black tea

noun

: tea that is dark in color from complete oxidation of the leaf before firing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web For curious beginners, Rare Tea Company’s gift set of four English breakfast blends shows off how one wildly popular style of black tea can vary in notes of malt and caramel — with or without milk.

Times Food Staff, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022 What makes black tea black is the oxidation process.

Adele Jackson-gibson, Good Housekeeping, 1 Nov. 2022 Inoue-Choi said that might explain why both green and black tea seem to confer health benefits.

Aria Bendix, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2022 Invented in Taiwan in the 1980s, the classic recipe calls for rich, silky, shaken green or black tea with sizable black tapioca balls, which require a special straw to drink.

Kate Springer, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022 The basic flavors are milk, oolong, green or black tea.

Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2022 Made with grapes from the Oakville AVA, this wine has aromas of strawberry, black plum and black tea.

Mike Desimone And Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2022 To make the Chai Spot's traditional cardamom chai, milk is boiled and added to black tea with cane sugar, cardamom and fennel.

Felicia Campbell And Jill Cassidy, The Arizona Republic, 27 Oct. 2022 The new study extends the good news to the U.K.’s favorite drink: black tea.

Carla K. Johnson, ajc, 29 Aug. 2022 See More

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