Sentence examples for tea was first from inspiring English sources

Like chocolate, tea was first promoted for its medicinal value.

Uji is best known as the place where tea was first cultivated in Japan in the Muromachi era (1338 1573).

The Tang Dynasty was also the period when oolong tea was first developed in the Fujian province.

No one is quite sure when afternoon tea was first introduced in England, but the ceremony became widespread in the 1840s.

It was from these sub-tropic mountain areas that tea was first harvested and exported along the tea caravan routes, on journeys that could take up to six months.

The anticarcinogenic potential of catechins (polyphenols found in green tea) was first observed and reported over a decade ago.

Black tea is first withered to induce protein breakdown and reduce water content 68-777% of original).

In the rest of the world, tea is the second most consumed drink, after water; in America, tea is sixth.

Marie Sasso, who has been filling little sachets with Eléphant tea – the brand was first made near Marseille St Charles station in 1896 – since she was 17, said she never expected to find herself without a job at 55, "and never for a moment considered not fighting for it".

Tea was the first food to be regulated by the federal government (in 1897), Birds Eye got the patent for the first frozen-food processing machine and ketchup was among the first commercial convenience foods to take off.

The collection was followed in 2009 by the novel Tea For Two, which was first published as a serial in Kompas.