Is Oolong tea the most drunk tea in China? – No, it is green tea.
This is a series (I don’t know if it will really become a series) that takes the liberty of using data to verify information and urban legends related to tea that we have come to believe through our senses.
In the last issue, we examined the caffeine content of tea and coffee using data from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and finally settled on an oblique result that impressed us with the amount of love MEXT has for tea.
When you hear the word “tea” being drunk in Chinese tea, you probably think of “oolong tea”.
In this issue, we will briefly present some statistics on the most popular types of tea consumed in China.
In conclusion, Statista reports that the most common type of tea produced in China in 2021 is green tea, which also leads all others by far with 60.3% of the total.
The most produced tea and the most drunk tea are two different statistics to be exact, but I think it is safe to say that green tea is the most drunk tea in China because it is probably produced in line with the domestic demand in China.
Therefore, the theory that Oolong tea is the most drunk tea in China was not proven.
Incidentally, black tea came in second at 14.2 percent %、3番目はプーアール茶等の後発酵茶で13%, and finally oolong tea, which accounted for 9.4 percent of the total, came in fourth.
It is a surprising result, a little different from the sensation.
Incidentally, the green tea generally consumed in China is different from the steamed green tea generally consumed in Japan, which is made by frying in a kettle.
Since steamed green tea is the mainstream in Japan, kettle-fired green tea, which is produced in small quantities, is sometimes referred to as “phantom tea.
Steamed green tea is a special process that has developed in Japan in a Galapagos-like manner.
I would like to continue this series of self-serving verification with data until I get tired of it!
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