Granulated tea is a type of tea , during the manufacturing process of which the raw material passed through a special machine with gear rollers, grinding and twisting tea leaves.
Granulated tea takes first place in terms of production in the world. This technology produces only black tea .
International marking - CTC (from the English. Crush, Tear, and Curl - "Push, Tear, Twist").
Technology was invented in the early 1930s by William Macketcher . The technology was most widely used in the 1950s in Africa and India . Granulation technology avoids the loss of a large amount of raw materials and produces tea of stable, albeit low quality.
Granular tea is suitable for the production of packaged tea, which should have a low price and brew quickly.
The infusion of granular tea is strong and bitter. The taste and aroma are intense, but not too pleasant.
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Fresh Leaves Conveyor | Leaf processing | Drying the finished granules | |||||||||