The plants used to elaborate the tea are Camellia Sinensis and Camellia Sinensis Assamica. To achieve each type of tea, the shoots and leaves must be subjected to or obviated to different transformation processes.
Some of the most important compounds of the tea leaf and most interesting for the human are: polyphenols, flavonoids, tannins, amino acids such as L-teanin, caffeine, theobromine and theophylline among others.