What is the diff. btwn white & green tea ?

Answer 1

Watch those Lipton Iced Tea commercials...
They are quite educational :)

Answer 2

Here's your answer.......

Green Tea
With green tea, the leaves of the tea plant go through only a minimal amount of fermentation either with steam, which is a traditional Japanese method, or by drying in hot pans which is a Chinese method. Gunpowder tea is a type of green tea in which each tea leaf has been rolled into a small pellet, but this is usually done only with tea leaves of very high quality.

White Tea
White tea is made with young, new growth tea leaves and goes through no fermentation process. White tea contains both leaves and buds of the tea plant whereas the other teas contain mostly just the leaves. Because it contains both the buds and the leaves, dried white tea doesn’t look green but instead has a distinctive pale appearance.

Answer 3

For starters, green tea and white tea come from the same plant which is indigenous to China. Like black tea and oolong tea, they are considered “true” teas. The differences in color, flavor and antioxidant content come from differences in the harvesting and processing of the leaves. Both green and white tea have very mild flavors.

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Answer 4

White tea is buds or young leaves steamed then dried. No mature leaves so no green color. It contains more caffiene than green tea. "Micronutrient Information Center - Tea". Linus Pauling Institute, University of Oregon
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/tea/

Green tea is mature leaves of Camellia sinensis withered then steamed or panfired to inactivate oxidation then dried. This is what the Japanese mean when they say tea.

Answer 5

white tea is made of baby Green Tea leaves. its as simple as that!