Tea Chemistry (1997)

Worth mentioning that though tea does contain polyphenols and flavinoids which are good for us (and l-theanine and caffeine which we enjoy introducing to our nervous systems), it's had a much bigger impact on health historically because it required us to heat water to boiling (or near boiling, depending on what kind of tea you're making).

Also, can't miss a chance to spice things up with the mention of adding salt to brewed tea[1]. Which is heretical, but seems palatable to me, though I probably wouldn't do it to good tea.

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68085304

Experiments on how to make tea (well does milk go in before or after) is the original exposition of statistical testing of the null hypothesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea

of possible interest

George Orwell's 11 rules of tea making

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

quite interesting but I would have expected some insight into the preparation itself as how long do you have to steep, what temperature should the water have, etc