
Learn tea blending as the final step to craft diverse recipes, empower wellbeing, and help professionals avoid bad practices while building a sustainable tea business.
Explore the general concept of tea blending and its role in the tea processing phase, highlighting how blending enables different results across projects and its importance in the tea world.
Explore four tea blending types: tea grades blending for cost, flower and fruit blends for aroma and complexity, herb blends for health, and pure herbal blends for caffeine-free wellness.
Explore how tea factories blend semi-finished products from different origins, seasons, sizes, grades, and shapes to produce a consistent final black tea for market demand.
Harness seasonality to drive tea blending by grading semi-finished teas on buds, leaf size, and aroma. Track batches and 24-hour processing to align spring through winter leaves in final blends.
Learn how tea leaves are sorted by size and grade using screeners and wind machines, producing long, medium, small leaves, buds, and stems for blending.
Discover how tea factories blend final products by season, origin, production processes, batch variations, and leaf quality—balancing aroma, color, and cost for consistent flavor.
Factory tea blending aims for stable quality and reduced costs. Five factors guide blends: leaf size and color, season, origin, production method, and batch, with clear grading for market needs.
Explore factory tea blending type two, adding flowers and fruits after final pure tea blending to elevate the tea blending business.
Trace history of flower tea blending in China from Ming dynasty; note traditional making, growth since the 1950s, and 140,000-ton production by the 1980s under the name cellar incense.
Explore how artificial flavors dominate flavored teas, explaining the difference between natural and artificial essences, their health implications, and the need for authentic, properly grounded tea blending.
Learn how to blend flowers and herbs with tea to support health benefits from traditional Chinese medicine, including liver and kidney health, qi flow, and vitality.
Assess your body's type before blending tea to tailor tonics for yin or yang weaknesses, using four methods and three elements—when, where, who—to achieve balance.
Explore how the five elements: wood, water, fire, metal, earth guide tea blending and balance yin and yang in traditional chinese medicine.
Explore how the body mirrors nature through the five elements, linking organs like liver and heart to wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Learn color and flavor correspondences for wellness.
Balance the Water element with Metal, Earth, and Fire to guide tea blending. Target kidneys, bladder, and ears using winter black foods and salty flavors.
Balance wood element in tea blending by pairing water element teas, like white tea with lemon, to nourish the liver, gallbladder, and eyes, while sesame strengthens metal to balance wood.
Balance the fire element in tea blending by harmonizing wood, water, and metal interactions, using black tea with red, bitter foods, and pairing with blueberries to support heart and tongue.
Learn to blend tea using the 5 elements system, focusing on seasonal, fresh ingredients and personal health needs. Create balanced, individualized blends tailored to your body.
Explore how the 5 elements system reframes tea blending, and learn to brew each tea properly for healing, while embracing confusion as a guide toward deeper tea mastery.
Discover how tea blending mirrors perfume and wine cultures, comparing western and eastern thinking, and applying the 5 elements approach to sustainable, creative tea projects.
Important mention: This tea course has covered accurate subtitles to help you understand deep tea knowledge very clear.
Did you ever hear the story about the master tea blender whose taste buds are insured for £1m by the Tetley tea company? Yes, don’t be surprised. A professional tea blender is very valuable for a big tea company. You could even say they are the key to creating profit for the tea companies. So who is a tea blender? What exactly do they do with the tea?
In this advanced level, ITA certified online tea course, I’m going to explore with you what tea blending is, how it really works for tea companies, and how it earns profits for tea companies around the world.
If you are drinking a cup of tea, or you are planning to have your own tea business, or even if you already have the one, you might really want to know how to create a cup of blended tea for your daily enjoyment, or for your tea business. Hi, I’m Shana Zhang, your host for this course. I have created 3 important foundational levels of tea courses for you, to introduce you to every basic point you need to know about tea. At this advanced level, I’m going to explore the tea blending project with you.
Through this course, you can not only learn the details of how a professional tea blender does its job but also how you can achieve soothing, deep healing relief with the essential skill of blending your own teas. In this online course, you will obtain the key to finding and choosing the right ingredients to blend with tea to achieve a healthy balance based on the ancient traditional Chinese medical theory of the 5 Elements System.
As an extra benefit, this course offers a further deep exploration of the five elements theory which is still used as a tool for grouping objects, and as a method for analyzing changes in natural phenomena, and it’s essential to helping you open the door to tea blending.
From the history of tea blending to creating a sustainable, healthy tea blending practice for yourself, the videos are step by step and easy to follow.
This course specially designed with assignments to develop your own skills at applying tea blending techniques and promoting health and longevity.
Get the ITA Certified Tea Blending and Wellness online course now to help cultivate a healthy, sustainable, and soothing tea life as well as your own successful tea business.
Once you completed 4 of our online courses, we have prepared world-class Milestone Level - ITA Certified Tea Sommelier Certification for you! In the #4 course, we have a quiz at the end, once your answers reach 60% points, you will pass our quiz, our system will release the certification for you automatically! Each certificate will release its own certification ID that no one can copy from you.