Is tea a food? Is tea a food?

1, tea is food. Article 99 of the Food Safety Law defines "food" as: all kinds of finished products and raw materials for human consumption or drinking, as well as articles that are traditionally both food and medicine, but do not include articles for therapeutic purposes.

2. Tea generally refers to the leaves of the evergreen shrub tea tree that can be used to make tea, and the drinks brewed with these leaves. Later, it was extended to all herbal teas brewed with flowers, leaves, seeds and roots of plants, such as "chrysanthemum tea". "Herbal tea" brewed with various medicinal materials is also called Leiya in China literature.