As you may remember from our black tea article, all tea comes from the same plant, camellia sinensis. The leaves and buds are harvested and oxidized (exposed to air) at different levels to produce the various white, green, black, and oolong teas; the longer a tea is allowed to oxidize, the darker and more caffeinated it becomes. CHUNMEE 41022 is not allowed to oxidize, meaning that it retains more of its natural green color (hence the name), tends toward light, grassy flavors, and has about half the caffeine of black tea.
