TEA TIME! Highlights from the World Tea Expo 2015, from coffee leaf tea to ‘teablets’

By Elaine Watson

14-May-2015 - Last updated on 15-May-2015 at 14:25 GMT

From teablets (tablets of compressed tea leaves you drop in your mug, minus the bag) to tea made from coffee leaves, the tea market is a hotbed of innovation. FoodNavigator-USA headed to the World Tea Expo in Long Beach, CA to bring you some highlights…

TEA TIME! Highlights from the 2015 World Tea Expo, from coffee leaf tea to ‘teablets’

Tea pods could account for up to 10% of dry tea sales in 2015

Global retail sales of dry tea (bagged, loose leaf) topped $43bn in 2014, 45% since 2009

Who are the biggest tea drinkers?

Brewed tea is bigger than brewed coffee in volume terms, but not in value

Non-traditional teas are driving growth

Ready-to-drink tea

Teablets! Real tea, minus the bag: ‘No mess, no waste’

Matcha madness!

Beware cheap imitations…

Coffee leaf tea…

Zest Tea: Feeling the buzz?

The antioxidant myth?

But the good news?

Should the 2015 Dietary Guidelines promote tea?

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