TEA

[1001dinners]

Of late I have been noticing the vast number of dried fruit and berry mixtures available described as tea.
This seems to be a bit of a stretch from the original Chinese teaclassified by Linnaeus as Camellia sinensis. When is a tea not a tea. should we not respect the original and just call the rest of them infusions or some thing like that?

[grayelf]

I usually refer to the twig and berries type of teas as tisanes. This is a decent link talking about the different categories: http://coffeetea.about.com/od/teaandt...

[bushwickgirl]

Your link clarifies the tea/not tea issue nicely, with proper terminology.