> > I'm sitting here sipping green tea. I wonder if they call it that because it is from a certain variety of tea plant, or because it was made from tea that wasn't ripe yet. Does anybody know?
> > Howard
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> Not exactly "unripe", but the youngest leaves of the tea plant, which is Camellia sinensis just like black tea. It's also processed less, so that it oxidises as little as possible.
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> wintermute

Thanks for the info. I've been wondering about that for a while. Here lately, green tea has been my favorite.
Howard