@0#Welcome to the Lipton Institute of Tea, my name is Steve and I lead the Tea Technology group# @6#We’re here in the tea glass house in the UK. #UK# @9#In our Tea Technology Group we have over 100 people working around the world#WORLD# @13#We have a group in India, we have a group in Kenya and obviously the group here. #WORLD# @18#The main objective of our work is to really add values to teas and make teas great for the consumer #WORLD# @24#so we’re looking to improve the key elements of tea and that#FLOWER# @27#the goodness value, the colour, the aroma and the taste#WORDS#
Green House
@0#Tea grows all around the world and typically in a belt around the equator #FALSE# @4#so what we have is all types of tea are from the variety called Camellia Sinensis but within that there are two sub-varieties. #CAMELLIA# @11#One called Sinensis, so we have Camellia Sinensis, variety Sinensis,and Camelia Sinensis, variety Assamica. #CAMELLIA# @19#Now the Sinensis variety originates from China in the flat plain lands #CHINA# @25#and the Assamica variety originates in the Himalaya regions of India and northern India.#INDIA# @29#So obviously we can’t travel round the world all the time to collect these samples, #GREENHOUSE# @34#so we’ve collected representative sets of teas to study in our glass house here #GREENHOUSE# @39#so that we can look at them under a controlled environment. #GREENHOUSE#
Tea Processing Steps
@0#There are two main types of tea consumed in the world# @3#firstly green tea#GREENTEA# @4#and black tea.#BLACKTEA# @5#So green tea is usually manufactured from the Sinensis type of tealeaf#GREENTEA# @9#whereas black tea is normally manufactured from the Assamica type of tealeaf.#BLACKTEA# @13#Nearly all leaf teas are made using these two leaves and a bud that are plucked from the bush. #BLACKTEA# @18#But there’s a special type of tea called#FALSE# @20#White Tea that actually just takes this fine, young shoot to make a very special kind of tea. #WHITETEA# @26#For example, for a black tea process, we start off with fresh green leaves then there are 4 key steps to the manufacture: #BLACKTEA# @33#withering, cutting, then we ferment before we dry it to the product that you know. #PROCESS# @40#The key step here is the fermentation step and this is the critical part whereby we generate the colours and the flavours and that mouth-feel#ASYOUCANSEE# @49#for a typical and high-quality black tea.# @53#For Green Tea, we have a slightly different process.Again we start with the fresh leaf but there are now only three key steps. #GREENTEA# @61#We take that fresh leaf and then as soon as it comes into the factory#FALSE# @64#we steam it, so we lock in all of that goodness #GREENSTEPS# @67# and then it’s just simply cut and dried so we retain that fresh, green colour. #GREENSTEPS#
A Culture of Innovation
@0#Lipton as a key innovator is always looking to bring new consumer experiences to the market and one of these is#FALSE# @6#the pyramid bag.#PYRAMID# @7#Now, the pyramid bag is developed so that the tealeaves inside the bag have room to move# @13#and what that does is that it means that we get more of the tea goodness delivered into the cup. #FALSE# @17#Another key innovation is the differentiated green tea that we’ve just launched in Japan#GORYOKU# @22#and this is special because we’ve designed a new process that allows us to use a black, Assamica type of leaf to deliver a sparkling green tea. #GORYOKU#
Your favourite tea ?
@0#I like many teas across the Lipton range#FALSE# @2#but at the moment, my personal favourite is Lipton GoRyoku , #GORYOKU# @5#and this is because I find it particularly refreshing and invigorating,#