International Tea Day: Climate change may be changing the taste of tea


By AGENCY

Flooding and increased rainfall could alter the subtle flavours of the tea leaf and potentially reduce its health benefits, a new report says. – Photo: ugenekeebler/IStock.com via AFP

Climate change is threatening our tea consumption. A recent report shows that extreme weather conditions are likely to alter the taste of the world's most widely consumed beverage. By 2050, a quarter of the tea plants in India and Kenya could have disappeared.

Wine, rice, chocolate, coffee, etc. The list of foods threatened by global warming is long. And now we can add tea to it. Floods, heat waves, hurricanes... these meteorological events are becoming increasingly frequent due to climate change and threatening tea growing areas in the world.

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