Dust (tea)
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'''Dust tea''' is a low-quality grade of fine grained black tea. Traditionally these were treated as the rejects of the manufacturing process in making high quality leaf tea like the [[Orange Pekoe]]. When leaves break or get crushed during the manufacturing process they are variously labelled as [[Broken Orange Pekoe]], [[Fannings]] and dust based on the particle size. The smaller the particle, the lower the quality.
This traditionally low quality tea has however experienced a huge demand in the developing world in the last century as the practice of tea drinking became popular. Cheap [[tea stall]]s in [[India]] and the South Asian sub-continent, and Africa prefer dust tea because it is cheap and also produces a very strong brew - consequently more cups are obtained per measure of tea dust.
== References ==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.plain-t.com/tea_production.htm|title=Tea & Production|publisher=Plain T|accessdate=2006-11-15}}
[[Category:Tea]]