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U. Miami-area businesses capitalize on surging popularity of green tea

Bari Lieberman
University Wire
09-08-2005
(The Miami Hurricane) (U-WIRE) CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Once seen as a drink designed only for the social elite to sip on during brunch, hot tea, green tea in particular, is now the second-most popular drink worldwide, falling behind only water, according to QSRMagazine.com, Quality and Speed for Restaurant Success.

Although Asian cultures have been benefiting from the healthy side effects of drinking green tea regularly for centuries, only recently has the U.S. media given attention to tea's health benefits, causing an explosion of its popularity in the health-crazed states.

Tea was first made in China 4,000 to 5,000 years ago by means of the Camellia ...

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