the 19th century due to the founding of European explorers.

Due to its unbelievable and spectacular flavor, it was a substantial product and became Great Britain’s national beverage accompanied by black tea.

Shortly after, green tea made its imposing and impressive appearance in America when it shipped overseas with the settlers.

There’s also another fact. Did you know that another name for green tea was “bullet tea” due to it firmly bearing semblance to the shape of bullets when shipped?

In a short time, the green team captured colonists’ hearts and it became extremely commercial and fashionable that Parliament imposed a Tea Tax in 1767.

As we are all aware of our history books, the colonists were quite upset about this tax. As a result, the crew abandoned 45 tons of valuable green tea at the harbor.

The extent of green tea to the West is of contemporary origin. The trend of green tea from Asia to Europe and America has been very laggy and sluggish.

During a visit to Asia in the sixteenth century, the European traders were first introduced to tea.

Because of not having much knowledge of tea, they were immediately influenced and inspired by the beverage and took it to their homelands. Later on, it became their principal commodity.

Green Tea & Coffee

In the last few decades, green tea has become extremely popular and preferable worldwide to cappuccino and coffee. At many coffee and tea shops, one can find a diverse variety of green tea beverages ranging from a hot jasmine green tea to an iced matcha latte.

In addition to its versatile flavors, green tea is still an ongoing discovery in health facilities.

Why?

Because it has copious and abundant beneficial antioxidants.

Green Tea Leads to Weight Loss

As you’ve probably known, Green tea is convenient and rewarding when it comes to weight loss so it’s one of the green tea facts.

Green tea supports weight loss in 3 ways:

• First of all, it helps the body’s metabolism to be more efficient since it contains substances that boost one’s metabolism like caffeine and a type of flavonoid called Catechin, which is an antioxidant.
• Secondly, Catechin also depletes lip stores, which help with the weight loss process.
• Lastly, green tea could aid weight loss by reducing appetite, which would make one consume fewer calories automatically. However, studies produced have conflicting results regarding weight loss and appetite.

Even if you are not on a weight loss journey, Green Tea comes with no harm. It helps our health in multiple ways and way better than other caffeine beverages.

Green Tea Statistics

We’ve gathered some statistics on green tea for you and that’s it for today. 🙂

We’ll keep it short:

• Young people drink green tea more than older ones: around 87% of them drink tea including green tea.
• Green tea is more beneficial than going to the gym.
• There are numerous types of green tea.
• Traditional Indian and Chinese medicine have been using green tea for centuries.
• China imports more than 6 metric tons of green tea annually.