The Origins of Tea, Coffee and Cocoa as Beverages

Teas, Cocoa and Coffee: Plant Secondary Metabolites and Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-24

  Bond, Timothy J ^a  

^a Finlay Tea Solutions   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Silk Road' and 'Spice Route'; Buddhism and tea, herbal medicine; Cacao, agronomic sensitivity; Caffeine, theobromine; Coffee, as beverage; Foreign fancies, drinks of masses; Plant secondary metabolites; Simple, complex polyphenols; Tea, Camellia sinensis tea, Assam; Tea, coffee, cocoa origins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888714576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347098.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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