Flavored teas

In China, black and green tea has long been flavored with other ingredients: jasmine tea, chrysanthemum tea and rose congou tea, for example.

This idea spread to the West, and now black tea is flavored with all manner of ingredients. Dried fruit and fruit peel make apple and lemon tea, grapefruit tea, mango tea. Oils and essences produce blackcurrant tea, kiwi tea, lime tea, passion fruit tea and strawberry, vanilla and wild cherry teas.

These are made in exactly the same way as the more traditional teas, sometimes served iced and not normally drunk with milk.