Turmeric Tea

Turmeric tea

Turmeric tea is a kind of tea which originates from Okinawa, in southern Japan. Ukoncha is made of the rhizomes of turmeric.

Turmeric

Turmeric, or Curcuma longa, is a flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae. It is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia that requires temperatures between 20 and 30 °C and high annual rainfall to thrive. Plants are gathered each year for their rhizomes, some for propagation in the following season and some for consumption or dyeing.

Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by infusion of hot or boiling fresh water with fresh or cured leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia that originated in the borderlands of southwestern China, northeast India and northern Myanmar. Tea has a stimulant effect in humans primarily due to its caffeine content.

turmeric

Noun

1. An Indian plant (Curcuma longa), with aromatic rhizomes, part of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).
2. The pulverized rhizome of the turmeric plant, used for flavoring and to add a bright yellow color to food.

tea

Symbol

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Temiar.

Noun

1. The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); a variety of this plant.
2. The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; a variety of such leaves.