Camellia Green Tea

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Tea (Camellia sinensis L.) is grown on different land elevation which is the oldest and best beverage in the world next to water (Choudhury, 1989). There are three types of tea: green, oolong and black. Black tea and green tea contain caffeine (1 to 5) % of its dry weight (Amra et al., 2006) depending on type, brand (Bennett and Bonnie, 2001) and brewing method (Hicks et al., 1996).The polyphenol contents are one of the major constituents of tea which is reported to account for up to 40 % of the dry weight (Clement, 2009). Green and Oolong tea are the most widely consumed beverages in Asian countries and has been familiar in China and Japan from centuries (Zaveri, 2006). Green tea hails from the two leaves and a bud of the Camellia …show more content…

Though the taste of green tea is bitter, now many people are become interested about taking green tea for its healthy properties. As most of the people in developing countries started tea drinking because of its uncommonly good taste and flavor, relatively reasonable price compared with other stimulant drinks available in the market. Now consumers become conscious about the healthy benefit effect of tea drinking along their habitual consumption and they prefer green tea because of its medicinal properties. The socio-economic characteristics of consumers influence more on the consumption pattern of drinking tea especially green tea.It is generally agreed that food-related behaviors are complex and determined by the interplay of many factors, including physiological factors; socio-demographic characteristics such as education, income, ethnicity and availability of food; behavioral and lifestyle factors; and knowledge and attitudes related to diet and health (Terryet al,1991; Slack, 1996).Among the early adopters characterized relatively high education and income pay more attention on buying green products. Among the socio-economic characteristics, education has a significant influence on choosing healthy dietary habit. According to et al (Irala-Estevez, 2000), higher level of education may increase the ability to obtain or to understand health-related information in particular needed to develop health promoting behavior and beliefs in the field of food habit. In a study of Drywien, et al. (2015) found that education affects the rates of tea consumption, where those with higher education, daily drank more which may be related to having a higher awareness of the tea’s health benefits. Women also decidedly drank more one cup green tea than men. Another study (Naveed, et. Al. 2014) explained that use of green tea is more common in professionals than in

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