English afternoon tea or simply afternoon tea is a traditional blend of
tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of '' Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northe ...
s originating from India, China, Africa and Sri Lanka. Afternoon tea blends are often lighter than breakfast blends, being designed to "complement, rather than mask the flavor of the afternoon tea meal".
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English breakfast tea
English breakfast tea or simply breakfast tea is a traditional blend of black teas originating from Assam tea, Assam, Ceylon tea, Ceylon and Kenyan tea, Kenya. It is one of the most popular blended teas, common in British tea culture, British a ...
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Irish breakfast tea
Irish breakfast tea is a blend of several black teas, most often a combination of Assam teas and Ceylon teas. Irish tea brands, notably Barry's, Bewley's, Lyons and Robert Roberts in the Republic and Nambarrie's and Thompson's Punjana in Northe ...
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Tea (meal)
Tea (in reference to food, rather than the drink) has long been used as an umbrella term for several different meals. English writer Isabella Beeton, whose books on home economics were widely read in the 19th century, describes meals of var ...
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